Travelling with Portable toilets, porta potty etc...

[Snaga Wishing I was lost Find all posts View Profile Close Snaga]

Now, I haven't shown my wife Trish's 'Notes and Tips for Participants' to the 2012 GTG but I know the first request will be...

I want a toilet in the camper trailer

So, my question is 2 fold...
1. What brands do people use... good or bad?
2. How do people secure them in the CT so they don't leak or get damaged with the type of terrain we tend to cover... ie, not the smooth black stuff that is so clearly a waste of tax payers money

[REV Find all posts View Profile Close REV]

I will have to check what brand ours is. (I will let you know Leon)

I would NOT, NEVER, NO WAY IN HELL, travel without the throne being emptied 1st. You do not have to mix up a full batch of chemicals as the toilet holds 15 Lts. That normally lasts 2 adults & 2 kids with a few extras dropping in for about 2 full days.
There are 2 types of chemicals one is blue for sewerage toilets only and the green one (thats the type you want ) as it's
biodegradable. You just dig a hole, empty the container and fill it in.

Cheers
Lawrie

[ondaboat Coopers Pale Ale Find all posts View Profile Close ondaboat]

You just dig a hole, empty and fill it in.

Hey Lawrie there was too many words there so I simplified it for Snaga

See ya @ the GTG

[REV Find all posts View Profile Close REV]

Thanks mate, did you tell him that thats where a lot of Coopers Pale Ale & XXXX and some other stuff ends up?

[ondaboat Coopers Pale Ale Find all posts View Profile Close ondaboat]

Rev did you have to start talking about beer. I'm at work (dry ship) so we don't mention that sort of stuff at least for 3 more weeks. Then..........well my friend we make up for lost time.

[REV Find all posts View Profile Close REV]

Rev did you have to start talking about beer. I'm at work (dry ship) so we don't mention that sort of stuff at least for 3 more weeks. Then..........well my friend we make up for lost time.

So I guess that you don't want to know that............that's exactly what I'm doing right at this point in time...........AAAARRRRRRRHHH.

That's beautiful & cold & wet and.............. makes me want to pee.

[ondaboat Coopers Pale Ale Find all posts View Profile Close ondaboat]

.............. makes me want to pee.

Only on MLC's tires OK

[REV Find all posts View Profile Close REV]

As long as he remembers that he started it!!!

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

I think ours is a T ford. I almost always travel without worrying about emptying it, pardon the pun but its a crap job and the fewer times I do it the better. We have never had an issue with it spilling.

The GTG info regards toilets however is mostly about the day trips, so you wont have your camper trailer with you except for the 2 days in Ngarkat. Lots of bush toilets (bushes) on all the tracks though!

Cheers Andrew

[Whitey1 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Whitey1]

Yep we've got a Thetford toilet. No problems with leaks over rough terrain (and we've been over some pretty rough stuff). It travels in the camper. Actually it does sometimes leak out the breather in the cap on the flush tank if we fill it up too much. That is flush water only! So it is clean and NOT the smelly stuff!
A bit of gaffa tape over the breather when in transit should fix it.
The waste tank is completely sealed when not using it.

[sbclover Member Find all posts View Profile Close sbclover]

Same as Whitey1. I just put ours in a plastice cube crate just in case of spills.

Sean

[REV Find all posts View Profile Close REV]

Now, I haven't shown my wife Trish's 'Notes and Tips for Participants' to the 2012 GTG but I know the first request will be...

I want a toilet in the camper trailer

So, my question is 2 fold...
1. What brands do people use... good or bad?
2. How do people secure them in the CT so they don't leak or get damaged with the type of terrain we tend to cover... ie, not the smooth black stuff that is so clearly a waste of tax payers money

Hi Leon, ours is a Thetford, and while the bottom tank is sealed, just the thought of a spill from it, dictates that I empty it.

I would not like the job of cleaning out the camper & items therein.:shock:

[Snaga Wishing I was lost Find all posts View Profile Close Snaga]

Cool, thanks... we've been planning on getting one for a while, and as Lorelai is still toilet training it'll be easier than trying to get her to understand the concept of peeing behind a tree when we've been telling her the best place is in the toilet for the last few months

I was thinking of a milk crate or something similar to help tie it down when on the move.

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

We have the OzTrail version. The bottom tank has never leaked, but the top tank leaks all the time from the flushing squirter pipes so before travel I will dump the bottom tank and pour the remaining flush tank water into the bottom tank to save water. The missus puts some consentrated lavender smelly drops into the flush tank to "make it smell real purdy". Be mindful when disposing of the waste to ensure you dig a reasonable hole to prevent the wild dogs and dingoes from digging up your do-dos. We can usually find an old mineshaft which seem to be convenient for rubbish disposal.

[JoshF Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoshF]

Why not use the multitude of dump sites scattered all over the country instead of a hole, especially when using the nasty chemical mix?