Composting Toilet
Hi, Has anyone switch to the composting toilet? Is so, please expound on your experience with the conversion. Thanks, Bill
Forum Discussion
Just curious.... is the camper above a TC? or would it be considered a Class C?
In many states a traditional Truck Camper is considered cargo... this beautiful camper has been built into a "box" truck.
It has always been my understanding that "truck campers" are slide in and removable with built in jacks.
This camper doesn't have jacks that I can see in the pictures... it doesn't appear to be removeable from the truck. The truck can't be used alone.
Why do I care? The outside of my truck camper is shot... the filon is toast... I have considered getting a "box" and moving the inside of my wonderful camper into the box... moving my windows, and the side door, etc.
Looking at the camper in the picture.... It is important to ne to recognize that it doesn't sit in the bed of a truck....especially since this means the floor of this camper appears to be close to 8 foot wide instead of a real truck campers floor with it's 4' foot wide base.... The much wider base makes room for the wood burning stove and other features that probably wouldn't fit in a "real" truck camper...
Note: I have seen wood stoves installed in old school bus hunting "campers"... no bath rooms in these...just an ice chest and jugs of water... air mattresses, etc
The box truck pictured above might even have room for a composting toilet if the other limitations mentioned to the toilet in the original posters thread are overcome. My guess is that most box truck conversions probably have porta potties
In my own mind I can see moving the components of my truck camper into the box... but it would no longer be cargo...or a truck camper.
Bryan, thanks for teaching me lessons... it comes at a timely point in my RV life... at least something to consider transitioning the Lance 1161 to a box or to follow PJ's rebuild.
.... something you have to understand... for me and Janet (and many others) our truck camper is a recreational vehicle... we have a permanant house that is home...that we return to, a place to store our "stuff"... we do everything in life by choice, we have few limitations that we can't easily overcome at home or on the road. We never stay in one place longer than the capacity of our holding tanks allow... we have never "dumped" our biohazard waste on the ground (though I have been known to pee on a tree) Getting potable water is more likely the limiting factor... otherwise being "off grid" is no problem at all.
In many states a traditional Truck Camper is considered cargo... this beautiful camper has been built into a "box" truck.
It has always been my understanding that "truck campers" are slide in and removable with built in jacks.
This camper doesn't have jacks that I can see in the pictures... it doesn't appear to be removeable from the truck. The truck can't be used alone.
Why do I care? The outside of my truck camper is shot... the filon is toast... I have considered getting a "box" and moving the inside of my wonderful camper into the box... moving my windows, and the side door, etc.
Looking at the camper in the picture.... It is important to ne to recognize that it doesn't sit in the bed of a truck....especially since this means the floor of this camper appears to be close to 8 foot wide instead of a real truck campers floor with it's 4' foot wide base.... The much wider base makes room for the wood burning stove and other features that probably wouldn't fit in a "real" truck camper...
Note: I have seen wood stoves installed in old school bus hunting "campers"... no bath rooms in these...just an ice chest and jugs of water... air mattresses, etc
The box truck pictured above might even have room for a composting toilet if the other limitations mentioned to the toilet in the original posters thread are overcome. My guess is that most box truck conversions probably have porta potties
In my own mind I can see moving the components of my truck camper into the box... but it would no longer be cargo...or a truck camper.
Bryan, thanks for teaching me lessons... it comes at a timely point in my RV life... at least something to consider transitioning the Lance 1161 to a box or to follow PJ's rebuild.
.... something you have to understand... for me and Janet (and many others) our truck camper is a recreational vehicle... we have a permanant house that is home...that we return to, a place to store our "stuff"... we do everything in life by choice, we have few limitations that we can't easily overcome at home or on the road. We never stay in one place longer than the capacity of our holding tanks allow... we have never "dumped" our biohazard waste on the ground (though I have been known to pee on a tree) Getting potable water is more likely the limiting factor... otherwise being "off grid" is no problem at all.
