Bought a Pelican at Costco for a pretty good deal, always wanted a Yeti but ended up with the Pelican. It's big and heavy though, don't remember the actual size and I'm too tired to get my ass of the couch right now to go look. I am in the wine business and it kept 20 bottles cold for 3 days on ice with no problem.
Yeti coolers - who has 'em?
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I guess, but I will be happy to replicate the same results, I have this exact $300 Yeti (a 45):
and this exact $40 coleman (a 36qt, also have a 75~):
And I will fill them full of ice for a day, drain them and refill with fresh ice in a now pre-chilled cooler and the coleman will outlast the yeti by way more than 24 hours if both are left untouched in full sun. The following video shows a test of coolers not pre chilled, and found the Engel to be top in ice retention, with the coleman as the best bang for the buck. The Yeti won in no categories, and these guys used to sell them as well. I am sorry to blab on about this, but I spent over $600 on Yeti products a few years ago, when they still made the fiberglass ones (I only have tundras), and they were one of my biggest disappointments, second only to my odyssey battery $1000 debacle. I still use the 45 daily though, as I mainly run 1/2 days and re-ice as needed. My next cooler will likely be a flat-floored Pelican-made in the USA, not china.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-TE4RnqT0U
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Coleman "extreme" was not indicated in your original post, and the statement "half as long as the cheeper(sic) coolers" implies both Coleman and igloo. Coleman extreme does do well, but the lids come off just like igloos and other Coleman's with regular (hard) use. Static ice retention ain't really an indicator to me of performance. Seems to me coolers always f up at the worst possible time (coming home in seas with fish) and ice retention goes WAY down once a lid is gone or the cooler is punctured. This is why I went to yetis, and haven't had the need to look for another cooler since then. I've seen the pelicans and they are nice. If I wasn't full up with coolers, I'd consider one of those too. Although I don't like the rigid handles as I think they would do in a shin easily.
For all interested in upping any coolers performance. Go to you local box store, find one of those plastic Cajun shake fish battering devices, chuck the middle grate in the trash, fill up the halves with water, and place in your deep freeze...ice retention goes WAY up with the addition of "cold" ice disks to any cooler. Rock salt works too, but a little bit goes a long way! it will freeze your beer solid in a hurry.
Coleman "extreme" was not indicated in your original post, and the statement "half as long as the cheeper(sic) coolers" implies both Coleman and igloo. Coleman extreme does do well, but the lids come off just like igloos and other Coleman's with regular (hard) use. Static ice retention ain't really an indicator to me of performance. Seems to me coolers always f up at the worst possible time (coming home in seas with fish) and ice retention goes WAY down once a lid is gone or the cooler is punctured. This is why I went to yetis, and haven't had the need to look for another cooler since then. I've seen the pelicans and they are nice. If I wasn't full up with coolers, I'd consider one of those too. Although I don't like the rigid handles as I think they would do in a shin easily.
For all interested in upping any coolers performance. Go to you local box store, find one of those plastic Cajun shake fish battering devices, chuck the middle grate in the trash, fill up the halves with water, and place in your deep freeze...ice retention goes WAY up with the addition of "cold" ice disks to any cooler. Rock salt works too, but a little bit goes a long way! it will freeze your beer solid in a hurry.
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Yeti's are great coolers and so are Grizzly coolers. Next step down are Engels and then another step down are Pelicans. Just my personal opinion. I own a couple Yeti's and they work great. They are damn expensive but if they were cheap to make, the Chinese would already have the equivalent sitting at Walmart.
Modern Outfitters has them in stock pretty much always. They usually have good prices as well.
Modern Outfitters
With all due respect, your opinion now mirrors my original post. Don't take this as argumentative, I am just trying to clarify my opinion. As I stated originally, "There is no comparison when it comes to construction",and I still use the coolers today, so I feel my opinion is informed. I also stated that with 3 years of hard use the only things to wear were the rubber closures (mostly due to the fact it takes about 50 pounds of force to open the thing if the lid slams shut). But I don't care what model Coleman I compare it to, I expected a $300 cooler with "refrigerator quality seals" to have insulation outperform (or at least keep up with) a cooler that can be had at walmart for under $50. Especially considering that 50% of their slogan is "Keeps Ice Longer!"
I also can appreciate the fact that Yeti is a great Texas company, and totally understand supporting good local companies (I don't even mind the fact that the Yeti cooler is made in Phillipines). But my opinion is they missed the mark with the tundra line, improve the insulation and give it a flat floor so my yuengling bottles can stand up straight before I ice them. I don't hate them, I just wouldn't spend another three bills on one again. Also, another way to vastly improve the cooler's chill factor is to place a small amount of dry ice on the floor of the cooler and cover with a thin layer of cubed ice before filling and icing as normal. I have kept fish frozen for a week like that.
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Yetis are not made in china?!?
Where are yeti coolers made
Our coolers are manufactured in the USA at facilities located in Iowa, Illinois, Ohio as well as at a third facility located in the Philippines. Want a YETI made in the USA? Call us at 512-284-9384 and we’ll make it happen.
As for Ice retention...... I haven't seem a Coleman come close to the yeti.
Where are yeti coolers made
Our coolers are manufactured in the USA at facilities located in Iowa, Illinois, Ohio as well as at a third facility located in the Philippines. Want a YETI made in the USA? Call us at 512-284-9384 and we’ll make it happen.
As for Ice retention...... I haven't seem a Coleman come close to the yeti.
I love my 100qt Brute. Made in the USA and over $100 cheaper than the Yeti. $350 sitting on my doorstep.
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