Tack Room with sink and potty...

[ultrarunner]

A friends property is 360 acres and has a hay barn with tack room about a 1/4 mile from the house...

A couple times during the summer he has friends and family over for a BBQ and the kids love the horses...

It never fails every time I'm there... one of the kids... 5 to 13 years old has to go potty... it's a half mile walk round trip.

What would it take to have a functional toilet that might get flushed 40 times a year?

His water tank is nearby and has 10 psi to the stock tank near the hay barn and 50 psi down where the house is.

Home is on Septic and a 1/4 mile away.

I offered to dig a pit we could fill with drain rock...

There is what's left of an old outhouse... the real deal with a wood bench, splinters and all with a half moon cut into the plank board door... not a winner with the kids and they are afraid snakes or what not might be down the hole and probably has not been used in 50 years.

Any ideas for something functional just for convenience sake?

OR

I guess he could buy or rent one of those porto-potties huts?

OR

MINI FLUSH (TM) SELF-CONTAINED FLUSHING TOILET SYSTEM - All Safety Products

OR just park the RV next to the barn which has a holding tank and potty

 

[sseelhoff]

A friends property is 360 acres and has a hay barn with tack room about a 1/4 mile from the house...

A couple times during the summer he has friends and family over for a BBQ and the kids love the horses...

It never fails every time I'm there... one of the kids... 5 to 13 years old has to go potty... it's a half mile walk round trip.

What would it take to have a functional toilet that might get flushed 40 times a year?

His water tank is nearby and has 10 psi to the stock tank near the hay barn and 50 psi down where the house is.

Home is on Septic and a 1/4 mile away.

I offered to dig a pit we could fill with drain rock...

There is what's left of an old outhouse... the real deal with a wood bench, splinters and all with a half moon cut into the plank board door... not a winner with the kids and they are afraid snakes or what not might be down the hole and probably has not been used in 50 years.

Any ideas for something functional just for convenience sake?

OR

I guess he could buy or rent one of those porto-potties huts?

OR

MINI FLUSH (TM) SELF-CONTAINED FLUSHING TOILET SYSTEM - All Safety Products

OR just park the RV next to the barn which has a holding tank and potty

Why a flush toilet? How about a composting toilet or incinerating toilet? No plumbing required.

- I N C I N O L E T -

Envirolet Composting Toilets | "The Premium Choice."

 

[oosik]

Exactly - why all the bother of a flush toilet? Update the existing outhouse. This way you can have the conveniences down at the barn/tack room. @ 40 hits/year an updated outhouse will last into & beyond the 22nd century.

 

[dmccarty]

Why a flush toilet? How about a composting toilet or incinerating toilet? No plumbing required.

- I N C I N O L E T -

Envirolet Composting Toilets | "The Premium Choice."

I did a bit of research on "composting" toilets for use on boats in the last couple of months. People using the toilets on boats have been very happy which surprised me. I think the only negative I saw was in regards to one brand but the person was going to use another "composting" toilet. I don't think composting toilets are really composting poo but instead they are dehydrators. Maybe I missed it somewhere but I have not seen where or how these toilets actually get the solids to a temperature required for composting. This does matter sorta kinda if one is worried about killing stuff in the solids. The company I am going to link too says this about sanitation,

The C-Head system uses a 5-gal plastic bucket with a locking lid and the waste to be discarded is treated with chlorine bleach, laundry detergent or hydrogen peroxide and sealed from public contact using a durable container. This
should meet the spirit of the law, since all pathogens will be killed and the waste rendered harmless.

C-Head portable composting toilets

Their system is really cheap to operate and does not require special parts that might break or get lost. They are using 5 gallon buckets you can get anywhere in the US and most likely in the world. The buckets hold solids and they use a one gallon milk jug, or something similar, to hold pee. Apparently it is urine that stinks so they two are kept apart. The company has toilets for both home and boat use.

Later,
Dan

 

[dave1949]

I think these may be the Cadillac of composting toilets: Clivus Multrum, Inc.: Manufacturer of Composting Toilets and Greywater Systems since 1973

There are smaller units from companies like Sun-Mar. They do actually compost, a heat pad and small fan for forced ventilation are options.
Composting Toilets By Sun-Mar - The Environmental Solution

These units are not cheap to buy. Compared to plumbing and septic system costs, they are less money though.

 

[ultrarunner]

No power at the barn... about a 1/4 mile to bring it in...

On the other hand... it's a straight shot from the home to the barn... if power was trenched in... a line could be trenched to the home septic as it is all a gentle slope down hill from the barn to house.

 

[Panik]

I offered to dig a pit we could fill with drain rock...

That's exactly what the guy we purchased our house from did when he was building. He put up a shop and in the storage room put in a simple shower and toilet that connected to a drain pit. Not eaxactly code, but for me it's nice to have the toilet in my shop for occasional use.

If you can find a composting toilet that's easy to install and maintain then go that route, but the rock pit will likely work for fine for your purposes.

 

[Gary Fowler]

If you have a gently sloping hill all the way to the house septic system, it would be nothing to put in a small septic tank (500 gallon) and then run a gray water line all the way to the home septic. That is how my shop is set up but it is only about 100 steps. He could also put in a grinder pump to pump pressurized gray water down the hill if it has valleys that might trap the water. They are not that expensive and neither is the small septic tank. Digging the trench and cost of the sewer pipe would be the most cost unless you owned a back hoe.

 

[forgeblast]

How often will bit be used? you may just want one of these, Tote-Able Toilet 6 gal w/ 2 Enzyme Packets - Sanitation - Essential Gear they have an enzyme packet with them....looks easy to store and will not take up a lot of room.

 

[aczlan]

We have had one of these (same make, different model) for years: Amazon.com: Thetford 92859 Porta Potti 260B Portable Toilet: Automotive and it has worked well.
You can get septic friendly deodorizer and then you can dump the tank right into the toilet at the house if you want (might want to add a dedicated inlet outside).

Aaron Z