paden cash, post: 442485, member: 20 wrote: I have experienced "epic failure" before in performing a deed that my ancestors were apparently far better at than myself. A good example of the "Five Ps"...
Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
My brother use to keep folding toilet seat in his Dodge camping wagon. I never tried it. I guess I'm more of a fundamentalist and am always keeping my eyes peeled for a good downed log over which I might hang my junk if need be.
Take a five gallon bucket with no lid, cut the bottom out of the bucket. Place foam pipe insulation around the top of the bucket. Use appropriately and when finished grab the bail and walk away. If you're in an area that deposits are frowned upon place a plastic trash bag in the bucket with an appropriate amount of kitty litter. When finished cinch the top of the bag, grab the bail and walk away.
Andy
Andy Bruner, post: 442576, member: 1123 wrote: Take a five gallon bucket with no lid, cut the bottom out of the bucket. Place foam pipe insulation around the top of the bucket. Use appropriately and when finished grab the bail and walk away. If you're in an area that deposits are frowned upon place a plastic trash bag in the bucket with an appropriate amount of kitty litter. When finished cinch the top of the bag, grab the bail and walk away.
Andy
I have used a 5 gal. bucket. I found the "work area" to be a little constrained.
It's probably TMI, but I think it's a human's duty to the environment to be able to 'take care of business' and walk away in a manner that the only two that will ever know are you and God. 😉
Andy, that's we used to do when deer hunting except that we found that a toilet seat fits perfectly on the top of the bucket. The bucket stayed outside and the seat was kept inside next to the heater in the trailer, always warm and ready.
More people squat across the globe than by any other method.
I shouldn't discuss this, but last year at hunting camp, we invented a trick chair out of one of those canvas folding chairs.
Our camp was exposed to the road, so in the morning, we would grab the hunting regs., dig a hole with the shovel, then set the chair up facing away from the road and listen to trucks drive by on the road. Nobody was the wiser.
Would have helped to have a plumb bob to reduce our centering errors.
StackExchange has various Q&A "forums". I follow a handful including Travel which had this question asked a few years ago:
OK we're all adults here, so really, how on earth should I use a squat toilet?
they'll never catch on in the west... too hard to scroll thru your news feed like that... as for out in the boonies. only an overconfident amatuer DOESN'T have a roll of TP and a packet of wet-ones under the driver's seat..... As jack Nicholson said in "the Bucket List", "NEVER_EVER trust a fart"- especially on May 6.
All this planning is fine but when a little voice in your head says you're gonna sh!t in 30 seconds and you get to choose where.......well its been my experience that the best plans in the world are rendered useless.
Y'all have to learn to use stout slender saplings to do the deed in the field.
However.....the Squatty Potty does work in your home.
For the unitiated
https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-3rd-Environmentally/dp/1580083633
Andy
Rankin_File, post: 442662, member: 101 wrote: they'll never catch on in the west... too hard to scroll thru your news feed like that... as for out in the boonies. only an overconfident amatuer DOESN'T have a roll of TP and a packet of wet-ones under the driver's seat..... As jack Nicholson said in "the Bucket List", "NEVER_EVER trust a fart"- especially on May 6.
A wise man once said, "The time to realize that there is no TP in the blue house is before you have mobilized and started operations" , in regards to waiting until we were ready to start before loading up a bag of stakes.
RIP DJM
Since I've been helping out on the farm at an early age, I've learned that there are two things you never leave the house or barn without:
1 H2O
2 TP
When I travel overseas, I have space dedicated for TP to last my travels.
