How do you carry Blue Tote?

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Mine rides on a tilt down carrier I made under my TH lucky for me it fits up between two of the cross members as well. Have not needed it for some time now, but as some will say its better to have and not need as to need and not have.

I only used one once in the 20 or so years of camping in a RV. And it belonged to a neighbor. I had bought about 300' of drinking water hose, and used that to refill my 100 gallon fresh water tank. The campground had a few water facets around the grounds, but not near the sites.

While filling my tank, the neighbor offered to dump our gray water in exchange for filling his fresh water. I thought that was pretty nice of him, it was barely any effort to fill his tank.

My thought for full timing, if I have a trailer, and I love to spend 2 - 3 weeks at a time camping, is to buy a fresh water tank for the bed of the pickup, and then another tank in the 30 - 45 gallon range to carry black or gray water to the dump station. I would have a macerator pump too - actually already have one. The pump will go uphill a few feet. At least far enough to fill the tank inside the pickup bed.

If I kept using a motorhome, then a tank for the towed vehicle, and just dump the tanks by moving the motorhome like I do now. I usually dump the gray tanks in the boondocks, the plants normally need some water. And I bury it about 1 foot underground, so the bugs do not get near it. You can not dump ANY water on the ground in a Federal Campground, or any organized campground, only when you our out in the desert or forest where nobody else is likely to camp within 100' of you.

I can camp for 2 weeks with my 100 gallon fresh water tank. The 59 gallon black tank will last more than a month, and by then it needs to be drained, full or not!

You can extend the gray water tank in a couple of ways. I have a bathtub, and can plug it, use a dishpan to move most of the water into the black tank. I can also save a gallon to use as flush water for the next day. I can also do the dishes in a dishpan, and dump that water in the bushes, just like the tent campers do.

My buddy has a custom 40' bus built on a MCI chassis. He had them install a 100 gallon gray tank above the black water tank, and valves in such a way that he can dump the gray tank only, or dump some or all into the black tank, as his requirements can change. I think he has a 150 gallon stainless fresh water tank, and 100 gallon black tank. He can dry camp weeks at a time.

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Fred.

Sprink-Fitter wrote:

wmoses wrote:
Bed of truck also.

Old Biscuit - How do you manage without a tote when the duration of the stay is longer than one tankful would permit? Do you break camp to go and dump?

I take the tank when I know I will be staying at a park without sewer and am staying longer than 2 nights.

2 nights, what size tanks do you have, 5 gallons?

My wife and I can go about 11 days on the black tank, but only about 5 on the kitchen gray tank. If you're filling up in two days, are you trying to control how much water you're using?

wmoses wrote:
Bed of truck also.

Old Biscuit - How do you manage without a tote when the duration of the stay is longer than one tankful would permit? Do you break camp to go and dump?

I take the tank when I know I will be staying at a park without sewer and am staying longer than 2 nights.

2 nights, what size tanks do you have, 5 gallons?

In one of the storage compartments, thought about on the ladder but that looks "beverly hillbilly" plus the UV problem. I am thinking seriously about making a bracket under the 5er attached to the frame to put the blue tote an spare tire. :)

wmoses wrote:
Bed of truck also.

Old Biscuit - How do you manage without a tote when the duration of the stay is longer than one tankful would permit? Do you break camp to go and dump?

I take the tank when I know I will be staying at a park without sewer and am staying longer than 2 nights.

By the time my waste tanks are full...fresh water tank is empty so time to go dump and refill.

If at a site with water.......can go full week before needing to dump.

50 gallon black, 50 gallon grey and 28 gallon galley (which I tie together with grey giving me 78 gallon grey capacity).

Thought tote was going to be useful.....I was wrong. :S
For me it's just not worth the hassle. Easier to just hookup and go dump.

After having one and using it a couple of times...........I would rather take rv to dump and be done with it. Even if I had smaller capacity waste tanks. To me hooking up rv/go dump/reset rv back up is not a big deal. Filling/dragging/dumping/repeat as necessary to use tote IS :B

Bed of Truck.

Bed of truck also.

Old Biscuit - How do you manage without a tote when the duration of the stay is longer than one tankful would permit? Do you break camp to go and dump?

I take the tank when I know I will be staying at a park without sewer and am staying longer than 2 nights.

normally bed of truck, but on some long trips we did carry it on the ladder. we purchased a 13k a/c cover and cut a slit for the handle end. this kept the sun off of it and looked somewhat better for travel.