[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How does an Out House work? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/4/2009 2:44:55 PM EDT
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I was just thinking... wouldn't the hole you dug eventually become full? |
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You are supposed to put lime or something in the hole to promote breakdown of the "congressman" to make room for more. This. It breaks down. Bacteria, maggots, etc. Kinda like a septic tank They don't go moving those shit houses in state parks every few years... |
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I was just thinking... wouldn't the hole you dug eventually become full? That's when you call in an expert... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8cVYg7RNx4 |
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You are supposed to put lime or something in the hole to promote breakdown of the "congressman" to make room for more. It's Lye not Lime. Lime is calcium carbonate. Lye is caustic soda. Big difference. Ya, one would be way worse if you left it sitting on the seat... sweaty butt plus lye=pain! |
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I've never lived with one but from what I have seen it goes something like this:
Dig big hole. Cover big hole with wood. Cut hole in wood. Put something you can sit on over hole and make a hole in it. Attach toilet seat. Enclose for privacy and to keep wildlife out. Add lime on occasion. After a few years cover it all up and plant some trees there to mark the spot and start over. |
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I've never lived with one but from what I have seen it goes something like this: Dig big hole. Cover big hole with wood. Cut hole in wood. Put something you can sit on over hole and make a hole in it. Attach toilet seat. Enclose for privacy and to keep wildlife out. Add lime on occasion. After a few years cover it all up and plant some trees there to mark the spot and start over. this |
Wish that the guys who maintain the porta-johns on Kunsan AFB in Korea would read this thread. Where we would set the FARP up at for the overwater Hellfire shoots, there were three permanent porta-johns...but they had not been cleaned since WWII or something. Imagine opening the door to a white porta-john and seeing that the inside is brown! Hands down the worst god-awful small I have ever smelled! The most disturbing thing was the spider that had taken up residence in one of them...I swear to God that it was easily as big as my hand...BEFORE it spread out its legs! One of my buddies poked at it with a stick, and it took the stick away from him...
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There's money to be made if you know where the old privies were located. The Privy Diggers go around and dig up the old sites and find cool, er, shit.
Eye Candy There was a great display at the Children's Museum in St. Louis. efxguy |
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Quoted:The most disturbing thing was the spider that had taken up residence in one of them...I swear to God that it was easily as big as my hand...BEFORE it spread out its legs! One of my buddies poked at it with a stick, and it took the stick away from him...
That made me laugh. 
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Wish that the guys who maintain the porta-johns on Kunsan AFB in Korea would read this thread. Where we would set the FARP up at for the overwater Hellfire shoots, there were three permanent porta-johns...but they had not been cleaned since WWII or something. Imagine opening the door to a white porta-john and seeing that the inside is brown! Hands down the worst god-awful small I have ever smelled! The most disturbing thing was the spider that had taken up residence in one of them...I swear to God that it was easily as big as my hand...BEFORE it spread out its legs! One of my buddies poked at it with a stick, and it took the stick away from him... 
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My dad's place in the mountains has an outhouse, it's been in the same place for 65 years.
It's never been moved, although it's not been used every day. Dad kept a can of lime and a can of potash and dumped in a scoop every couple of weeks. The county outlawed the use of outhouses in his area, he kept it there and turned it into a small storage shed, that's what he told them. He used it up until the day he could no longer walk outside. |
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LOL ... I'm dying here! 
My grandparents never had indoor plumbing, nor did many of my older relatives in the 60's and 70's. I can't imagine anyone not knowing about outhouses, never thought about it. That's great! Reminds me of the manager in the balloon and engineer on the ground giving directions. Back to the OP, Not that easy, people have died from "your doing it wrong", seeps into the water table, bad news. |
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LOL ... I'm dying here!
My grandparents never had indoor plumbing, nor did many of my older relatives in the 60's and 70's. I can't imagine anyone not knowing about outhouses, never thought about it. That's great! Reminds me of the manager in the balloon and engineer on the ground giving directions. Back to the OP, Not that easy, people have died from "your doing it wrong", seeps into the water table, bad news. Well shit (no pun) I was trying to quote subnets outhouse and hit the wrong quote button. New format needs some work. |
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The best shitter tale -
I worked in Antarctica with the Navy for 4 years. On the ice runway (seasonal ice) and Williams Field (permanent ice) they used the "Super Shitter". They would come out, drill a hole in the ice to the water, set the super shitter over it (4 holer, 2 for men, 2 for women) and it was good to go. The ice runway's ice was only 4-8 feet thick while Williams Field's ice was 8-15 feet thick. You could get frostbite on your ass if you sat on the super shitter too long, especially at Williams Field. Every now and then on the ice runway a Leopard Seal or a Weddell Seal would poke up through the hole, most of the time when someone was using it. You would be sitting there and all the sudden you would hear the water being disturbed and then the sound of a seal exhaling very loudly, sometimes followed by a seal "bark" or just the seal making noises. That would scare the crap out of everyone. Is was funny because when it happened to the women you could hear them scream for miles. 
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Not OSHA approved...wait... It is good.... No, GREAT.... NO HANDRAILS!!! |
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You are supposed to put lime or something in the hole to promote breakdown of the "congressman" to make room for more. This. It breaks down. Bacteria, maggots, etc. Kinda like a septic tank They don't go moving those shit houses in state parks every few years... Think of it as an open septic tank. You get to enjoy the smell with every piss and poop. It also makes you think twice about not holding it in on those cold rainy nights. 
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LOL ... I'm dying here!
My grandparents never had indoor plumbing, nor did many of my older relatives in the 60's and 70's. I can't imagine anyone not knowing about outhouses, never thought about it. That's great! Reminds me of the manager in the balloon and engineer on the ground giving directions. Back to the OP, Not that easy, people have died from "your doing it wrong", seeps into the water table, bad news. Well shit (no pun) I was trying to quote subnets outhouse and hit the wrong quote button. New format needs some work. Because you're inept? 
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City slickers.
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LOL ... I'm dying here!
My grandparents never had indoor plumbing, nor did many of my older relatives in the 60's and 70's. I can't imagine anyone not knowing about outhouses, never thought about it. That's great! Reminds me of the manager in the balloon and engineer on the ground giving directions. Back to the OP, Not that easy, people have died from "your doing it wrong", seeps into the water table, bad news. Well shit (no pun) I was trying to quote subnets outhouse and hit the wrong quote button. New format needs some work. Because you're inept? Like I'm the first one, just to lazy to fix it myself. Please. |
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As usual you guys don't know shit!!!!
Only morons moved their outhouses when full. Did you ever hear of the term "Honey dipping"? Thats when you got a shovel and a five gallon bucket and spent a few hours digging the shit out of the original hole. You city boys! |
