Outhouse for convenience

[Guygruters]

What is the best outhouse design for remote end of farm - something fairly good looking.

 

[BHD]

this thread looks about as good as any
The Outhouse Thread!

one could get creative and go some thing like this

and depending on neighbors be the way to go.

 

[stuckmotor]

Guy,
If you build an outhouse beware of black widow spiders beneath the seat. They have a reputation for attacking body parts that hang down there. :shocked:
That's right, I'm the spider bite police.

 

[Guygruters]

Guy,
If you build an outhouse beware of black widow spiders beneath the seat. They have a reputation for attacking body parts that hang down there. :shocked:
That's right, I'm the spider bite police.

I will ... Review ... The situation ... Very carefully each time! Thanks!

 

[Gary Fowler]

I just whip it out and pee behind the tractor or whatever when I need to. Not much view from any direction by neighbors anyway.

 

[Looking4new]

I have a bumper dumper that fits in my 2" receiver hitch. You can fasten a plastic grocery store carry out bag to it, if you are concerned about solids on the land.
Portable toilet for the outdoorsman.

 

[EddieWalker]

I watch several online auctions and was bidding on a fairly new plastic porta potty. I dropped out at $200 when it jumped up to over a grand. I didn't want or need it, but it was $40 when I first saw it and couldn't walk away from at least trying to get it. Since then I've thought that I'd sure like to have won that auction, but still think a grand is more then I'm comfortable spending, so I'm still looking.

Eddie

 

[Egon]

You want comfort or just rudimentary?

 

[/pine]

I watch several online auctions and was bidding on a fairly new plastic porta potty. I dropped out at $200 when it jumped up to over a grand. I didn't want or need it, but it was $40 when I first saw it and couldn't walk away from at least trying to get it. Since then I've thought that I'd sure like to have won that auction, but still think a grand is more then I'm comfortable spending, so I'm still looking.

Eddie

Wouldn't something like a composting toilet work out better than a chemical pot that needs emptying with a pump etc?

 

[BHD]

Wouldn't something like a composting toilet work out better than a chemical pot that needs emptying with a pump etc?

Like a hole in the ground,

 

[/pine]

Like a hole in the ground,

not if you live downwind...!

 

[weedpharma]

I have a home brew composting toilet on my weekend farm. It has been in use for about 4 years before I emptied it a few weeks ago. I simply dug a good size hole and built a small shed over it. I then got some formwork ply as a floor. The throne is a 20ltr drum with the bottom cut out with a box built around it. This is screwed to the floor which has the appropriate cut out.

It has a chimney coming from under the floor with two 12v computer fans. One is attached to a small PV panel and the other to a controller that turns the fan on for 1 minute every 10 minutes. This is powered up when I turn on the battery bank for my camp.

Next to the throne is a bucket of sawdust. You can work out what this is for!

The picture looks like someone needs to improve their aim but is simply because the hole in the floor is not big enough and moisture dribbles down the inside onto the floor. The new floor is better!

This has handled weekends with over 20 people without any complaints of smell. The material removed was just crumbly compost that I buried nearby in the bush.

Weedpharma

 

[bigtiller]

You probably will need a permit for a working outhouse and they are about as easy to buy as hen's teeth. I think I would build something that looks like a small portable shed. It'd be less likely that the DNR would be interested that way.

 

[weedpharma]

The local council may not allow mine as a fitting in a residence but this is just a weekender.

If this "shed" is built in the back paddock for ocassional use I would not expect any problems. It beats digging a hole every time.

Weedpharma

 

[grnspot110]

I built my own, mostly with used lumber:





Hole in the ground is lined with an old water heater tank with the ends cut out. Toss a little wood ash in the hole occasionally for odor control. ~~ Lowell

 

[oldballs]

Seems like it depends on who and how often the convenience is needed. If it was just me on the back of the "farm" a bucket with a seat adapter, a couple tires over a hole, a log.......just about anything would do er do do.