Ok, let’s get technical. How to make a cammode -
First, steal a cammode. Any one will do, doesn’t matter if it is low-flow, energy-saver, any of that. But making that complex porcelain thing is going to beyond anybody, in a zombie apocolypse.
Got the throne? Good, you are about done.
You next need three barrels ... if you plan to stay in the area. One, if not.
First, put a rain barrel above the john. Plumb it into the crapper’s water source. Dig a hole under the crapper, and you have a working john.
The one is for a rain barrell.
If you intend to stay ... you need two more barrels.
Plumb the waste from the crapper into the first, let it stew, then plumb it into the second all via a gravity-feed system - this is called a septic field. Let the second barrell leak, the waste goes away.
Ironically, years ago, ago, there was an article on FR - “Septic Fields Leak!”
Well, no stuff. That is what they are designed to do.
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Can I move by you if it hits? :)
I much prefer a composting toilet that uses no water, as described in “Humanure”. The book is online. We used one for at least a year. Works well, little to no odor at all, everything composts nicely. Just need a bunch of buckets and composting materials that can anything from sawdust (raw lumber, not kiln dried), leaf mould, leaves, dirt, chipper shredder stuff, etc.
>> Ironically, years ago, ago, there was an article on FR - “Septic Fields Leak!”
Well, no stuff. That is what they are designed to do. <<
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You’re in a world of hurt when they stop ‘leaking.’