I'm getting there ......

[GotOldEarly]

The 2000 4Runner maintenance and mods are complete and all set up to do some camping trips.  Will be about six months before I can start the build on a custom Cargo Trailer to get the setup complete.  My plan is to keep the Cargo Trailer build clean and simple.  I do not need, and will not have, tanks and a bunch of comfort crap that would complicate the build and cause me problems down the road.  Just excited to be making progress and still heading in the right direction.

 

[ssminnow]

Ditto on the plumbing part, I really like what I'm seeing and hearing about those composting toilets! They are expensive for sure but I hope Money well spent. Good luck on your rig, gotta like a 4Runner pulling your gear!!

 

[GotOldEarly]

Ditto on the plumbing part, I really like what I'm seeing and hearing about those composting toilets! They are expensive for sure but I hope Money well spent. Good luck on your rig, gotta like a 4Runner pulling your gear!!

Thanks much.  Yes, the composting toilets are to $$$ for me.  I'll do fine with a bucket and maybe a homemade composter later.

 

[ssminnow]

Hmm, I'm going to have to look into what's involved in building one.

 

[GotOldEarly]

Hmm, I'm going to have to look into what's involved in building one.

Not sure how or the details for building one.  I just know that they built several custom compost toilets for a number of folks that attended the recent Van Build Party in Parker, AZ.  I plan to look into it and use a bucket until I build one or have one built for me at the next Van Build Party.  Can't beat the cost if they build one for you.  Cost is for the materials needed and their time and labor to build is donated.

 

[bullfrog]

Seperating toliets like the C-Head would be fairly easy as they use a gallon water jug for urine and a modified 5 gallon bucket for solids with a cup or two of cedar shavings. The custom mixing parts are mainly black PVC pipe. For private individual use you could probably mold a funnel and mixer blade. I believe there are several YouTube videos on the subject. Of the three main manufactured toilets C-H was the cheapest and easist to maintain when I was looking a couple years ago in my opinion.

 

[GotOldEarly]

Seperating toliets like the C-Head would be fairly easy as they use a gallon water jug for urine and a modified 5 gallon bucket for solids with a cup or two of cedar shavings.  The custom mixing parts are mainly black PVC pipe.  For private individual use you could probably mold a funnel and mixer blade.  I believe there are several YouTube videos on the subject.  Of the three main manufactured toilets C-H was the cheapest and easist to maintain when I was looking a couple years ago in my opinion.

Thanks bullfrog.  I will look into C-Head.  I appreciate the reference.

 

[ssminnow]

I watched a video on them and it looked like it was a little to hands on for me. I've done the bag and a 7 gallon bucket trick many times up on lake of the woods Ice fishing and it wasn't bad at all. The one thing about doing the bag thing up there was the crap was froze before it even hit the ice, in the desert it will be just about at boiling temp when it hits the ground so there may be a little difference in disposing of it when you throw it outside.
i think i would have a 5 gallon bucket, (not black) with a good sealing top and try really hard to keep it out of direct sunlight. i think you could go a week on a bucket before going somewhere to dispose of it. I think i would by one of shower tents and do everything outside and seal that bucket every night.

 

[bullfrog]

I also have done the bucket and bag in a shower tent except I used the expensive powder double wag bags and believe me you don't want to let them over fill so at best a day. Keeping the poo and pee seperated allows you to dispose of the pee conventiently and have less material and smell in the bucket, in fact less in the bucket includes putting toilet paper in a seperate container, again more convientient to dispose of. By doing things this way the bucket takes longer to fill up and the dry dirt type mixture of cedar shavings and poo is easier to deal with than a bag of pee and poo in my opinion and is much cheaper than wag bags. Nothing is cheaper than a public toliet or a cat hole but the cedar shavings are very low cost and the urine container is a recycled milk/juice/water gallon jug in the C-Head.

 

[ckelly78z]

From my previous camping experience, I wouldn't leave a bucket of anything smelly outdoors at night, the raccoons/other critters will always find anything they think might have food in it.

 

[Firebuild]

This lady made herself a pretty good separating dry toilet using a stainless steel dog dish among other things. Not a full on composting toilet but most of us are not doing a lot of composting anyway, just looking for a less smelly way to do our business.