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Postby kirkman » Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:38 pm

I have used a compost toilet for #2 with peat moss, saw dust, and kitty litter and it works GREAT...... My Question is for those of you that have used a compost toilet with kitty litter for #1. How well did it work?... I have 3 girls going camping with me and they don't like the public rest rooms. Should I buy a Thedford flush toilet also for just going #1 in or use my 5 gal. bucket toilet for both?
Thanks Jason!!
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Postby Big Dan » Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:56 pm

I got a folding potty with the plastic bags. I use kitty litter in it and it works great. Some of those bathrooms can be prity nasty.And walking acrost the campground just to have to wait for someone els to finnish is no fun. Mine is always open and it does'nt smell. Its the one tent I won't leave behind.
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Postby Aaron Coffee » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:44 pm

I often take my nephew camping with me and he doesn't like the vault toilets(outhouses) so I usually try and get as close as possible to the shower house as they usually have regular toilets. It's too bad you aren't closer to me as I have a chemical camp tiolet that I don't use and if someone was interested would just give it away.
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Postby madjack » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:47 pm

Big Dan wrote:I got a folding potty with the plastic bags. I use kitty litter in it and it works great. Some of those bathrooms can be prity nasty.And walking acrost the campground just to have to wait for someone els to finnish is no fun. Mine is always open and it does'nt smell. Its the one tent I won't leave behind.


a big +1...we have an old potty chair...plastic bags and kitty litter is what we use...double bag and dispose in campground dumpster..........
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Postby Wolffarmer » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:40 pm

Public toilets are all a part of the camping adventure.

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Postby StandUpGuy » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:22 pm

Thanks for sharing.
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Postby kirkman » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:25 pm

Thanks guys!..... Did the kitty litter hold all the liquids?

Wolffarmer.....You want to tell my girls that. :lol:
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Postby Big Dan » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:40 pm

I keep a jug of litter in the head and every time I go I shake alittle on top P.S. I start out with some in the bag
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Postby WhitneyK » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:41 pm

I here ya Mike (slow), now I know what Dad alway meant when he had to go it wasn't now, it was RIGHT NOW!!!!

This gettin' old stinks!!! (pun can be taken if you like)
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Postby StandUpGuy » Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:09 pm

What trailer are you considering putting a flush toilet in? Is it large enough to justify it?
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Postby CliffinGA » Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:25 am

I cheat and take the toilet seat covers with me for those public toilets and we have a coleman we keep for at night.

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Postby kirkman » Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:06 am

Big Dan.... That is what I do after a solid deposit.

StandUpGuy.... Not a full blown flush toilet. Just one of the portable ones that you can get a walmart. For my privy/shower tent.
I was not/am not sure the 5 gal. bucket with kitty liter could handle soaking up all the liquid that 3 girls can produce in a weekend. I know it works GREAT on solid wast. I have used it for a week strait for solid deposits...... I don't use it for going #1 when I am out buy my self. I did not want to try to empty a soaking wet kitty liter disaster at the end of the weekend. I can only imagine what a mess that could be.

CliffinGA... If I could only get them to do that!

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Postby rebapuck » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:13 am

I've used the portapotty and the bags. Definately prefer the bags.

I now use the portapotty to sit on, and the bags to catch.
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Postby Arne » Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:28 pm

At the recent Ross Hill get together, I thought about my g/f (first camping trip) and brought my rarely used (once) Pett portable toilet and set it up in my cabela shower tent..... she was forever grateful... next time I will bring some kitty litter to add to the plastic bags... And it did work very well for her...

I don't like the normal porapotis... low gag reflex..... :)
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Postby Arne » Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:28 pm

Arne wrote:At the recent Ross Hill get together, I thought about my g/f (first camping trip) and brought my rarely used (once) Pett portable toilet and set it up in my cabela shower tent..... she was forever grateful... next time I will bring some kitty litter to add to the plastic bags... And it did work very well for her...

I don't like the normal porta-potis... low gag reflex..... :)
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