07-25-2017, 09:00 PM
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Old Far...er...Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Plano, TX resident since 1998.
Posts: 3,965
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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...
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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.
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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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