You know, I really could care less if you want to pack fudge or munch on a carpet. It’s not like we really need to procreate any more so if you want to waste your seed parking it in some guys colon, whatever. I would respectfully request that any female not coyote ugly ( Coyote Ugly
) not turn lesbo, but that’s just me. What I really dislike, however, is when you want to pull me into your little gay clubhouse and intrude in my normal hetro lifestyle. National Pravda Radio ran a piece on how the college atmosphere was so hostile to gays and lesbians that there obviously needed to be a step up in politically correct policing and more sensitivity training and etcetera. Seriously? The collage atmosphere hasn’t been stifling free speech over twenty years as it is, you want to bring in the thought police ( The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds
) now? It used to be you couldn’t say you hated gays. I guess now you have to give their AIDS ridden walking zombie corpses a hug every time you see them? Oops. Did I go there? I better go view “Philadelphia”( Philadelphia
). I know, germane to nothing. But if it pisses me off, you get to hear about it.*
I wasn’t getting enough Internet time in the morning, between desperately slurping coffee to wake up and making my microwave bread for the next two meals. I set the alarm clock ( ELGIN TRAVEL ALARM CLOCK
) ahead ten minutes so I can add to my time online. Is this the kind of selfless sacrifice you’ve come to expect of me, or what? I’m now up BEFORE the butt crack of dawn. So I’m hoping I’ll have enough time to keep up on my Dirt Cheap Dirt blog. Its not like I’m the holder of the keys to some secret. You go to E-Bay, look under Real estate, look under land, hit “Buy Now” only, then put in your maximum price you want to pay. You can then refine it even further by state if you want. But I feel passionate about people getting junk land, so I guess continuing the blog is my way of continuing the jihad against mortgages or rent. Since housing has been proven to be a total rip off as I’ve been saying all along, and since renting will now be a landlords market and that will screw you even more, I feel rent free land is more important than ever. Is buying on E-Bay ( eBay for Dummies, Second Edition
) fool-proof? Of course not. But it is one of the more important gambles you can take. As incomes shrink and inflation screams ahead, it will be more important than ever to not earn more but to have LESS bills. *
We constantly talk about human waste disposal here at the Bison Headquarters. It makes a lot of you uncomfortable, you squirm and fidget, and wonder why you just can’t take out a second mortgage and install the super size water holding tank, septic tank, fifteen thousand watt diesel generator ( DuroStar DS7200Q 6,000 Watt Diesel Powered Fully Enclosed Portable Generator With Wireless Remote & Electric Start
) and whatever else twenty grand buys you to be able to flush those pesky turds down with several gallons of water. Out here in the arid desert, with a water table close by in comparison to a lot of other dry areas ( 100 feet is nothing compared to some Arizona or New Mexico locations ), you still need five to ten grand minimum for a well ( it doesn’t help one drill company went out of business and left the other a monopoly ). Ten miles over they routinely spend thirty grand in wells. $800 for a septic permit. Several grand to plant one. A septic system is a suckers game. So, I harp on turd disposal strategies to save you lots of money and to get you out on junk land much quicker. And, the most important, if you find a cheaper way to flush, the wife will get onboard. Anymore, with LED 12v bulbs ( 194 168 T10 SMD High Power LED HYPER WHITE BULBS Dome Lights 12V (2 bulbs)
), lighting is nearly normal. Propane can power most other appliances so you can have a regular household off grid. But you must have a flusher to get momma to move out to the boonies. Normally I would tell you to man up and drag the bitch out to the land and throw her ass in the freezing outhouse, but NPR has made me realize I am a barbaric heathen and I need to get in touch with my feminine side and be more soft and gooey. So I’m showing you cheaper ways to lovingly accommodate the wife’s need to discreetly flush her stinkies. *
http://www.jcwhitney.com/portable-rv-waste-pump/p2017532.jcwx?TID=8014524FT2&zmam=15972153&zmas=21&zmac=129&zmap=27668G
is an example of an RV sewage pump ( for more, Google, surprise, RV sewage pump ). They are about $300. If you have an RV this allows you to pump the sewage uphill over distance. In your case, from the travel trailer holding tank up into your plastic sewage tank in the bed of your pick-up truck. When you go into town you dump at a station for a few bucks. I would recommend that rather than buy this online you go to your local mom and pop RV ( The Complete Idiot's Guide to RVing, 2nd Edition
) center and ask the advice of the staff and pay the premium. In the future, if you are a regular, they will help you out with things like electrical wiring and such. It is just like tipping the waitress at the restaurant. It buys future good will. In the collapse future, just go to a sawdust toilet or an outhouse. They are both illegal now but it won’t matter then. Just have the plans/tools/bags of lime or shavings ahead of time. This is the cheap, legal, fast way to set up sewage now, however. Under four hundred for a large family ( the cost of the truck tank is added ). One or two people can buy a smaller tank that fills from the tank as it lays flat. It is a bitch to lift up, though.*
If you don’t have $400, there is the five gallon bucket ( The Five Gallon Bucket Book: 105 Uses and Abuses for the Ultimate Recyclable
) with the green sanitizer ( you should be able to buy in bulk from a porti-potti place ) but emptying that into a larger container to transport is pretty gross. What I suggest is building an outhouse over the truck holding tank. Have a camping porti-potti ( 5 gal PORTABLE TOILET Outdoor Camping Recreation
) with the 3” sewer hose attached and leading down. Open the valve when finished. If that is too complicated ( if might weigh too much or take too much lumber- I was visualizing two base boards underneath laid across the truck sides with the outhouse built on those boards ) you can perhaps have one camping toilet that you empty each day by walking it out to the truck. It only holds a few gallons. Perhaps you can build a unit yourself, with a sewage valve added to the bottom of a five gallon bucket (s). More than likely the pump will be the easiest solution ( even if you don’t have an RV you can hook up a RV toilet over a holding tank indoors with a raised floor ). It isn’t rocket science. An RV store has all the tools you need, you should be able to figure out what works for you. Perhaps if you have a two story cabin you put the first holding tank upstairs under the toilet, then have a PVC pipe hook-up leading down to the truck holding tank ( use solid PVC, not the flexible RV hose if possible ). *
Or perhaps a winch on a tri-pod lifts the tank from the ground ( taken from inside on wheels ) into the truck. If that is cheaper than a pump. The point is that only your imagination is stopping you from saving thousands. You can still have cheap flushing toilets off grid.
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10 comments:
Great post today.
BTW. How are things going over in DAYTON,NV. 89403?????
Business must be good in these times.
Can you elaborate in these subjects??
Junk Land.
Trailer living.
.303 surplus rifle.
Bicycle use for transportation.
Purchase of wheat.
Thanks in advance.
your loyal minion.
Sell the wife on the outhouse by letting her decorate it "Martha Stewart" style. We had one when we first moved up here 15 years ago and now we're building another one because they're handy when you don't want to walk with muddy boots through the house.
Even suburban yuppies can put one in RIGHT NOW. Just make a small "tool/garden shed" in the back yard. Hang some shovels on it, park a wheelbarrow in front and your set. When SHTF, the cute neighbor will be begging to use it.
Currently, we use a composting toilet up here at the homestead. Not perfect but it works. They can be very expensive though. They work great as a crapper but don't overuse them as a pisser--go outside behind a bush so to keep the "liquid input" at a reasonable level.
If you have no practical experience at this, I would recommend at a MINIMUM that all yuppie preppers have the "Humanure Handbook" on the bookshelf and a few 5 gallon buckets for when SHTF.
Idaho Homesteader
PS James--things seem to be really coming together fast now. It reminds me of Scotty on Star Trek, "She's breaking up Captain. I don't know how much longer I can keep it together." You may want to do a basic "this-is-what-you-need-right-NOW" article. It's getting time that you need to scare your minions.
Nice hair today, by the way.
Jeebus H Christ on a pogo stick! - All this complexity with pumps and piping will come back to bite you. Dig a hole and build an outhouse over it. It will be sanitary (IF) you make up a heavy, well gasketed lid to keep closed when not in use. The vent stack and windows should be covered with window screen to further prevent fly intrusion. There should be no entrance points for flies to reach the crap, a tube of cheap caulk will help in sealing stuff up. These things were used for hundreds of years and few people died. Why try to reinvent the freaking wheel when you have a cheap, usable, low maintenance, safe method right here. HAIL DARWIN
You are giving this waaaay too much thought. Tho' it IS a get the momma happy item.
My dog poops in the yard; he eats about the same stuff I do. Why OOO why can't I? hum "somewhere-- over the rainbow; as you picture it. She sure was cute; shame she had it so tough.
You don't want to get it on you but you pick it up and deal with it; For me hot compost garbage bags; let cook for a couple years till bags disintegrate from sun exposure; For TEOWAKI -- AIFF
use it for nitrate production for your [black powder] charcoal burner.
BUT; if folks get stumped by bootles under glass maybe your analysis is justified.
C---dreaming of Poppy fields--57
I'd just start "the wife" on a humanure system using nice-smelling cedar chips, you can buy for hamster cages. One she finds out how non-stinky that system is, gradually change over to leaf compost and other more easily gotten media. The thing is, cedar chips smell nice. That matters to gals. Depending on your ecosystem, you can gather a shitton or lavender that just grows around, and a little of that goes a long way too. Here, it grows around shopping malls, next to the country hospital, around McDonald's, other odd places. No one's gonna give a shit if you cut a few stalks at a time, or better, just spend a few minutes stripping a few inches of the purple flowers off of each one. There are other aromatic things out there in the desert too, like sage. Start out this way, and a humanure system won't offend anyone normal; they'll think it's neat.
All the back to land guys up here make sure our wives have subscriptions to Mary Jane's Farm Magazine: http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/ I've no connection to the publication.
She cutes things up so the wimmin folk think this stuff is their idea. Sure, we might have to paint flowers or some such nonsense on it, but divorces are expensive, and paint is cheap.
Click this link to see pictures
http://planetaryrenewal.org/ipr/lifesupport.html#toilet
Solar Toilet
The solar toilet is a waste dehydration device. The waste is "flushed" (covered) with a layer of granular flush material (earth, sand, & cellulose) for odor control and safety and then solar heated. It is only necessary to bring waste to 160 degrees F for six seconds to kill all pathogens dangerous to humans, an easy job for solar. Liquids evaporate. When the container is full, it is moved horizontally in the heating chamber and replaced with an empty container. The previous container remains in the solar disinfecting enclosure until fully disinfected and dehydrated and needed for composting. The dried ash will take up only a tiny fraction of the original volume. The toilet opening is sealed with a ceramic cover (tile) when not in use .
Ordinary compositing toilets cannot guarantee safety because the temperatures do not get high enough. With the Solar Toilet, the dehydrated, disinfected, compacted ash can be safely composted and used even on food crops.
Solar toilets solve all of the problems associated with sewage disposal and wastewater treatment plants, making them unnecessary.
Feces or Butt Mustard as I prefer to call it is 75% water. If you let the moisture evaporate,the remaining 25% consists of dead bacteria,undigested food matter,inorganic material,cholesterol,fat and protein.
In other words, if you don't add 5 gallons of drinking water every time you pop a squat you have minimal scat to contend with.
Hence, a outhouse is high tech. No wasted water. After evaporation is complete there is minimal odor.
This is more of a conversation about ass cake than I ever wish to have but it is a viable issue unlike say for example: Bison Hair Care.
So that having been said, I recommend covering your feces with anything absorbent and elevating your thoughts to a more stimulating subject like substitutions for toilet paper in the desert.
I know I am a old gov.cheese eating gimp with a bad attitude and a odd sense of humor but that's why the bison loves me.
the rat
Microwave bread?
You know, I like and agree with much of what you write, but when you write about what you eat I cringe.
Doode,
You should checkout The Passage by Justin Cronin. Cronin's got a good post apocalypse groove going on. The passage is on the literature side of things, not a lot of 3G (guns, guts, glory) going on and not too much to learn post TEOTWAWKT wise, but it's a good read.
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