Do you know if the shelves have a can rotating system or are they just the simple-flat metal shelves?
I believe that they are just plain, sturdy shelves. Placed perpendicular to the wall with room to walk in between shelving units, then you can just take from the 'front' of the shelf and put new product at the 'back', moving stuff up as you go.
Then you can spend the money you saved on more Preps! 😉
The rolling slant shelf is easy enough to build. With a couple partial sheets of ¼ “ plywood and some long dowel or whatever that you have to make supports with. The wood needs to be installed at a 10 degrees slant. The receiving sheet should be a can+¼ longer than the top. The type that you could get for canned pop. 
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I am heading out for Deer this Saturday so any info on How to properly to the deer meat would be very appricated. Would not mind trying some.
Rather than starting another topic on storing food, I thought I'd just put my question under this topic. 🙂 I hope nobody minds.
Does anybody have experience in storing carrots/potatoes(anything else) in rubbermaid containers filled with sand over the winter months? I don't have a cold room/cellar in my basement so I'm looking for other options other than canning.
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Where were you thinking of storing your rubbermaid containers because I believe that it is temperature that is the major problem.
Sorry, my grandparents did that according to my mother, but I am still about a year away from trying that type of storage. One piece of advice I have had is that the sand needs to be VERY dry. Temperature is also an issue. A cold room about 34-40deg.f. is needed for this type of storage, where canned goods can be stores as warm as 60-70 deg.f.
Canned is easier to maintain, but much more labor intensive.
Where were you thinking of storing your rubbermaid containers because I believe that it is temperature that is the major problem.
I'd like to store the rubbermaid containers in my basement furnace room which is cool. I'm still in the process of learning about temperature and which sand is best.
Rather than rubber maids, I have a buddy who does this in her cold room with wooden boxes. She got her carpenter husband to make boxes, 2 x 3 feet and 16" deep and has lids for them as well. I think she used cedar but I'll ask. I know there's holes drilled in the tops and screen tacked onto it so no creepy-crawlies can get in. She puts down 3" of sand, then lines up the carrots standing straight up (there's still a bit of green attached to each), covers them up with more sand just so and inch and the tops are showing and voila! I'll ask her if she waters the sand as well because I can't remember.
She got the idea from here: http://www.savefoodfromthefridge.com when she and her husband were looking for an alternative to a fridge. Pretty neat concept!
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If it is a cool room furnace room it should be ok. Then it may depend on what you call cool, the cooler the better, anything cooler than 50F should be ok. Let's see if anyone has more to add on the ideal temperature.