water bags in pick up

[lee_worsdell]

My current trailer only carries 45 gallons of fresh water plus hwt. Are their any other ways to carry extra water, have people made their own . Just wondering would like to double my water with out buying new fver

[Mile_High]

jamway wrote:

Mile High wrote:

TXiceman wrote:

jamway wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

We find most if not all Texas state parks specifically list dumping of gray water on the ground as illegal. Too many food particles and the smell attracts the little critters.

Where have you been dumping the gray water and we will not bother to go there.

Ken

Keep it in Texas!

I don't know of a campground in Texas that dumping gray water on the ground is legal but in NM and CO there are many. (Mile High note CO.)🙂

Many Forest Service campgrounds in CO. and NM. it is legal to dump gray water. Very few times will it wet an area as large as your spare tire.

We will miss getting to see you Ken but that will give us one more spot to choose from.

What are you talking to me for - talk to TXiceman, he is the one dumping in Texas which you say is illegal.

I just have more respect for others.

[laknox]

jamway wrote:

Mile High wrote:

TXiceman wrote:

jamway wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

We find most if not all Texas state parks specifically list dumping of gray water on the ground as illegal. Too many food particles and the smell attracts the little critters.

Where have you been dumping the gray water and we will not bother to go there.

Ken

Keep it in Texas!

I don't know of a campground in Texas that dumping gray water on the ground is legal but in NM and CO there are many. (Mile High note CO.)🙂

Many Forest Service campgrounds in CO. and NM. it is legal to dump gray water. Very few times will it wet an area as large as your spare tire.

We will miss getting to see you Ken but that will give us one more spot to choose from.

Personally, I'd have no problem in dumping my grey water when boondocking. Hell, the trees in the forest =need= the water here in AZ. 🙂 In extremis, I'd dump all, or part, of my black tank, too, but it would be as far off the beaten track as I could get.

Lyle

[jamway]

Mile High wrote:

TXiceman wrote:

jamway wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

We find most if not all Texas state parks specifically list dumping of gray water on the ground as illegal. Too many food particles and the smell attracts the little critters.

Where have you been dumping the gray water and we will not bother to go there.

Ken

Keep it in Texas!

I don't know of a campground in Texas that dumping gray water on the ground is legal but in NM and CO there are many. (Mile High note CO.)🙂

Many Forest Service campgrounds in CO. and NM. it is legal to dump gray water. Very few times will it wet an area as large as your spare tire.

We will miss getting to see you Ken but that will give us one more spot to choose from.

[allen8106]

lee worsdell wrote:
My current trailer only carries 45 gallons of fresh water plus hwt. Are their any other ways to carry extra water, have people made their own . Just wondering would like to double my water with out buying new fver

I have the same issue. We don't boondock much but this past weekend we had no water. The only container I has was a six gallon potable water jug. A real pain to haul 8 times to fill the tank when the fresh water was 2 miles away. I'm considering a food grade 55 gallon plastic drum with a 12 volt pump, with a dip tub, alligator clips on the power leads to hook to my truck battery and a discharge tube to stick into the water tank inlet. When we camp in cooler weather like it is now we don't take quite as much with us so we should have room for the drum. I figure one trip with 55 gallons has to be way better than 8 trips with six gallons.

[Mootpoint]

bpounds wrote:

Mootpoint wrote:
I have 2 - 45 gallon water bladders from Camping World. I use one for freshwater and one for waste water.
The fresh one is self explanatory. I fill the waste one with a portable macerator and using a system I rigged up of fittings I pump it out with the same macerator.
I have used this system many times in remote parks and while boondocking in Quartzsite.

Try not to mix those up, K? 🙂

The DW went mad with a felt marker. It would be very hard to do now.

:S

Just Don't do it on a morning after.

[bpounds]

Mootpoint wrote:
I have 2 - 45 gallon water bladders from Camping World. I use one for freshwater and one for waste water.
The fresh one is self explanatory. I fill the waste one with a portable macerator and using a system I rigged up of fittings I pump it out with the same macerator.
I have used this system many times in remote parks and while boondocking in Quartzsite.

Try not to mix those up, K? 🙂

[laknox]

Most newer trailers all seem to lack a gravity fill, so you're likely to need a 12v transfer pump. Dumb thing to do, but they didn't ask my opinion. Personally, I carry 2 of the blue 7 gallon jugs and fill them when I water down the trailer on the way to our dry camp site.

Lyle

[Mootpoint]

I have 2 - 45 gallon water bladders from Camping World. I use one for freshwater and one for waste water.
The fresh one is self explanatory. I fill the waste one with a portable macerator and using a system I rigged up of fittings I pump it out with the same macerator.
I have used this system many times in remote parks and while boondocking in Quartzsite.

[Mile_High]

TXiceman wrote:

jamway wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

We find most if not all Texas state parks specifically list dumping of gray water on the ground as illegal. Too many food particles and the smell attracts the little critters.

Where have you been dumping the gray water and we will not bother to go there.

Ken

Keep it in Texas!

[Me_Again]

TXiceman wrote:

jamway wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

We find most if not all Texas state parks specifically list dumping of gray water on the ground as illegal. Too many food particles and the smell attracts the little critters.

Where have you been dumping the gray water and we will not bother to go there.

Ken

I went there rather quietly! Chris

[TXiceman]

jamway wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

We find most if not all Texas state parks specifically list dumping of gray water on the ground as illegal. Too many food particles and the smell attracts the little critters.

Where have you been dumping the gray water and we will not bother to go there.

Ken

[jamway]

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

We use 7 gallon blue jugs and use a 12 volt pump to put water in the trailer.

We have camped in many campgrounds where you could run the gray water into an area where the trees are.

[Timbodeuce]

TXiceman wrote:
AS pointed out....water is heavy and is 8.33 #/gallon. Can the tow vehicle carry the added weight. Next, will your waste tanks store the extra volume. You can't dump it on the ground.

Ken

Many National Parks allow grey water to be released on the ground. We don't put lotsa nasty stuff in our grey tank, so I periodically do bleed a little off when necessary and LEGAL!

[Timbodeuce]

lee worsdell wrote:
thanks hondavalk I should of explained my self little better. dry docking is when I need it going to a few big events this year and they don't have water trucks or hook ups. seems I always run out even if we conserve shutting off showing then on when lathered up. I just found a 45 gallon bag that camping world sells

I use this bladder and it works great. I bought an inexpensive 12 volt transfer pump from Harbor Freight and use it to fill onboard tank. The bladder folds up to about the size of a set of sheets and stows nicely. It even comes with fittings and a repair kit. You might also purchase a "water thief" fitting ($5:00) from camping world. this allows you to hook on to smooth unthreadded hose bibs to fill the bladder.