I did my own Yeti challenge

For the cost of a yeti I can bring two cheap coolers, fill one with only blocks of ice, and be good to go for days past the yeti.

 

And still not own a yeti ever. Lol


Ride safe,
AAron

 

Two months ago I spent a week in the desert 4wheeling (Moab) as I try to do every year. It was 100 deg. and my old school Coleman, steel wrapped performed better than a stupid yeti by using one simple trick. Just wrap a couple damn blankets around it! Jeebus, it ain't rocket science. If it stays in your rig, throw your blankets over it and you're good to go.

 

But then you can't put a cool Yeti sticker on your shit.

 

I can send anyone a couple of Yeti stickers I have. $100 plus shipping. lmk.

 

He points them to his tow vehicle!

 

I had a little Yeti lowball mug, someone stole it from my table at a trackday at Tally. Good thing it was a gift in the first place I suppose.

 

He has a Yeti cup . I have about 15 Yeti cups, gave away about 20 as well. One of the guys that works for me in Asia has a brother in law that works for the company that makes them for Yeti. I covered the Yeti symbol with a sticker in protest

 

I don't know if mine came with any sticker but the cooler really doesn't take WERA stickers all that well.

 

Then it is garbage.

 

only thing worse than spending $300+ on a yeti cooler.. is puttin a yeti sticker in your truck window to let everyone know you spent $300+ on one.

My buddy sold me a spare large "yukon" by igloo cooler for $200. It's decent, but still feel violated as many have found, going in and out of a cooler during a race weekend, you are gonna lose ice. I agree that leaving as much water in there as you can does help.

 

But, I don't have a truck.

 

Pelican.

Mine keeps ice for 6days @ 80-90 degrees as long as items going in are cold. If not, 3-4 days. Works great, and no rubber straps to break.

 

which one?

 

I bought this Pelican from Fry's Electronics for $100 (50% off) last week.

Filled it with beer, ice and water at 5 PM on Friday and on Sunday afternoon still had a couple of ice cold beers in it.

It was in the hotel room the whole time. It also has a built in bottle opener.

This thing is strong enough to use as jack stands to hold up your car.

 

It doesn't matter the brand name on the cooler. If you dump 48 cans of beverages that are at garage temperatures then cover them in ice guess what happens. You're ice melts. The second round of ice you throw in will last double or triple the amount of time. It's simple physics.

I always dropped my stuff in the fridge a couple days before it went in the cooler. You should never dump the water until the end of the weekend or unless you are trying to not get wet or develop a hernia loading or unloading the cooler. Surface area contact is better than a bunch of air space.

I was gifted a Yeti cup when we bought the lake lot. If the drink you poor in over the ice is already refrigerated you can leave that cup in the car all day and you'll still have ice in it when you get back in the car. Otherwise the ice melts at the same rate as any other cup with room temperature liquids poured into it.

 

it's simple thermal dynamics

 

Not with dry ice. Try it.