Attaching dump hose to dump hole?

I do a quick test with the grey water to test the connection(s), and then dump the black if everything is OK. I've heard that some people use a large horseshoe to help hold things in place. Usually there is a rock or something heavy nearby.

In WA state many of the state parks have a horizontal cast iron fitting that is too high for many of the expandable support systems. That's a different sort of problem.

We were spending the winter several years ago in a southern state park with full hookups. After about a week I noticed my sewer hose was out of the hole. I put it back, but within a few days noticed it was back out. I was telling one of the park rangers about it and he said it happens once in awhile. For some reason there was a pressure at times that would pop a hose out. My curer to that was place a cloth bag with about 10 pounds of sand in it over the hose. No more problem. I carry the sand bag with me now in the water bay, if dumping and I don't have any other way to weight the sewer hose I get the bag out.

A foot is your best friend!

dons2346 wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
IF using a dump station......foot, rock, dump lid..something to hold hose in place. IT WILL jump out when a full tank of poop comes flowing down that slinky sewer hose......not a fun thing to deal with when others are waiting in-line to dump.

If at a CG FHU site....most have threaded connections and the step-threaded fitting screws in and stays put.
If CG site isn't a threaded type (just a smooth line) then again something to hold hose in place.......otherwise poop all over the site which can be the neighbors front yard :S

Yup.

Maybe "Yup"' but step-threaded or not,I don't trust any of them to stay put when dumping.

YMMV

Old-Biscuit wrote:
IF using a dump station......foot, rock, dump lid..something to hold hose in place. IT WILL jump out when a full tank of poop comes flowing down that slinky sewer hose......not a fun thing to deal with when others are waiting in-line to dump.

If at a CG FHU site....most have threaded connections and the step-threaded fitting screws in and stays put.
If CG site isn't a threaded type (just a smooth line) then again something to hold hose in place.......otherwise poop all over the site which can be the neighbors front yard :S

Yup.

IF using a dump station......foot, rock, dump lid..something to hold hose in place. IT WILL jump out when a full tank of poop comes flowing down that slinky sewer hose......not a fun thing to deal with when others are waiting in-line to dump.

If at a CG FHU site....most have threaded connections and the step-threaded fitting screws in and stays put.
If CG site isn't a threaded type (just a smooth line) then again something to hold hose in place.......otherwise poop all over the site which can be the neighbors front yard :S

You'll have to be the judge. If your hose is taught then there's a chance it will come out at the worst time. You'll wan't to either hold it in, use more hose so it isn't so tight and/or get a support system for it to take the strain off.

Kyte wrote:
Newbie here..

I have yet to have my first experience dumping. My main concern is after putting the step connector into the dump hole, do I need to put something on it so it doesn't come out of the hole or will it stay in by its self. I would think that once you pull the handle there's a lot of water pressure coming down that tube.

Any foresight would be helpful..

Thanks
Kyte in NW PA

While what you described here has never happened to me, I always either hold one foot on the hose while draining or place a rock or other object that might be close by on the hose.

Some hose/dump holes connections are fairly tight,but I never trust them to hold the
hose securely by itself.