Show Your Outhouse

[HomeBrew2]

Well done! Cheers!!! Nice machine, and use of it!

 

[scott_vt]

Another country heard from /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks Gunnar, great add on to this post /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Looks like Ivar got a bit too much sun that day, but Im sure the cognac took care of any discomfort /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

scotty

 

[RonR]

Well, I'd have to really dig to find the pic, but here's the story:

When we cleaned up GrandDad's farm in the early 80's, and it was a HUGE mess as he never threw anything away, anyway, we had tons of stuff left over after the two day farm auction.

Had to wait 30 days for the purchasers to haul off their stuff. What it looked like was a bomb went off. People had purchased boxes, or piles of stuff, pulled out what they wanted, and tossed the rest on the ground.

We hired a dirt mover to come dig a 10ft deep trench and we started tossing stuff in. We had to burn it a few times as it become overfull.

Right behind the trench was the OLD, leaning at a 45* angle, was the two hole outhouse. It was more collapsed than standing.

As a final salute to the farm, we dumped about 2 gallons of diesel in it, and lit it off.

It was theraputic; and I did take a pic of it burning.............

ron

 

[2nstonge]

I've been ripping thru my photo albums and can't find the pics, but I got 3 good ones from my backpacking adventures if anyone wants to check 'em out.

Resolution Shelter on Mt Resolution in the White Mtns (NH). This thing was on a STEEP slope side, had no walls, no roof, no seat. Just a square box with a flat top over the hole. But the best part is that is was moss covered to the extreme, the top had 2 handles, kind of like a pommel horse they use in gymnastics. So you got yourself hoisted over the hole on the 'pommel horse', doing your business, arms start quivering, you slip, get a butt cheek on the moss, dig digger for inner strength to get yourself hoisted back up...unbelievable. Better yet, try in the dark - in a rain/wind storm. Funny, I could hear Jim McKay from the Wide World of Sports in the back of my mind....

Long Trail in VT, Cooley Glen Shelter (Breadloaf Wilderness). Another open air 'outhouse' although this was nice enough to at least sport a seat. It was strategically located behind the root ball of huge blown down tree. The 'wow' factor was the house flies the size of a quarter buzzing - make that 'lumbering' around - no doubt achieving their incredible girth by feasting on the unspeakables below. They were so big and so slow they would literally fly into you and then fall to the ground. There were 100's of 'em. Soo, using an open palm you could sit there and tee them up as they flew into range and then spank them over the fence (the giant root ball!). Good fun.

3rd one, the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island (BC). I forget the camp name but it was 1 day north of Port Renfrew. We walked into camp just as the trail crew was leaving. They had spent a week building a brand new privvy; all cedar and redwood construction, solar powered fan, 2 stalls, and open air windows with shutters you could open - the view? Watching the surf break on the rocks below & the whales & seals further out in the Pacific Ocean and Port San Juan. It was funny, the crew said they hung around for half a day drinking coffee hoping it would enable one of them to christen the new outhouse but in the end it didn't happen. I got to do it. May never happen again in my lifetime - should I be proud?

Happy trails, -Norm

 

[scott_vt]

Ron and Norm,
Thanks for sharing those very entertaining stories /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif If by chance you do find those photos please share them if only by scanner /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif And Norm, I wouldnt think that moss wouldnt be to bad if it was dry /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

scotty

 

[Bird]

Ron, that sounds familiar. When I was 7 or 8 years old, Dad partitioned one bedroom and built a bathroom in there. No more bathing in a #2 washtub in the kitchen and taking that long walk to the outhouse. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Then we burned the outhouse. And then when I was 11, Dad changed jobs and we moved to a place with an outhouse again. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif But that time, when he got the bathroom built in the house, we left the outhouse because it was too close the hen house to burn and was right under a huge oak tree that we didn't want damaged. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[MadReferee]

A few years ago the New Hampshire Department of Tourism had a limited run of these "Sit Free or Die" outhouse posters made up. The company I was consulting at had a contract with them and I managed to get one of these rare posters. It now hangs on my son's bedroom wall.

 

[scott_vt]

Madref,
Thanks, thats a nice collection there /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Its turning out that there are quite a few out there, Im hoping Ron and Norm can find those photos and scan them in /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

scotty

 

[1948berg]

Not exatly an outhouse, an open air bathroom, very simpel and refreshing.

 

[1948berg]

Just aruond the corner