port-potties goin like hotcakes...previous thread....

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After reading the earlier post this morning, I started to reply and add some url's regarding info I garnered about freestanding, build it yourself toilets that I researched back in May of this year. I pulled the hard copy downloads out of my files, and just to check, typed in the URLs listed on the printouts and tried to go there. To my surprise, neither one was available anymore. There's something to be said for hard copies in a paperless world! One of the URL's was from the U. S. Patent Office, regarding patent no. 4,001,108, applied for on June 23, 1975. It is a patent application for a Natural Biochemical Decomposition of Latrine, complete with abstract, dimensioned schematic, and illustrated parts breakdown. The other one was a "sawdust toilet" DIY project, entitled "The Composting of Human Manure" (what a fetching title, huh?), with a thorough dissertation on how to build one, why it works, etc., etc., The Patent Office URL was http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/cgi-bin_cmd/US04001108_, and the sawdust toilet URL was http://kauai.net/humanure/humanure.html . Any thoughts as to where they went or why they are no longer available?

-- Jay Urban (jurban@berenyi.com), October 13, 1999

Answers

They were rendered obsolete by the Porta-Polly.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), October 13, 1999.

Google search on "sawdust toilet" yields 19 matches.

The first one fills the bill: How to make and use a simple "sawdust toilet"

Check out the rest of 'em....

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 13, 1999.


Porta- Pollies are already full....how can they make field latrines obsolete (chuckle)

-- Jay Urban (jurban@berenyi.com), October 13, 1999.

I tell you what, if it's between crapping in one of those porta-potties or behind a tree, I'll take the tree. Went to Lake Tahoe a couple weeks ago and found two porta-potties on wheels and the ranger was cleaning them. When he was done, I stepped inside and about died! There was crap filled clear to the top of the toilet seat! I ran outside gagging and got the dry heaves! After I calmed down, I asked the ranger how did he get a shi*tty job like that? Yeh, he said it can get pretty bad sometimes.

There's a book out called "How to Shit In the Woods." I recommend that people buy this and learn from it.

-- still gagging (stillgagging@stillgaggingg.xcom), October 13, 1999.


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