barn toilet

Filup · Mar 28, 2005

I want to place a toilet in my barn but I dont want to go to the expense of putting in a septic tank and leach lines. Does anyone have any experience with the incinolet waste burning toilet or another non water toilet?

Bird · Mar 28, 2005

No experience with those, but have you also considered a Macerator system to pump it to your existing sewer through a small pipe. One of my brothers had his home on 10 acres and our other brother came to live on the property in his motorhome and that's what they did; put in a macerator system; much cheaper than a second septic system. Disclaimer: I know nothing of the particular system or brand in the link provided. It just happened to be the first one I came to.

Cactus · Mar 30, 2005

These work good ,very inexpensive,easy to find , portable and reusable.
Portable toilet

poorboy · Mar 31, 2005

If you go the bucket route please mark it as so if you put a lid on it. I used a drywall bucket when we were building and left it in the closet. Two weeks later I checked to see what was in it (definetly a DUH moment) and threw up immediatey and I don't usually get sick unless from way too much drink.

Poorboy

btolle · Mar 31, 2005

I thought that was why we live in the woods. I was thinking about painting a sign by the left front tire of my Kubota that says "Employee restroom".

As an interrim measure, I once went out on a fishing boat and they had a board with a hole in it and a 5 gallon bucket below. They dumped some Pine-Sol in it and that seemed to take care of the odors.

Bill Tolle

PineRidge · Mar 31, 2005

<font color="blue">As an interrim measure, I once went out on a fishing boat and they had a board with a hole in it and a 5 gallon bucket below. They dumped some Pine-Sol in it and that seemed to take care of the odors.
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Bill that's way too much information for me to handle. Information overload..... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

bgott · Apr 1, 2005

When I worked the grouper boats out of Madera Beach, FL. we wouldn't use the built in head because of the stink that would build up. One day, if y'all are really curious, I'll explain the intricacies of using a 5 gallon bucket on the stern deck of a 47' boat in a 25' quartering sea. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

dmccarty · Apr 1, 2005

bgott,

My dads old 33' sail boat had a head that sometimes would not work. When the head was down for repairs we had to use the next best thing, the LGB.

The LGB was the Little Gray Bucket. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif The LGB was a small bucket with a line attached.

I almost lost the LGB one day when I tossed the LGB overboard to clean it out. I did not realize how much power there was in a boat moving even at 5 knots. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif The LGB line almost got away from me. There would have been a very unhappy crew without the LGB! There may have been muntiny and I might have had to walk the plank. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Later,
Dan

SnowRidge · Apr 1, 2005

<font color="blue"> There would have been a very unhappy crew without the LGB! </font>

Then they would have had to do it the European way: hang backwards from the shrouds. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bob_Skurka · Apr 1, 2005

Last summer we rented a pontoon boat on Lake Delavan, WI and went fishing. There were a few families on the boat. My buddy jumped into the lake, hung on the back of the boat (it was stopped, engine off) looked up at his mother in law and said "WOW Mary Lou the water is really warm right here, jump in!" /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif