Keeping your cooler off the ground?

[streetartsquirrel]

Going to be bringing 2 coolers and was curious how important it is to keep them off the ground to avoid the conducting heat.

I would need something that can hold ~75 lbs of weight.

Thought about using bricks but i was afraid heat could transfer through brick (like a brick oven). Thought about using the storage bins I will be bringing for random supplies but dont want to have to lift up the cooler each time I need access to the bin.

[TT120]

I use a couple short pieces of 2x4's. Maybe 18" long.

[lucky420]

lots of people use wood, as in 2x4's 2x6's

[misfit]

we use a coleman collapsible bench. light weight and goes right into a bag for traveling. holds 250 lbs. room for storage under the bench.

[Ratty]

I use those 6 inch tall crates that liquor stores get their liter bottles in. Very strong. I don't recommend stealing them but they are very easy to find. Just ask around.

[smiffman]

I use those 6 inch tall crates that liquor stores get their liter bottles in. Very strong. I don't recommend stealing them but they are very easy to find. Just ask around.

Hahaha I just liberated some of these for some ghetto bike baskets but cooler stand works too, damn now I need some more.

[remi]

I try using something I'm already bringing up. Dual purpose items save spot. Ex. I use our geo-dome pole boxes as bench seats (turn the upside down, good to go.)
We use a ramp to load/unload stuff from trailer and this ramp is also the item that our entire camp uses to keep the coolers off the ground in the shaded kitchen area.

[Popeye]

Empty beer cans. You'll have them anyway

[GreyCoyote]

Empty beer cans. You'll have them anyway

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[chuckularone]

Empty beer cans. You'll have them anyway

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Ahhh, yup..

[Canoe]

More important if they're in the sun, or nearby ground is in the sun. But you don't want your coolers in the sun, or in line-of-sight to sun-baked ground that is radiating heat - but you'll still have the hot air (unless they're inside a cooled yurt or something). Which is why you want to search for the threads on how to make your cooler more efficient (old school blanket wrap through to modern insulation and/or radiant barriers). Details have included how to rig 2x4s and such, including how to do it so your cooler can sit under a camp kitchen table, sliding out when you need access (cooler sliding on plastic food serving trays?).

For large camps cooking for many and camps serving items to the public, the BRC health rules have required that coolers be raised up off the playa. I assume that's the same this year (but I haven't checked).

[MyDearFriend]

Sawed-off blocks of 2x4 keep my coolers off the ground. Thanks, Ygmir!

Bi-layer slip covers, fleece inside something shiny, also help quite a bit, as does shade that allows ground-level air-flow, in other words has a 6-12 inch gap along the ground on all sides. (This also reduces dust accumulation).

[trilobyte]

We do little cooler tables made from 2x4's and a plank of OSB (cheap plywood). This gets the coolers off the ground by a wide margin, and we use the space underneath for campmates to keep bins or boxes with stuff that doesn't need refrigeration.

[Corvus]

I'm in a camp of some 200 people so we got lots-n-lots of coolers. We use pallets.

[motskyroonmatick]

I've had bad luck using wool blankets on coolers in the sun. They seemed to capture the heat. Now I have a huge foil backed insulation box that I keep them in.

[Canoe]

... has a 6-12 inch gap along the ground on all sides. (This also reduces dust accumulation).

And hence reduces exposure to playa soil contaminants, including

... aquatic micro-fauna eggs or dead body parts, bacteria normally on the playa, bacteria deposited by migratory birds, bacteria blown in off of surrounding land or the bacteria in the water that the water trucks spray on the dusty BRC roads.