Gloves, WHY???

[Rumour and Innuendo]

I really can't see the relationship between wiping your own bum and emptying a slurry of chemicals and human waste from many sources. Nor the correlation between a public toilet and a place for emptying that slurry! In a toilet, the human waste goes down the pan and is flushed. In a black waste disposal point there are multiple people who have no cares about the mess they leave and don't seem to wash the disposal point down after use.

Then there are those who use knitted gloves that fester being used to turn on taps and use the hoses. Yes toilets are dirty places, but when using equipment on a site with many others on unknown hygiene, we use disposable gloves. I have eczema that leaves my hands with small breaks in the skin, so have to be careful, but even if I didn't, I would still use gloves.

But then I also use antibacterial wipes on drinking water taps before I connect the hose. The number of times I have seen motorhome/campervan users washing a cassette out with the fresh water and lifting it to the tap... As well as service points being abused as the pictures show. So if you don't mind, I will continue to use my disposable gloves.

 

[Reallyretired]

Though I've not used them I can see that disposable gloves makes sense. What doesn't is people using foul marigolds that they've used umpteen times, which are far more of a hazard than not using any at all. I wonder if they use the same ones for washing up

 

[Minxy]

Similar to the "back to backs" on Hessle Road. They guys where known as "night soil" Men. My Gran used to put newspaper down from the front door to the backyard, for them to walk on and if she got a tiny drop on the floor?, By God did they get the edge of her tongue!. BTW, did you know all the waste went on the land around HULL and the farmers ploughed it in with the animal waste as Fertiliser. You could tell where, when the tomato plants came up in the fields!.

I know about the soil waste sites ... we have one opposite our place in Cottingham!

Once the dumping stopped many moons ago they set up market gardens on the site which from what I understand produced fantastic veg ... all gone now and it's just a lovely nature haven for the wildlife and dog walking.

 

[Lenny HB]

Though I've not used them I can see that disposable gloves makes sense. What doesn't is people using foul marigolds that they've used umpteen times, which are far more of a hazard than not using any at all. I wonder if they use the same ones for washing up

Even worse the leather/material gardening gloves the French & Dutch favour.

 

[mushy]

This thread has brought me to tears literally. I have just watched the videos in an earlier posting that I must have missed when originally posted. That is the most I have laughed for years, the tears were running down my face. What a bunch of whimps.

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[PeteH]

The night soil men were called honey men around here, they drove the honey wagon.

It`s Also what our American cousins Call them/it. when they come to "bail out" the camp-ground facilities. (I wonder if it started because of the number of US wartime bases in that area?)

 

[bubble]

We already have the outfit as well !!!!

 

[Anthea M]

~Sorry if I was sounding a bit miserable on my earlier post.

I feel like I drowning at the moment with Family deaths and impeding passing of another any hour soon.

So, I was just being a bit nowty.

For you at this time.

 

[PeteH]

WARNING, Don't read this BEFORE Breakfast!.

In the 60`s, We started to have what are known as "seaway systems". First introduced to avoid pollution of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. These consisted of large tanks with a series of weirs inside and a "Treatment Phase" which used Bio tablets to dissolve and make good the sewage from the whole vessel. The output was said to be "potable" (and I witnessed the guy who tested ours actually taste it!).

So, Just before a scheduled arrival, ours decided not to function, one of the "flap valves" in the tank was passing back and judged to be jammed by some Object. The choices now are 1) close down the whole ship and ONLY use shore side facilities, or buckets, NOT practical on passage!. Or 2) attempt to remove said "object".! "Chief`y and the Old Man got their heads together and the Engineers drew straws for the honour of entering said tank and removing object. You guessed it, I drew the short straw!. Suitably stripped and equipped, in old Jocky`s and a pair of trainers that had been kicking about in the changing room for several trips. After lowering the level as for as we could, I made entry and with some difficulty, up to my armpits in sewage I managed to remove part of the sole of a "Japanese sea boot" (flip flop to the uninitiated!), which had managed to become lodged. The exit from the tank was greeted by a blast of very cold seawater from the fire hose! and shouts of "stinker" (and worse) from my erstwhile colleagues. The smell followed me for days as did the comments, My reward was a 24 case of beer from the Chief Eng; and a second from the Captain. We mounted the offending "flip flop" on a mahogany board it was in the officer's bar for years, a "conversation piece" with my name on a small brass plaque!.



And you think emptying a cassette is a issue?.

 

[tonyidle]

WARNING, Don't read this BEFORE Breakfast!.

In the 60`s, We started to have what are known as "seaway systems". First introduced to avoid pollution of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. These consisted of large tanks with a series of weirs inside and a "Treatment Phase" which used Bio tablets to dissolve and make good the sewage from the whole vessel. The output was said to be "potable" (and I witnessed the guy who tested ours actually taste it!).

So, Just before a scheduled arrival, ours decided not to function, one of the "flap valves" in the tank was passing back and judged to be jammed by some Object. The choices now are 1) close down the whole ship and ONLY use shore side facilities, or buckets, NOT practical on passage!. Or 2) attempt to remove said "object".! "Chief`y and the Old Man got their heads together and the Engineers drew straws for the honour of entering said tank and removing object. You guessed it, I drew the short straw!. Suitably stripped and equipped, in old Jocky`s and a pair of trainers that had been kicking about in the changing room for several trips. After lowering the level as for as we could, I made entry and with some difficulty, up to my armpits in sewage I managed to remove part of the sole of a "Japanese sea boot" (flip flop to the uninitiated!), which had managed to become lodged. The exit from the tank was greeted by a blast of very cold seawater from the fire hose! and shouts of "stinker" (and worse) from my erstwhile colleagues. The smell followed me for days as did the comments, My reward was a 24 case of beer from the Chief Eng; and a second from the Captain. We mounted the offending "flip flop" on a mahogany board it was in the officer's bar for years, a "conversation piece" with my name on a small brass plaque!.



And you think emptying a cassette is a issue?.

Only 'cos I can't get fully immersed in mine .

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[olley]

WARNING, Don't read this BEFORE Breakfast!.

In the 60`s, We started to have what are known as "seaway systems". First introduced to avoid pollution of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. These consisted of large tanks with a series of weirs inside and a "Treatment Phase" which used Bio tablets to dissolve and make good the sewage from the whole vessel. The output was said to be "potable" (and I witnessed the guy who tested ours actually taste it!).

So, Just before a scheduled arrival, ours decided not to function, one of the "flap valves" in the tank was passing back and judged to be jammed by some Object. The choices now are 1) close down the whole ship and ONLY use shore side facilities, or buckets, NOT practical on passage!. Or 2) attempt to remove said "object".! "Chief`y and the Old Man got their heads together and the Engineers drew straws for the honour of entering said tank and removing object. You guessed it, I drew the short straw!. Suitably stripped and equipped, in old Jocky`s and a pair of trainers that had been kicking about in the changing room for several trips. After lowering the level as for as we could, I made entry and with some difficulty, up to my armpits in sewage I managed to remove part of the sole of a "Japanese sea boot" (flip flop to the uninitiated!), which had managed to become lodged. The exit from the tank was greeted by a blast of very cold seawater from the fire hose! and shouts of "stinker" (and worse) from my erstwhile colleagues. The smell followed me for days as did the comments, My reward was a 24 case of beer from the Chief Eng; and a second from the Captain. We mounted the offending "flip flop" on a mahogany board it was in the officer's bar for years, a "conversation piece" with my name on a small brass plaque!.



And you think emptying a cassette is a issue?.

Can't beat that Peter, best I can come up with is when I worked at Manganese and Bronze in the early 70's as a maintenance fitter. We were beneath the level of the main sewer so had to to pump our waste up to it, this was done using a thing that looked like a giant thimble, sewerage went in at the bottom on one side via a flapper valve, when the level got high enough the float operated the air compressor this fed air into the top pushing the sewage up hill via the other flapper valve. Same as yours it got blocked, and someone had to take the top off and dig it all out, I didn't get the short straw.

 

[PeteH]

Can't beat that Peter, best I can come up with is when I worked at Manganese and Bronze in the early 70's as a maintenance fitter. We were beneath the level of the main sewer so had to to pump our waste up to it, this was done using a thing that looked like a giant thimble, sewerage went in at the bottom on one side via a flapper valve, when the level got high enough the float operated the air compressor this fed air into the top pushing the sewage up hill via the other flapper valve. Same as yours it got blocked, and someone had to take the top off and dig it all out, I didn't get the short straw.

Same system they had (probably still have) at the BAC plant at Brough in Yorkshire. Female sanitary products where the main offenders.

 

[Baileysbus]

We have an agreement in our van.
I empty the toilet, she cleans the roof and deals with my under wear. Sounds like a good deal to me.

My agreement with Mrs B is that I do the oily bits up front and she does all the stuff at the back Seems to have worked so far

 

[obanvanman]

My agreement with Mrs B is that I do the oily bits up front and she does all the stuff at the back Seems to have worked so far

I hope yours appreciates how lucky she is as much as mine.

 

[Off da Grid]

One place I worked years ago we had bathrooms fitted on the top floor of the building but no access to the main waste pipes near by so one of those macerater pump things was installed behind the toilet.
You guessed it, it got blocked one day.
Luckily I wasn’t involved in sorting it, but my boss had it in hand as he ‘new about these things’.
Suffice to say off came the lid, sanitary towel removed, pump whirred into life face full of the brown stuff.
Could have been worse could have had fingers as well.

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