Sewer solution - worth it?

I love our SS. We boondock a lot and come home with stuff in the tanks. My city sewer company charges $15 to dump. So I go home and at my leisure clean my tanks.
My sewer cleanout is 30' away. I have a section of old 1" hard fire hose (reel line) that connects to the SS. A garden hose and a y-adapter to the tank flusher and I am in business.
Does it use water? I suppose so. At 1.5 GPM off my faucet and 10 minutes of flushing that's 15 gallons of water. But I sit quietly and empty my tanks in peace, never worrying about people impatiently waiting behind me.
In my personal experience, it is the best way to dump at home. On the road I have a slinky hose. And I hate it.

My complaint about the sewer solution is that it uses gallons and gallons of fresh water to do a job that can be done by a few watts of electricity

That's why I use a macerator pump when I need one.

Some folks talk about the "Woosh Factor" when dumping via the 3" hose.

You loose that too with both the sewer solution and the macerator.

old guy wrote:
they are slow and use a heck of alot of water

My thought as well. Although the sewer solution does have its place.
It allows you to dump up hill and works similar to a macerator.
Nevertheless if I am using a traditional full hook up site or at a dumping station I prefer the simplicity and speed of the standard 3" stinky slinky

I own a SS but have not used it for a couple of years. When I was using it, I loved it because we always stay at full hookup sites. I would dump, back flush, finish dumping and then put a clean hose away. I did not have to use water except to back flush.

Then one time we stayed at a site that did not have sewer. I used the stinky slinky at the dump and was amazed at the stuff that came out of the tank due to the force of the dumping due to the larger hose. I use the SS occasionally to back flush but hardly have to due the the force of the stinky slinky flush.

Is it good? Yes. But I still prefer normal use of the stinky slinky.

I've looked at, thought about the Sewer Solution a few times. Personally, I think this product is another example of, like the previous poster said, over-complicating a very simple task.

Whether you spend the $$ for a sewer solution or not, you really still have to keep a conventional sewer hose and fittings, for the times you don't have full hookups and have to use a dump station. And, if you get a good hose and take care of it, you will NOT be replacing it every year as previously suggested. We've been using same one for as long as I can remember. Soooo, the argument about $$ saving from not having to buy a conventional hose and fittings really does not 'hold water', haha. :)

Basically, I think it boils down to this:

Pros:
1. Allows you to avoid using a sewer hose, so you don't have to put away a hose that is prone to hold a little water inside.
2. Allows you to push waste water uphill if you need to.

Cons:
1. The process take a good bit longer (making it unrealistic to use at dump stations)
2. Uses up a bunch more water.
3. More potential to get clogged up.
4. Costs more $$, since you have to have a regular hose, either way

Anyway, since we camp frequently at places that don't have full hookups, and never have the need to push waste water uphill...the cons out-weigh the pros significantly for us, so we use a conventional setup.

There are an endless number of trinkets and toys to "solve" all sorts of problems for RVr's, and dumping tanks seems to be a big area.

After trying several I think the problem is way over complicated. Another member "Golfknut" posted this picture of his setup, mine is almost identical.

I never unhook the slinky and never go through the cleaning ritual I see so often when waiting at a dump station. This setup is clean, efficient, quick, and fail safe with no mechanical parts to fail. I have a 10 foot hose hooked up and carry another 10 feet if needed. When finished dumping I pull a couple feet of hose from the top and coil it in the tray, I have a screw on cap that goes into the pipe, I push the hose back in with the cap and screw in it in. Total time about 30 seconds.

Three years and hundreds of hook ups with my Rhino. I really don't see the big difference with the solution. We take ours out of its plastic container and put it back in after the use. Now invent one that connects without handling anything, that I will buy!:h

I should have been clearer, as I didn't intend to imply it was permissible in any way to dump tanks in the woods.

If I'm boondocking and dumping tanks into a tote tank, I put the tote tank in my pickup truck's bed and use a macerator pump into that. Then I can drive to a dump station, attach a short sewage hose to the tote tank and let gravity do the work.

At a FHU site, I've never had issues using a plain old, boring sewage hose, so i just stick with that.

The Sewer Solution may be useful if one has access to running water, and has to pump slightly uphill to a "clean-out". However, it does use a good amount of water.

they are slow and use a heck of alot of water

mlts22 wrote:
The only downside is that it requires water to empty the tanks, and when boondocking, that may not be present.

When boondocking you should be emptying your black tank at a sanidump or dump station anyways. Most have a water service.