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Old 07-25-2017, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by luke strawwalker
It was common practice in most areas to have a "privy" or outhouse even up until about the 1940's or 50's...
I had relatives in the 60's and 70's in central Kentucky that lived out in the country. Indoor plumbing was often limited. One great aunt had a plumbed kitchen, but would go next door to her daughter's house to bathe. And there was a good old fashioned privy out back that old Billy Doug recalls using a few times

In fact, the street I grew up adjoined an old farm house that had a privy in back. It was no longer in service, but it was next to the garden so it was used as a shed for storing garden tools.


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...no great technology is needed, just build a portable wooden shed on runners, dig a hole about four feet deep, take a dump in it til it's full, then dig another hole a few feet away and cover the old one over with the dirt removed once you move the shed over the new hole.
For the effort they were putting into digging their extra large holes (in the video) , they weren't that far from digging a septic tank hole. Assuming the soil conditions are sufficient, that's a hole that only needs to be dug once (in theory).

Doug

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