Ductape Dave
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Your only going to emtpy it every 4 days??? I guess your only going to use it twice unless you have a huge tank. And what about how much it will weigh after 4 days of pee & poopy? 
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NewsW
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Engineer a teflon coated flush bowl that uses say, 5oz of water for the flush, and a device that uses engine waste heat to compost and dry out the liquid into a solid that is composted / disposable as a solid.
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abradf2519
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I'll go on record and say you're nuts. Sorry...nothing personal. I have done all three methods talked about here. Used a port-a-potty in my tent, used a European cassette in a popup, and have a black tank in my current Class C. I would much rather just dump my tank at the dumping station any day. Carrying a sloshing plastic tank around when you don't have to is nuts.
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mlts22
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Different strokes for different folks. I've used porta-potties when tent camping, a bumper dumper hitch receiver toilet with a five gallon bucket, an toilet that used plastic bags with powder in them, and an RV toilet.
Disposing of the RV stuff is the easiest. Since I'm dumping the grey water tank anyway, it doesn't take much to dump the black, and then when back in the rig, squirt some dish detergent down the toilet and a few gallons of water.
Disposing of the stuff in the bottom part in the Porta-Potti was a relative pain, since at home, I had to time pouring it down the pipe so as not to have it glug. Other people with Porta-Potties just waited until nearby porta-johns were cleaned out and emptied in there.
As for the bags, someone stole the box I had full of those out of the bed of my truck. It was a box a TV came in, so I'm guessing someone thought they would score an electronic item.
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Deb and Ed M
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As I age, my aching back would MUCH rather bend over and pull the handles, then to carry a tank filled with poo/water (8.3 lbs per gallon) through the "house" and down the steps to wherever.....
If you use good sewer hose and good fittings, it's an easy, quick job to dump the tanks. I can pull into a dump station and be outta there in about 3 minutes flat. Doesn't get easier or faster than THAT, IMO....
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Dusty R
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At one time there was a system for TT that hooked into the exhaust of the tow car tat burned the wastes from the black tank.
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Bethany Carolina
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R u fricken nuts? Have you ever sat on a porta pot for awhile & stand up? How old are you? Bad knees? Better have some leverage to hold onto gettin' your poor self up.
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rockhillmanor
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gerrym51 wrote:thanks for the responses. after reading them i have come to the conclusion that although the porta potti can be done it's drawbacks are no better or worse than the holding tanks.
and the holding tanks probably will have fewer times having to be dumped.
although it seems like a ridiculous amount of money to spend
i probably will carry the polychute and a portable macerator.
imagine spending 500 dollars on poop removal.
Are you only going to boondock with this new RV?
If you are boondocking and have to move to dump there shouldn't be a problem......you ARE boondocking so there is no one else around, no CG, no site, no nada. You move you dump. And BTW you will have to do the same damn thing whether you are dumping your portable pottie and getting real close and personal with your waste with that option OR pulling the lever on a tank! 
You pull a valve and it dumps! That's it! If you are in a CG there's no moving to dump. No extra money needed for gadgets. Some feel the NEED to make the waste smaller before they dump, to this day I still don't get that one.
Ya, I think you are on the verge with this one!
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edited 08/08/12 09:53pm by rockhillmanor *
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us".
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gerrym51
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I decided in the first page of these answers not to use the porta potti and i put the post down on the first page. i can't believe i'm still getting replies.
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Mocoondo
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If you don't like to deal with poop, then don't poop in your motorhome.
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