Outhouses

My Grandfather, was a skilled carpenter, and the outhouse was all there was at the farm. So to keep the women folk happy, it was not a box with a hole and a door, it was a work of art, with lanterns, a book shelf, and all the comforts he could add like insulation, and gingerbreading in the eves.
It was built on runners, so the tractor could just hitch up and towit to a new pit as needed.
And as it was ornate, he took a ribbing from time to time, but the worst problem was that kids would roll it over every Halloween. (They though it was hilarious, like cow tipping)
Keep in mind that the only light came from the moon, and the farm house, so they would always approach from the shadow side of the outhouse, shove it over, and run off into the darkness, laughing their a$$es off. One night. It caught fire, from one of the lanterns breaking.
My Grandfather was pissed. So the next Halloween, he moved the outhouse, just after dark. He repositioned it just a few feet forward, toward the farmhouse, and left the open pit behind it.
After, full dark, here comes the pack of fools, charging from the backside, like a pack of lemmings, and just short of that promised thrill, the very earth betrayed them, and the whole pack of fools went swimming.
He never had another problem after word got around.

 

So you don't put ash on in layers to make it last longer?

I'm just asking.. Girl scout counselor during summer camp in college... We had to close the lids and doors or the squirrels would crawl in and once a week put ash from fires in the hole to keep oder down


@kellory that made laugh... We did something similar at Halloween with giant pumpkins.... Only my grand mother coated 100 pumpkin in lard.... So funny watching them try to pick up that pumpkin and get all that grease on them

 

Lol, Never jack with an old man or his outhouse!!!

 

Never considered until now, Perhaps I will start with the ash's.

 

@Yard Dart this one does not work.

 

Ashes do the work? Or I do think work...?

 

Sorry for the confusion. The link you made, when "tagging" me, did not function, and I mentioned it in the shoutbox. @Yard Dart tagged me elsewhere, and it worked. So I tagged him here, saying that this tag did fail (to figure out why it did not function).
Clear as mud yet?

 

Well, @kellory and @Yard Dart, did you pay for your tags yet this year?

Sorry, couldn't resist. No, seriously, I'm actually really sorry (but I'm not sorry enough to change it or delete the post).

 

On, we got his tags, but still need his shots updated....

 

This thread is crap!


lol....Back to the grill'n

 

If SHTF....it may pay to harden your crapper....because clap board won't stop crap...or lead. A covered approach to your crapper would be a desireable feature....once you're seated...you'd make a pretty stationary target.

 

I did mine the same way Gator.

 

You shot your outhouse? Rofl

 

So mail him some....

 

in winter my composting toilet freezes up and the outhouse is too cold for these old bones.
I heat with wood..

a grocery bag (plastic) is placed in the bowl of the toilet and a few newspapers at the btm of the bag. this is not for urine.

do your business and toss the bag into the woodstove.

the woodstove runs from oct til april and all deposits get incinerated within an hr.

 

That's hot sh*t man... (said with a Cheech or Chong accent)

 

Oh man! My wife and I were cracking up reading this. We've been there done that. Cat hole squat, bored hole squat, Porta Potty, outhouse, bucket and bag, bucket and kitty litter, ammo can, and an tiny RV head that you couldn't shut the door sitting down. Which was real nice for anybody sitting at the table that you could reach out and touch it from the throne. LMAO!!!

Don't even get me started on the desert "smear" technique.

Oh yeah, and when I blew my knee out and went on a primitive camp anyway and could only get halfway down. I had to deboot and depants in order to not drop a deuce in my pocket. Next few camps as I slowly healed, I had to employ the go and roll 'cause I couldn't get up from down there except from my knees.

 

For now we are using a bucket and saw dust. We are only there on the weekend during the day right now, though. We will eventually build a legit outhouse. Lol.