Deluxe Field Toilet

[Steve Herschbach]

OK, I have to admit the years are sneaking up on me. Comfort takes on more meaning the older I get though I am way behind most people in that department. Roughing it in a minimalistic fashion is just ingrained in me. That is changing however.

It used to be just a squat over a hole behind a bush. Seems like these things take longer now and my haunches don't like squatting for long - help, I can't get up! So for several years I have used one of those small, cheap folding toilet seats for extended field operations. They are rather precarious and really too small but they get the job done.

I finally decided I wanted something a bit more upscale for camp use that is large enough to straddle a deep hole for a field privy. A trip to Walmart for a cheap steel folding chair and a soft padded toilet seat gave me what I wanted for about $20. Just cut the hole to fit with a jigsaw, a little smoothing with a file, and mount the seat. Only catch was lid would not fold up and stay up due to the chair back and so it just gets set aside while unit is in use.

I now survey the desert in comfort from my new field throne when camped in one location for more than a day. A worthwhile upgrade!

[tboykin]

Made me laugh.

I'm still in the squat-behind-the-brush phase, but I make sure to leave a nice-sized fishing sinker everywhere I do my duty.

Careful where you dig at Rye Patch!

[IdahoPeg]

At my age I'm at the "give me my self-contained toy hauler trailer at base camp" to do my duty! ;-)

[klunker]

 Dang! If I had one of them things I wouldn't have to pay so close attention to my camp diet.

Uhm, Steve- I hate to ask, but you do fill your holes don't you?

[Hobo]

I may have to resort to something like that when I get old.    ....... older

[1515Art]

Put some wheels on it, hang a cooler on one side, a BBQ on the other and finally one of JP's detector arms mounted off to the front and you'd never have to get up...patent pending.

[~LARGO~]

I received this message in my mail inbox just now.  I read the introduction and description of the contributors needs, and ultimate successes, never knowing who that contributor might be.  I finished the introduction, trying to think of possible names of that person who might most appreciate such a convenience, the only name that kept coming up in my mind, was "Doc".  Yes, that Doc.  The man who we newbies cut our first gold hunting teeth on, reading his funny stories, and buying his neat supplies.  HE knows how to camp for sure.  Even to having his own enclosed power shower to wash the Nevada desert away.  Having said all that, your END result turned out to be very novel and useful.  As with all novel inventions, the first is the one who you and others might build on, and improve a bit, beyond it's primary function.  One idea I had was to have a Costco chair I saw available in the past week, with an attached side table, and cup holder, modified with your idea here.  That would be GREAT I thought, total leisure and comfort, where you can read and drink while you, well, you know...  Thanks for being a great source of information, Steve.  Your "Detector Prospector" is a great source of knowledge which I look forward to daily!

~LARGO~ 

 

[beatup]

I Like It.

[Rege-PA]

Steve that is a great idea!   I`ll cut one out tomorrow.

[Ridge Runner]

You know it's time when you can't get up and then you fall back in it. At the same time you find out that your poo stinks.

Chuck