camping toilet recommendation

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I've been camping all kinds of different ways from backcountry camping/hiking to RV camping, but I've never brought my own toilet. Well in a couple months I'm going on a solo week long professional training trip a couple hundred miles away and I've decided to save some money and avoid staying in a hotel. I'll be tent camping for 5 days. Just to make things a little easier I want to have my own toilet. I've been researching and have all but decided to avoid the camp toilets with water tanks. I'm looking at just a toilet seat on a bucket or something similar like Reliance makes called the Hassock.
Any thoughts on these?
 
Where do you dump whatever is in the hassock?
Air temperatures can affect that, as well as the various bugs that may be around.
How stable is the base of this unit, you certainly would not want a wobble or worse at the wrong time!
 
Where do you dump whatever is in the hassock?
Air temperatures can affect that, as well as the various bugs that may be around.
How stable is the base of this unit, you certainly would not want a wobble or worse at the wrong time!

From what I've read most people just seal up the bag and throw it away just as one would dog or cat waste.
 
Advice about getting a sturdy frame with a toilet seat attached. Make sure it's tall enough to slide a five gallon plastic bucket underneath. Get yourself a box of good quality trash bags to fit the bucket. Choose for yourself whether you will dump it every trip or not. Bring along a small shovel or entrenching tool. Dig yourself a "cat hole" and bury the sack deep enough to make certain no one will accidentally uncover the sack. Cover it up nicely and be on your way.

Alternatively, you can dig a cat hole and sit your toilet over the hole, do your business, then move the toilet and cover up the hole well, and you are good to go. If you take the time to dig deeply enough and cover well, you will be doing a far better job than any other critter that does that in the woods!!!
 
If I am tent camping close to road I use a folding chair with hole cut in seat and cheap toilet seat affixed set over a well dug hole. If somewhere hole won't go a bucket and bag under seat. When I used to pack in a bit of time with a sharp ax and some cord made for some decent seats. If on the go any leaned over tree or the like worked.. degradable paper and poo and a small shovel are not a problem unless in heavy use area. Haven't noticed the wildlife casing problems and they all poo too. Little common sense goes a long way her
 
things haven't changed much in 50+ years that i've camped. 30+ years ago when i 1st. took my wife camping, tent, took a 5 gal. bucket in the tent and put a garbage bag it it. "what's that for?" might need it at night time instead of walking down to the bathhouse. don't think so. that night it thundered, wind and stormed. next morning, i heard how great the bucket was. plastic bags are easy to dispose of, or as ^^^^^ bury. i'm sure many of the members of this forum have been out of country. this thread just brought a past memory, when it was -3 deg. in korea, we had those parkas that had a flap/ tail, untied the flap, either unbuttoned the fly or dropped your pants to the knees, didn't have to worry about cleaning it up, the leaveings would freeze before landing on the ground. during the summer, the monsons, walking in ankle plus deep mud for days, the leaveings would disappear in minutes. we were informed that the locals below the river, Imjin?, used human waste in their rice fields, so we weren't allowed to eat the rice, drank the malkiejuice there before i saw a few buddies throw it up, it went down white, rice wine?, but came back up black. there were no villages where our houch was, one friend come up w/ the thought that our leaveings when in the field helped w/ crop growth when it flowed south. we did have 1 latrine in the co., about 75 yds. from the houch. not my thread, but a few added thoughts of your out of country leaveings might give some light on the op's search for a solution to a quality drop zone.
 
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I guess I ruff it a little more I just use a 5 gal pail with a garbage bag in it very cheap if you have a bucket
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My dad was a builder, I learned at age 13; NEVER OPEN A 5 GALLON BUCKET ON A JOB SITE!!! Sounds like the same rule applies to a camp site!

I picked up one of the flush tank type of camp toilets at a yard sale about 15 years ago for $20. The only complaint I have with them has nothing to do with operation or clean out. They are too short! I built a 1 x 4 box big enough for the toilet to sit inside of and made the box's top of 3/4" plywood and put shower non-slip strips on it so things would not slide around. The toilet travels in the box so we don't loose space in the vehicle. The Big Agnes, "Big House 6" tent we use has a very large "vestibule" where we leave the toilet. Like mentioned earlier, this works great at night, during thunder storms, and other delicate situations!

Ivan
 
When camping out of my truck w/o a camper, I just use a 5 gal bucket, and a cheap toilet lid placed on top. Depending on where I am, I just dump it in the woods, or use a trash bag as a liner, and dispose of properly.

Reminds me of a story. A couple years ago a buddy and I were deer hunting. On my way to my stand, I couldn't wait, and left a "deposit" along the side of the trail. Couple hours later my friend walked up to where I was hunting. On our way back down, he spotted said "deposit", and got all excited, saying there was a bear in the area. A big one. Started poking it with a stick, and noting how the bears were feeding on corn. I agreed with him, didn't have the heart to ruin his big discovery....

Larry
 
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Buy a fold up army shovel and take some t-paper. Dig a hole and squat over the hole. Fill the hole back in and go on your way. I really don't want to carry around a toilet seat or a 5 gal stinking bucket on my back.

Either that or have several packs of Imodium DM. You will not have to worry about taking a dump then.

I have heard from Vietnam vets that the enemy knew when Americans had been in an area because of their poop droppings.
 
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Oh yeah...

Buy a fold up army shovel and take some t-paper. Dig a hole and squat over the hole. Fill the hole back in and go on your way. I really don't want to carry around a toilet seat or a 5 gal stinking bucket on my back.

Either that or have several packs of Imodium DM. You will not have to worry about taking a dump then.

I have heard from Vietnam vets that the enemy knew when Americans had been in an area because of their poop droppings.

And vice-versa as well.
 
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