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is owning a Harvest Right large freeze
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dryer like the one behind me a great fit
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for you if you're looking to start a
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freeze drying business of your own we're
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going to answer that in this video let's
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get to it if you are just starting out
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looking at freeze drying as a business
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and you don't own a freeze dryer at all
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I'd start off with the Harvest Right
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large freeze dry and get the stainless
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steel one like the one behind me it
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allows you to be in a commercial kitchen
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and harvest R is looking at being a NSF
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compliant freeze dryer equipment so
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that's a really good thing to have
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second if you you already own a freeze
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dryer and you already have a freeze
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drying business but you're trying to
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drum up more and more business and you
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need another freeze dryer I would
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suggest going with the XL which would
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allow you to accelerate that product
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capacity every time you click Start on
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that freeze dryer Harvest right right
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now is having a Black Friday sale it's
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$500 off any freeze dryer you can use my
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referral link Down Below in the video
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description of this video and it'll take
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you directly to harvest where you can
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purchase from their website the Harvest
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rri freeze dryer comes with a full
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oneyear warranty then they have a 3-year
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limited warranty and that limited
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warranty you can find in their website
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of what that all entails it's very basic
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you just need to make sure you're
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changing the oil correctly making sure
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you're maintaining it cleaning the
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freeze dryer things like that all right
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now that we've got the short and Suite
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all done let me introduce myself my name
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is David I'm a freeze dry business owner
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in Idaho I've owned my business since
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early 2020 and I've owned this freeze
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dryer right behind me for almost that
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entire period of time it's the Harvest
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Right large freeze dryer it's really
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benefited my my business I'm going to
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review the pros and cons I'm also going
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to give you my review of what the
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benefits are for a Harvest Right freeze
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dryer if you're going to operate a
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business for yourself and then I'm also
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going to give you just My overall
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recommendations for what size you should
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get I've got this handy little list to
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keep me on track for this video so let's
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get to it they are the number one leader
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in home freeze dryers they ship out
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thousands of freeze dryers every single
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month to people who are using it for
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home use as well as people who own a
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freeze drying business and in fact
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they've really focused all of their
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freeze dryers and a lot of their support
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on people who are operating a freeze
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drying business if you haven't followed
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their Facebook page or Instagram or even
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subscribed to their newsletters they're
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very focused on both the home freeze
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dryer and people who are operating a
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business and that's why they've made
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different software updates that include
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candy mode as of a couple years ago to
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focus on people who are doing that so I
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really like that they're kind of
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tailoring to both ends of the target
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audience now since they are the leader
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in home freeze dryers as well as hobby
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freeze drying for businesses they have a
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really good support and I found that the
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technical support team has been very
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responsive sometimes their response rate
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is a little bit slower than maybe you
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might like but at least they have
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someone that you can talk to and you can
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call a number directly and get a ticket
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submitted and they're providing that
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support now in my experience I've always
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found that they've done the best thing
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for me so they've looked at replacing
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the part or whatever and looked at the
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warranty for first they've also looked
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at the part to see if it's covered and
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they would just replace it for free or
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just give me a discount they really want
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your freeze dryer to operate for you and
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not be stuck in some type of error mode
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or crashing coming from someone who's
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owned a freeze dryer by Harvest Right
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for over 3 years I can say that their
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support has been very good compared to
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everybody else that's out there right
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now all right let's talk about the sizes
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of the Harvest Right freeze dryer now
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they have four different sizes of freeze
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dryers which a lot of the other
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manufacturers out there that are making
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freeze dryers don't have right now most
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of them just have on size model Harvest
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Right has a small medium large and a XL
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that they released earlier this year in
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2023 now the small has a capacity of up
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to about maybe 6 to 8 lb and then you
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get up to the medium which is around 12
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lb and then you also have the large we
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could get up to about I'd say 16 or 18
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that's based on my experience they say
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that you can get above 20 lbs but I've
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really only been able to get about 16
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lbs of food and then the XL can get up
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to 36 lb 36 lb of food in that XL and
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believe me I've done a couple videos on
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that Xcel if you want to check out the
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specifications it's huge the trays are
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huge and believe me you can definitely
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get that amount of capacity all righty
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so what do these Harvest Right freeze
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dryers cost based on each size well I've
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got my Nifty little phone right here and
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I've got the Harvest Right website
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pulled up the small pro version of
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Harvest Right will run you about 207
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$700 medium Pro is going to run you
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around 3,300 the large is going to run
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you up to 4,000 and then the XL is going
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to run you close to $5,200 for that pro
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version now Harvest R increased the
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pricing on all these freeze dryers
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because the pro version that was
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released earlier this summer was
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released with more trays that you can
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put into the freeze dryers per version
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valuable for you whether you own a
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freeze dryer you're looking at buying
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one all right let's go through the pros
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of a Harvest Right freeze dryer if
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you're going to operate a business and
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even if you're watching this as someone
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who's just interested in owning a home
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freeze dryer this can pertain to you as
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well number one is accessibility Harvest
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Rite has a huge reseller Network right
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now where you can buy both in retail
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establishments in your local area you
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can buy from Home Depot and you can also
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buy direct from Harvest some of the
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benefits of buying direct from Harvest
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is that you can talk to a rep directly
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on the phone and I found that going
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direct with them actually benefits you a
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lot but you can always support your
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local reseller in your area and if you
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want to buy direct through their website
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you can go ahead and click the referral
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link below it'll take you to the website
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and also give you the sales number where
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you can talk to somebody directly number
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two is they've really started to focus
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on the business side of their home
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freeze dryer use a lot of people are
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starting to have freeze drying candy
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businesses freeze drying businesses both
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large and small and they've really
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upgraded the software like candy mode in
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their freeze dryers to make sure that
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they're satisfying that type of Niche
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audience that they have I think that's
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really great because they can actually
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relate to someone like me and yourself
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who is going to be operating a business
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and need these things running constantly
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especially when it comes down to some
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type of error or issue and speaking of
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errors and issues I brought up this in
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the short version of the review which is
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their support I think that they have
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really good support because of my
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personal experience using them but I
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really like that they actually are
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investing in people employment people
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that can answer the phone and get your
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ticket actually picked up and resolved
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versus some of the other manufacturers
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are still growing and they probably will
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have support in the future that can do
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just what Harvest Right does but I think
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that Harvest Right support is doing the
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best in the industry right now now
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owning a harvester at freeze dryer
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you're going to want to know about the
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warranty and I think the warranty is
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really strong for Harvest Right number
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one is they have a one-year full
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warranty on the machine the pump and the
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parts which is awesome that means they
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have full confidence in their machine
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for an entire year and even if it does
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break down or has some type of issue
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they're going to replace that for you at
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full cost you don't have to pay a dime
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the second part of the warranty is a
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3-year limited warranty now that still
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covers a wide variety of areas of the
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machine and the pump you have to do your
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own responsibility of owning that freeze
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dryer so you got to do regular
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maintenance of the oil you got to make
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sure it's clean and they have ways of
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looking at that because they do want you
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to update the software regularly when
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they come up with the release date of
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that software and last on the list of
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Pros is if you want to exit out of doing
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a freeze drying business or you want to
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sell a freeze dryer and get some type of
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upgrade like the XL the resell on freeze
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dryers I think is really really strong
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especially for the Harvest DPE because
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it does have that 3year limited warranty
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and those people buying the used machine
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from you do really appreciate having the
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limited warranty still attached to the
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machine all right not everything can be
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positive about a machine like this so
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let's get to the cons one is I talked
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about the software they have a lot of
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software updates that they say improves
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the machine whenever something's kind of
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consistent with the machines breaking
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down like a vacuum pressure error or
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something to do with the heating trays
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things like that once it guilds up to
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enough to where they need to fix that
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bug they require you to update the
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software on the machine now the software
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previously prior to the update might be
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working really well for you and you
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don't want to upgrade but under the
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warranty and things like that they
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really want you to upgrade and I feel
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like that's just kind of a con because
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if I don't upgrade it should still be
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able to run the way I want it to and I
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just think updating your machine with
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the new software pretty regularly like
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they come out with is just unnecessary
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and I think they could reduce that down
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to maybe just once a year something like
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that now another con is the parts and
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supplies have been a little bit subpar
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in terms of breaking down or they've
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been a little bit cheap on the part side
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and the reason I'm saying that is
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because they have been producing a huge
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amount of freeze dryers for the past 3 4
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years ever since the pandemic and that
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means that sometimes it's going to hurt
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the quality assurance and the quality
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checks of all their machines going out
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they're shipping out thousands a month I
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don't blame them for that because
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they're trying to get as many machines
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out there but at the same time they
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could really work on the parts that
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they're putting in here and so when it
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kind of breaks down you're having to
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replace it's kind of just a pain in the
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butt so I think that they could do a
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better job on the parts and supplies for
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example sometimes the hose for draining
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all the water out of your machine gets
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cracked and it's just kind of a cheap
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hose there's also just some plastic
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pieces and I just recently had to
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replace the fan and the condenser motor
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which you can check out that video if
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you'd like to that I posted recently
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there's just a lot of nuances but
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overall the machine is an appliance it's
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going to have to have Replacements and
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have some different parts and issues and
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repairs so I don't blame them entirely
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on that I just think that they could
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have little bit better Parts moving
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forward also speaking of parts and just
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error messages is you're going to have
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to be used to in these machines the fact
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that there is going to be some vacuum
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pressure error messages and the
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inadequate vacuum error is the most
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common out of these machines just
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because there's a lot of different
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components that go into making sure that
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that amount of vacuum pressure is is
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sustained throughout that whole drying
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process if some type of bearing or some
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type of the hose or something has a very
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small leak that you don't really hear or
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see and that inadequate vacuum error
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message is something that you are going
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to have to know about and it is a con of
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the machines is that happens pretty
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often in my opinion that's the end of
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the con section of this video for the
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Harvest DED freeze dryer check out my
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latest video on The Ultimate Guide to
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starting a freeze drying business I'm
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going to include that link up here and
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you can go straight to that video and
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and see the different things that you
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need to equip yourself to be successful
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now let's get to the conclusion and my
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recommendations for the Harvest Right
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freeze dryer one the warranty I think
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that the Harvest Right freeze dryer has
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a great warranty again it's a one-year
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warranty and then a 3-year limited
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warranty they also have a great support
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for freeze drying business owners that
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is a huge segment for their business
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because we are all buying multiple
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freeze dryers for them we're not just
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buying it for home use so they are very
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dedicated to that thirdly they are
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having a huge black Friday special right
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now all the way through November and as
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of this video this is in 2023 this is a
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great time to buy a freeze dryer right
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now even if you're watching this video
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in 2024 or in a future you know 2030s
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decade you can check out the Harvest
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Right freeze dryer at any point to see
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if they have specials using my referral
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link below in the video description hey
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if you stuck around this long in this
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video towards the tail in I just want to
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thank you for watching this video and
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also supporting my YouTube channel this
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whole channel was built off the fact
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that I didn't have the videos and the
12:03
tools and resources from someone like
12:05
myself telling me what to do the
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pitfalls the things that are going to
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make me the most successful in my
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business back in 2020 when I started my
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freeze drying business there is so much
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more technology now in freeze drying
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that can help accelerate your business
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thank you for watching thank you for
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being a subscriber I hope all the video
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content here is helpful for you and if
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it is comment below and I'd love to know
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what I can expand on as well as hit the
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like button so that I know whether this
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was helpful for you in your freeze dry
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business do something great in your
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community using the business and I'll
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see you in the next video on The
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