I personally have not ever used a dump station before
so what we were seeing here
at this particular KOA and well it's we had water and electric and we
did not have a sewer so we need to dump before we go our family man so anyway we
probably don't really try hard enough but you were here for two days and we
filled up the grey immediately almost immediately so we definitely need to
dump before we head out and then I personally have not ever used it on
station before you know Ben usually kind of does all that before we head out I
wanted to do it today just to be able to say that I've done it kind of just know
what to do if I ever need to do it on my own for any reason so smoothly get up to
the dump station here and have our turn I'm actually gonna do the dump thing for
the first time today ever just because I've never done it and I want to be able
to say that I've done it and also know what I'm doing
if I ever him in a situation where I need to do it for whatever reason
if Ben is not around so stay tuned and we'll show you my first time dumping but
also walk you through some tips on how to use a dump station
so I'm gonna put on gloves cuz this is empty business
sticky compartment alright so first thing I'm going to do pull out
the stinky slinky hose here and our rig has this thing at the bottom so I'm
gonna run this up through the bottom and make sure that this is connected good
and tight here before that we do anything else
be sure we got a good tight
connection there okay
next
I'm gonna pull this out
we're pretty close here
you want to put this on
now we have this clear elbow that way you can kind of see what's
coming out but also some of these you can twist like this twist
twist it in here and it gives me a little bit better seal but see somebody
else put these rocks here so I'm gonna put these rocks here to to help because
sometimes when this comes out there's a lot of force that it comes out with okay
so first thing I'm going to do we're so scary I'm gonna pull the black
icky icky black so let's pull this
but actually this clear elbow is nice
because you can see what's coming out and make sure that everything comes out first
so I can watch and make sure that everything that's supposed to come out
coming out and then the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pull the grey
after I've made sure that the black is fairly empty you can hear it kind of
right now as it's draining and then I'm gonna pull the grey next to kind of
flush that out so now that I can see that there's nothing else in this clear
elbow which is that's like having a clear elbows nice now I'm going to pull
my grey
our gray was super super full and I can see it's flushing out all that achiness
that was black and I can see the water starting to change color now it's you
more of a gray alright we're about done here a little bit more coming out now
this is super important make sure you close your tanks rookie mistake that
people make super gross if you don't so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna close
my black first make sure that that's closed I can still hear there's a little
bit coming out in the gray gonna get this a little bit of help here
make sure all this is coming out so now I'm gonna close up my gray so now those
are closed now I'm gonna pull this off and I'm gonna bring it down through here
and then I'm still gonna leave it connected we're still coming here
But
straighten it out a little bit now I'm gonna come over here and all dump
stations have a water spigot it's maybe turn on the water here or make big boats
just we're just gonna rinse out the hose
nobody want stinky slinky in their basements
rinse this out rinsy-rinse alright that's probably a good short rinse
okay now we gonna compact this up a little bit
and I like things nice and organized
and then if you're in the campground like
are today see this is greater than nice whoops
doughnut okay if you're in a campground like we are today and you got a nice
line behind you like we have right now I try to do this as quickly as possible so
I'm gonna put this back in here one important thing this little cap here put
this cap back on this is kind of like your oops
cap something pulls loose here in these valves soap you could wash hands here
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just go ahead and pull my gloves off here and I'm
just gonna go inside and wash there just because we've got a line behind us and I
don't want to be an inconsiderate campus basically the way I do it is I pull and
go up handoff with this but I believe my hand in here
to grab this so I'm not touching this orange part where I touched anything and
hold it like this and I'm gonna put these in a separate compartment because
I don't want to put these in with the sewer hose so these goes into a separate
compartment here where we keep extra parts and things like that all right one
last step so we've dumped but because we're getting ready to go down the road
and especially because in our particular situation tonight we're going to be
boondocking but really this goes regardless because when you park you
keep your black tank closed even if you have full hookups which we'll go over
that in a future video but we need to put some chemicals into the black tank
so the way to do that is I'm gonna grab my treatment from down here this is the
TST max from camco these are available on Amazon and we'll put the link below
for these are on Amazon so I'm gonna grab one of these powder packets and again and
put those down the toilet ignore the messy toilet right now but you want to
have some water in your black tank because you don't want to just stick
this into a dry tank we just dumped it and you really want some liquid in your
tank to help break down the toilet paper and any other waste because this is
gonna help break all that stuff down so I'm actually gonna fill the bowl right
now with some water which is what I'm doing with this foot pedal and then I'm
gonna put this in and then I'm gonna drop all of that into the black tank
I'm gonna add just a little bit more water in there so that we've got some
good water in there where we're going down the road now another tip that some
people do to use to help keep that Black tank clean if you're going down the road
is to put some ice in there and that ice can just kind of help agitate any liquid
that's in there scrape anything off the walls if there's anything in there I'm
not gonna do that today cuz we haven't had any issues with odor but that is
something that you can do on so that you've dumped your black tank before
that you go on the road they can help keep that black tank clean so I'm gonna
wash a second time now after touching the chemicals so we can get moving