Dumping tanks uphill

[Townesw]

Here’s a trick to dump your tanks when the sewer hookup is uphill from your bumper. 

Here I used (2) 1”x2”x8 ft from an Ace Hardware store on the Keweenaw Peninsula 

Houghton MI

 

Door County WI

 

This time I picked up (2) pieces of 1/2”x10 ft EMT conduit from HD in Ellsworth ME. I like the conduit better than the 1x2 wood. The sewer hose supports slide better on the conduit and when I get home I’ll cut each conduit in half and turn a steel rod to just fit inside the conduit to make a splice for the halves. I thought I could stick the whole 10ft length into the Oliver aluminum rectangle frame rail but bolts through the rail prevent my doing this.

 

Bill

Edited 11 hours ago by Townesw

[Steph and Dud B]

Clever!

[mossemi]

Excellent idea!

Mossey

[Zodd]

It is so nice when campgrounds are this well thought out 😉

[HDRider]

1 hour ago, Zodd said:

It is so nice when campgrounds are this well thought out 😉

The best I had was a state park in Vermont.  On top of being very poorly maintained the one way road was counterclockwise and the angle of the back-in spots were setup for the road to run clockwise.  And, it had lots of trees to navigate as you backed in.  Thanks to one of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys for an assist. 

[Galway Girl]

16 minutes ago, HDRider said:

one way road was counterclockwise

As is the south loop of Kalaloch CG in Olympic National Park ...where some bright summer crew member sent to repaint arrows, made a mistake.
People have just had to live with the result for multiple years as the same intern also changed the maps to match the mistaken arrows.  (Heard all that from a Ranger.)

 

[jd1923]

We don’t setup a waste line at campsites. We're never in one place for more than 5 nights and I don't deal with those fancy waste ladders which I associate with Class A RVers, who stay long with full hookups! 🤣

Instead we dump on arrival (often coming from boondocking) and on departure.

When dumping, you must have the Oliver up in the front AND on the curbside. I use the LevelMate at the dump station to bring the front up a good +2" over level.

Some may not know, the gray tank is on the curbside, with its outlet drain facing the streetside. If your Oliver is any lower on the curbside, your gray tank can be quite full after you thought you dumped tanks! I use an 8" Anderson block to lift the curbside jack so that it is at least +1" above level. Tanks are then fully emptied.

This picture was taken at a dump station in Cedar City UT. I had to back in, so there was no other approach. You can see all what I had to do to lift the front! What's not pictured is the curbside jack is also lifted. Isn't RV life wonderful?! 😎

Edited 41 minutes ago by jd1923