Will Motorhomers become hated

[Northernraider]

Well MTV I have been motorhoming throughout Europe for some 40 years using every kind of stop-over possible. I've wild camped on Med beaches for months at a time etc etc. To date I have never seen or heard of a single camper digging a hole to bury the contents of their motorhome cassette. I've seen them disposed of many different ways but never into a pre-dug hole.

Then youve led a sheltered life as it happens quite a bit and has done for years


But the fact you've not seen or heard it means those doing it are discrete like myself no one has seen me digging a hole and burrying cassette waste either ..or emptying a pee bottle

Nor have they found any trace of it afterwards

 

[tonyidle]

Why does this come as such a surprise while most "off-piste" campers routinely use this method to enable them to continue using their on-board wc while camping. Have you never been under pressure from other family members to let them use the full toilet. A cassette toilet soon fills with family usage.
Not nice to admit but off-piste campers do empty their toilets in non official disposal places and will continue to do so.

Burying it works well?

 

[The general]

Reminds me of army life , stationed in places with limited facilities we ‘ constructed ‘ desert rose , a traffic cone tipped upside down , into a dug pit , as a urninal . And number 2 , again dig hole and let it compost . No problem .

 

[Potty]

Well MTV I have been motorhoming throughout Europe for some 40 years using every kind of stop-over possible. I've wild camped on Med beaches for months at a time etc etc. To date I have never seen or heard of a single camper digging a hole to bury the contents of their motorhome cassette. I've seen them disposed of many different ways but never into a pre-dug hole.

I have seen this once but by a caravanner on one of the Hebrides. Dug a hole on the beach just above the tide line. There was a CDP a few miles away but obviously too lazy to take his cassette there.

We did once empty ours in some sand dunes, well in land. Dug a 4 ft deep hole; contents disappeared in seconds.

 

[nicholsong]

Then youve led a sheltered life as it happens quite a bit and has done for years


But the fact you've not seen or heard it means those doing it are discrete like myself no one has seen me digging a hole and burrying cassette waste either ..or emptying a pee bottle

Nor have they found any trace of it afterwards

I agree.

I have done it 3-4 times(mostly before the 2nd cassette) and carry a folding shovel for the purpose(bought in Callender). The occasions were in remote places in Scotland and on the moors in N. England.

Geoff

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[Northernraider]

I have seen this once but by a caravanner on one of the Hebrides. Dug a hole on the beach just above the tide line. There was a CDP a few miles away but obviously too lazy to take his cassette there.

We did once empty ours in some sand dunes, well in land. Dug a 4 ft deep hole; contents disappeared in seconds.

Personally id never bury it on a beach or where theres any chance of it being dug up or disturbed.
Anytime ive done it has been in woodland or grass and once holes filled in its been covered over with branches etc so you'd never know it was there.

 

[Potty]

Around the Ullapool area early this year, every car park and lay-by had the following sign, with a trowel attached

 

[Potty]

Personally id never bury it on a beach or where theres any chance of it being dug up or disturbed.
Anytime ive done it has been in woodland or grass and once holes filled in its been covered over with branches etc so you'd never know it was there.

We did not do it on a beach! It was well away from the sea In vegetation covered dunes and even before we filled in the hole, all signs had drained away.

 

[buttons]

Trust me Buttons, it was once the only way that you could organise a rally, and whilst some places now have tank facilities, digging an "elsan pit" for all the campers to empty toilets in is still common practice. It usually falls upon the stewards to organise back filling the hole in the ground, although it is usually the farmer uses his tractor to dig the hole and backfill when the liquid level has dropped after a day or two after the rally has finished. More than a few times, I have used the shovel and shown potential new stewards how to backfill safely without risk of splashing

Cant say that I have ever attended a rally TB1 but digging a communal cesspit sounds like a good way to go, From what I've heard about the way alcohol flows at these meets, I'm surprised nobody has fallen in it.

 

[two]

I've heard someone claim to have emptied one down a rabbit hole...

Does it matter what the contents really were?
The intention is what matters.

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[Gaston aires]

When you chuck it out the door shout “ gardylou” then its okay.
Phil upmecassette.

 

[Reusables]

YES ..hardly anyone likes us motorhomers.
People without them are jealous.

Residents hate us parking along seafronts.

Dog walkers hate us taking up too much space in country parks.

Shoppers hate us the the supermarket carparks.

Literally anyone who doesn't have or one or owns a site hates us......

Ok hates a bit strong...well maybe not I have had more than few people moaning.

YouTube hash bloody tag amazing kool..stoked .beach babe half naked reading a book whilst looking at the ocean VANLIFE ...now they are the ones who are pushing the limits.. overstaying their welcome.. organising VANLIFE mini festivals in the local woods carpark...
Try and talk sense to them and get a mouth full of hippy throw back sayings from Woodstock...or just two fingers or one finger.

You tube is to blame not us..

Now I'm off you watch what they've been getting up to today.

 

[TheAleMan]

Trust me Buttons, it was once the only way that you could organise a rally, and whilst some places now have tank facilities, digging an "elsan pit" for all the campers to empty toilets in is still common practice. It usually falls upon the stewards to organise back filling the hole in the ground, although it is usually the farmer uses his tractor to dig the hole and backfill when the liquid level has dropped after a day or two after the rally has finished. More than a few times, I have used the shovel and shown potential new stewards how to backfill safely without risk of splashing

Yep, been on one or two of those. Nice and deep..no splash back jobbie dun.