Setting the Outhouse

[WEJ]

Hey everyone,

Here are some pictures of my latest adventure with the Montana. I needed an outhouse on our back place. I wanted it to be authentic, so I built it out of old barn boards. I did not realize how HEAVY it would turn out. No matter. The 4340 handled it like it was made out of balsa wood!!

[Egon]

How deep is the hole.

Uh, is the seat heated for winter use??

Will Halloween be a problem? or will you move it from the hole a few feet for the evening??

[Slacker]

Nice pictures. Not to be nit-picky but isn't it risky placing the privy uphill from your pond? I'd worry about it as my dogs swim in my ponds.

[WEJ]

Egon,

The hole is about 4 ft. deep. The seat is heated in the summer and very cool in the winter, and Halloween.... Egon, would you really do something like that!!

Slacker,

The ponds are several hundred yards away, so I am not too concerned. They are FULL of Bass, Bluegill, and Catfish. Actually that is why I put it where I did. I know it is a long walk to get there but I did want to keep it away from the ponds.

[Egon]

It was a common Halloween practice as was moving the small house. It was always a challenge on who would get what!

Throw some lime in to for odor control.

[Unclebuck257]

I personally think the future has a lot of crap in it for your new project!! LMBO!!

On another thought, your friends must be different than mine. With my buddies, I'd need an 8 ft deep hole!! (Sometimes the truth hurts!!)

[Stampeder]

WEJ:

In case you haven't settled on the correct size for the hole in the seat yet, I have a suggestion. Years ago my brother-in-law was building such a building. He didn't know how large to make the whole as he had grown ups plus young children using it. His neighbour came over and told him to take long wide board and make holes of different sizes that way you just slide the board along to the one that suits you best. Remember though to slide it to a much smaller one than you actually used before you leave the building........

Cheers.
Glenn

[MikeD74T]

[quote=WEJ]The hole is about 4 ft. deep. The seat is heated in the summer and very cool in the winter,

At hunting camp the seat hangs on a nail behind the wood stove. Serves two purposes -indication of outhouse occupancy without leaving the camp, and a much more pleasurable experience in freezing weather. MikeD74T

[tommu56]

as the old saying goes they are 500 ft too close in the Summer
and 500 ft to far away in the winter!

tommu

[Bird]

I have a book, Doug Lindstrand's Alaskan Sketchbook, which contains marvelous both sketches and photographs of his. It also contains a good portion of his journal. He spent a number of winters in the Alaskan wilderness and in one place mentions that he found the secret to instant comfort in the outhouse in the winter; "STYROFOAM TOILET SEATS!"