How To Empty RV Grey and Black Tanks Without A Dump Station On Site! Boondocking Tip

sometimes my crazy ideas are actually my good ones but I guarantee it this one it's actually better than the time I tried to melt down plastic to make a face mask that's a guarantee [Music] how's it going welcome to another all about RVs I'm jarred Gillis and today we're gonna be sharing with you a technique that some might say is a little risky a little crazy but for us it's actually been working well so I want to share with you our technique for how we empty our RV tanks when we don't have hookups and we don't have hookups nearby in our areas and we don't want to tear down our RV pack it all up so that we have to go to a dump station so that's what this is all about today and the products that we have that we're going to be using today to show you what we do is we have a tote some kind of a container to be able to to handle your wastewater and then we're going to be using the macerator so those are going to be the two key components in what we're doing here today so I'm sure that you've seen these totes around the one that we have is the thetford tote - it's the 27 gallon has some decent features some nice features that come with it it has this level indicator to make sure that you don't overflow it you can hook it directly to your tanks well today we're going to place that tank in the back of our truck so that we can travel across town to get to a dump station so if you're wanting to know the exact products of what we're using here today I'm gonna put a link in the description below so it's easy for users to to check those out if you're interested in doing something like this so let's move on to the mass Raider now a mass Raider is something that maybe not all our viewers know about but it's basically a pump that's going to hook to your wastewater system and it allows you to dump your great tanks and your black tanks it's going to basically be a garbage disposal it's going to make all the solids and everything else smaller so that it can go through a smaller hose and go farther distances and even be able to be pumped up hill so that's what a macerator is I know it's not pretty but that's what we're dealing with today now that you get a picture of kind of the direction that I'm heading I cannot stress this enough as I communicate this to you is if you're going to do this you want to check every connection every time you do this and test it you do not want to take anything for granted otherwise there's going to be user error system failure and it's not going to be fun we haven't had any failure yet but I just I can assume I would not be having fun if this failed the macerator that we're going to be using today is made by flojet and there's a chart that you can look at it that comes in the manual and it'll show you how far you can pump or how high an elevation you can pump up depending on the size of hose that you use so we're just gonna be using your your typical garden hose and we're not going to be pumping far I think we just have a 25-foot hose and it's just gonna be pumping to the back of our truck that's right next to our RV now that we're ready to hook up our masquerader a great little tip is we're gonna put a clear 45 degree elbow on to our waste water system that way we can see if we still have fluid that's backing up against that pump and also angles it down so that it's not half air and and half water when we're trying to pump and then you deal with a mess at the end so if we can get that water to go down into the pump it's gonna make things a lot easier and cleaner because the system actually works out fairly clean if you do it right so we're gonna hook the macerator up to the the clear 45-degree elbow and then we're gonna check our seals I checked the seals every time I hook this system up to the garden hose we're gonna connect that to the macerator and we're gonna make sure our fittings are tight and then we're going to make all of our connections at the tote that's now in the back of the truck now I had to make my own little fitting I'm sure there was an easier way to do this but these are the parts that I had and it worked for us so I needed to get from the larger three inch hose to be able to get to the garden hose and be able to have a direct attachment that made it real simple I then need to connect the 12 volt to the macerator to get everything working so now that I've checked everything over I'm going to test it with some fresh water I'm going to if I'm going to do my black tanks I'm still gonna test it with some grey water first because I want to know that everything is connected well before I dive into dealing with the black tank so I test it with the grey water and once I see everything is good water tight no issues I'll actually set a timer on my phone to begin my my black tank because I know to fill that tote this macerator can do that in about three and a half actually it takes like just over four minutes so I'm gonna set my timer for three and a half so that way I can stop pumping the black water tank and be able to flush it out with the grey at the end so at this time we have pumped our waste water that we wanted to we flushed out the system with grey water to clean the macerator and a lot of the pipes going to the tote and now we want to disconnect everything clean it up I usually sanitize things before I put them away and get ready to go empty our tote at the dump station across town before we move on to emptying the tote I want to make sure that I mentioned two things that I almost forgot when you're using the mass Raider you want to make sure that those valves are open you don't want to create a vacuum system by pumping with the macerator out of your waste water pipes from your RV so you want to make sure that those valves are open when you're pumping and you also want to make sure that there's a way for the air to get out of your tote so that you don't build pressure on that side so you don't want to create a vacuum from where it's pumping from and you don't want to build pressure where you're pumping too so make sure that you have those proper valves open to do that now emptying the tote really is pretty simple we take some extra hose because we're gonna leave the tote in the back of our truck and we're going to make these connections I actually make the connection to the dump station and then I bring the pipes over to the back the truck because ours does not have a valve on our tote there are some totes that have that and I can always add a valve to this tote but as long as I make sure that my pipes are elevated my hoses are elevated and I make the connection and then I lower them that's what's gonna release everything that's in there to flow into the dump station and empty out our tote once it seems like it's empty I'm gonna lift up on the one side of the tote to make sure everything flows out and then I'm going to hose it out at this point we're pretty much done everything's empty and everything's put away at the RV I'm just gonna sanitize the stuff that I have here to make it as clean as I can for next time that I go to use it well you can see why doing it this way might be a little bit too risky for some people they may not like the thought of doing it this way but for us it's worked out great whether we're at families houses for an extended period of time and we don't have a way to empty our tanks there or if we're out boondocking and we don't want to lose our spot they're really a lot of circumstances where this technique might come in handy so if you liked this video please hit that subscribe button give us a thumbs up and we will see you in the next one [Music]

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Length: 8min 2sec (482 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2018