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What's keeping you from ditching the civilized world and living in the woods? (programming.dev)
submitted 21 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

not having to shit in a hole in the ground

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  • [–] 18 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

    Shitting in a hole is not the part that concerns me, it's dealing with the hole once it's full.

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  • [–] 19 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Cover the hole with dirt and dig a new hole.

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Which is a giant pain in the ass, especially if you've built a nice heated structure over the hole so that you don't get hypothermia while pooping in the winter.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago

    In that case, large container that can be tipped into the big hole periodically. You can always dig the new hole in stages rather than all at once too.

    Also if manual labour is off putting to you, the whole idea is probably not something you are suited to.

    Not sure how I could legally do it here but the idea I like is going half way into the wilderness. Buy some woodland but have towns nearby you could pop into for some supplies occasionally and still keep a part time job. Difficult part is legally living in your own woodland.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago

    I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has to shit in the woods some time: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/610432/how-to-shit-in-the-woods-4th-edition-by-kathleen-meyer/9781984857132

    I was working in sanitation and told my co-worker about my upcoming back country trip. He recommended this book. I put it on my e-reader and read it during the course of my adventure. I changed how I approach such things afterwards.

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    As long as your soil will percolate, a septic system isn't difficult to build. You just dig a trench leading to a hole, fill the hole with plastic buckets or 55-gallon plastic drums cut up and arranged correctly, then run a correctly sloped PVC pipe to the septic tank you just built. From there, you connect to your fixtures to the drain pipe as needed.

    The difficult part is getting the tools and equipment to do all that out to your location. The bigger the tools you use, the faster and easier the work will be, the it will also be more challenging to get it in and out. Basically, a shovel is a lot easier to carry than a backhoe, but a lot less pleasant to dig with. Same deal with a reciprocating saw, battery, charger, and solar setup, versus a hacksaw.

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