Opinion - Best Honey Pot

rhagfo wrote:

Corky12 wrote:
We just hook up our trailer and tow it to the dump station then back to the site and park. All tanks can be emptied and flushed in one trip. Less margin for messy errors. Thirty minutes and done.

X2 to this, or learn to conserve H2O.

DW and I can go eight days/nights on tanks alone if we watch water usage. This is with a shower every day, and doing dishes once a day.

Ask her not to clutter the counters with stuff so you can take it to the dump station. :)

2012Coleman wrote:

Chuck_thehammer wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:
Does the barker 42 tote tank have pneumatic tires? If not, get one that does or upgrade it. Also, you don't manually pull it to the dump station, you put the handle on your hitch ball and tow it.

Like this one

YES, the 32 and 42 are pneumatic. ..

I purchased the 32 gallon last month.. but mine came without any air in tires. so a pump is handy. and all the bolts were loose..

good unit.
the hose from the tote to the camper.. I could not assemble it.. (very cheap)... and it needs tote to camper special hose.. not the common hose... camping world and others have this at 15.00 dollars.

I decided the 32 gallon. as my trailer has (2) 40 gallon tanks.

but I am not going to move 40 gallons and the 35 pounds of tote by hand to the truck.

where I am currently camping the dump station is 1/2 mile from the campground, on a public road.. so the better wheels/tires/and grease-able bearing are great. (grease fittings)

Grease fittings? Really? Where did you get it? The one I linked to doesn't look like it would have them.

the WEB photo is like 3 years old... Baker upgraded the wheels/tires .. then the bearings and grease fittings..

I ordered mime from Amazon about 45 days ago... standard item...
4 tires have inter-tubes.. normal tire air chuck... standard size grease fittings.

JWRoberts wrote:
Shhhh. Don't tell anyone but many of us replace our dump pipe cover with one that has a garden hose connector on it. We then use a 25 ft garden hose to drain our grey water every night at different spots around our campsite. Your BWT should be good for about 10 days with two users.

Now to start dodging bullets.... LOL...

LOL...not something that I would encourage, but on a similar note.... I bought one of those caps with the small hose fitting on it. My idea was being able to dump our gray tank into our septic clean out. I need to go find a long hose for it to reach. At least it's all downhill...lol

If I was looking for a handy solution, I'd be thinking long and hard about using a pump and a hose to load a tank in the pickup bed or on the tailgate. Pulling one of these honey wagons just seems like an accident waiting to happen.

OK, there are many ways to handle waste water depending on how conservative you are and how many people you have. DW & I can go a week on the black tank but we're gone during daytime. If you use cg bathrooms and reserve the TT toilet for night runs you should be able to do the week.
My gray water disposal has evolved from a couple of 5-gallon buckets with pour spouts (free), to a Harbor Freight 12V pump and $10 30-gallon barrel, and now a macerator pump into the 30g barrel fitted with a 1-1/2" dump hose.
The macerator uses 3/4" pond tubing since it's light and flexible. The 1-1/2" is sump pump discharge hose (cheap) controlled by a RV gate valve. The bonus is that I can now stay 2 weeks in a no-hookup cg and dump my gray and black tanks and also dump & flush my tanks at home. The 3" RV hose still gets used at FHU cg's.

We have the 18 gallon Thetford tote tank. Haven't used it much but when you need one it really helps. At 18 gallons, it's light enough for two of us to lift into the back of the truck so you don't have to tow it slowly and noisily way down to where the dump station is.

Even at only 18 gallons, it's still big and the only place for it is in the back of the truck. Some have made something to store them under their camper. Someone had a pic of one mounted using a BAL spare tire carrier.

Some have replaced the stock plastic wheels with pneumatic ones. I'll probably do that one of these days. Barker has a model with pneumatic tires.

You can buy a pillow (bladder) tank for grey water like here. I wish you could get one for black water then you could just roll it up when not needed.

Here is a top 10 review list, except only has 7 on the list... Top 10 review I didn't know that some tanks only have 2 wheels. Think I'd rather have 4 wheels.

my reasons I dislike the 2 wheel versions.

weight to lift one end.. heavy.
controlling the speed the water leaves the tank.
making sure when you lift one end of tote .. the other end of hose does NOT move from the ground port.

end of dislikes.

the barker pneumatic tires do not make any noise going down the road..
the pneumatic tires go over gravel Well.
the metal wheel bearings can do 20 mph.. without any heat. 1/2 mile anyway.
the 32 gallon when empty. lift front wheels to truck tailgate, let front wheels rest on gate, raise rear of tote to get tote into bed of truck.

and the waste gate valve is real good at avoiding mistakes/spills.

my opinion