expirediconian | Staff posted Feb 29, 2024 08:45 PM
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expirediconian | Staff posted Feb 29, 2024 08:45 PM
Pelican Elite Coolers (Various Colors): 70-Quart $200, 50-Quart
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An igloo marine or an igloo max cool can keep ice for nearly as long, cost 1/3rd as much, and are far lighter.
Unless your specific use case needs ice for 5 days OR you need the thing to be used as a chair(like on a boat), I just dont see much reason for this. Might as well just save your money. Or are you going on week long camping excursions regularly?
If you made a traditional foam insulation cooler as thick as a rotomolded cooler, I actually think it would probably be a better insulator.
If you want the BMW of coolers, buy this: https://www.amazon.com/YETI-Stain...B0842BVBPP [amazon.com]
https://www.bmw.com/en-au/offers-...g-bag.html
the key to all of this that so many forget, is to use a sacrificial bag of ice prior to the trip, to pre-cool the cooler. we do this the night before we leave.
then toss that, fill with new ice and your contents, and you're set for literally days
i totally get the need for products geared towards overlanding, expeditions, safaris, wilderness excursions, and the like. stuff gets beat to hell. and a lot of equipment like this has lifetime guarantees. and i know military uses a lot of pelican products.
for almost everyone deal hunting on SD though, this thing is complete and utter overkill. even if you use a cooler weekly on boating trips for fishing, those coleman/igloo marine ones are perfectly sufficient, and can be had for under $50. and the "XTreme" ones for even less.
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That was my point. Rotomolding is expensive. It has a lot of structural benefits, but it is expensive.
However, with regards to coolers, Both old-school coolers and rotomolded coolers use foam to achieve their insulation. However, the rotomolded coolers use a different type of plastic to encapsulate the foam which is thicker/heavier/stronger. From an ice storage perspective, there shouldn't be any difference between them performance wise if foam is equally thick
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The 70Q is super heavy when filled with ice and drinks. SUPER heavy. If I had my time back I might go with a cooler of the same size that had a different handle style. The solid handles on the Pelican make it cumbersome for one person to lift this cooler, even when empty.
But this cooler is very high quality - it will survive pretty much anything you can do to it. Mine tumbled about 30 feet down a steep incline full of ice and never even opened.
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