Here we go...THREE, TWO, ONE! This is nasty!
it is really stinky honey so you just kind of put your mouth up to the hose and we have the
macerator and in this video, we are going to show you how to dump your tanks without being at a dump
station or at a site with full hookups so this is a video you're definitely going to want to watch
all right so a little-known fact you can actually dump your waste tanks at home yes
you can but to do so there are a couple of things that you need number one you
need one of these this is called a macerator pump and this literally makes sure that you
know what can flow uphill versus downhill we just got this bad boy in because the
last time that we did this we were mooch docking at my sister's and we used this
instead now a little story this monstrosity down here yeah it was horrible it actually came with
our very first RV that we ever purchased we have no clue how old this was and it resulted in what
we like to call poopsie because we don't want any more poopsies we're going to use this now a couple
of things if you want to try this at home number one we're going to dump straight into a toilet if
you do have some sort of a septic well that makes it a little bit easier which we actually do have
that here at the glamper Hideaway but no no no we're going to show you how to do it in a toilet
because everybody has a toilet and if you don't have a toilet well I feel bad for your living
situation if you don't have indoor plumbing but we do so we're going to get started so Ben tell
us what all this is over here this monstrosity I'm going to talk about the hoses here and I'm going
to talk about a really important thing regarding your hose so the big thing is you need to make
sure you've got a big hose okay size does matter when it comes to the hose that you're going to
use for the macerator this is a three-quarter inch hose okay so it's a little bit thicker in
diameter so thicker is better it allows more to flow through better flow rate I have two 25
foot hoses so I can just hook them together that seems to be working well I also have a
really long hundred foot one the macerators will flow through a 100 foot hose even uphill the nice
thing about this one is that this is a brand new motor it's the upgraded one so you're not going to
really have any issues with this thing overheating like the last motor did this one is actually a new
revised motor which is a actually improved we're going to put it to the test but first
gloves you always want to put the gloves on first
all right this comes in a nice little that's the case let's see what's in here
she is a Beauty look at that all right so we've got some wire here this is the
an on and off switch oh it's got a letter rip button glitter rip
the eject button and then you've got this wire that you can hook up to your battery
to set it up the way I want to set it up to where I can just clamp it onto the batteries
which is nearby on this class A we do need to get battery clamps here so these at Home Depot
they're six bucks they've got one left in stock here but this will allow us to just tie it on the
end and then clamp it right to the battery I feel like story of our life with projects
it's never as simple as you thought it was going to be nope
mile 12 Bay one right here actually right here
right here all right there you go or do you want these ones is that clamp no these ones will go
over the whole battery terminal but this one's got it looks like it would be easier things foreign
so took a little trip to the home despots and got some things to
do with the wiring stuff so we've got power so now we have the macerator and
we have power when you push the button don't push the red button unless you want this okay
so the next step is going to be Ben's going to hook this up we're going to run the hose we have
a window in The glamper Hideaway that goes to a bathroom so it's gonna be really easy we've got
the RV here we've got a window there to go straight into the bathroom to dump into the
toilet because we're about to go back on the road and because of our new solar setup we're
going to be pretty much exclusively boondocking for at least the foreseeable next little while
that we're going to be out so we got to have an empty tank before we go this is gonna get
the job done we are now ready to do the fun part and that is to hook up the master inner to the RV
so there are multiple ways to do this two different kind of connections that you may need
to get to actually allow you to fit the macerator in here depending on the angle that your poo pipe
comes out mine comes down straight like this either way when you have a kinked poo pipe King
in that case I bought two a 45 degree and a 90 degree clear connector one thing I did notice
is so you can see here when you try to connect up this 45 degree one from Camco it actually requires
you know filing down a little bit before it'll actually fit on here but this 90 degree one it
connects up without having to shave anything off today we're going to use the 90 degree I'm glad I
did get both to see kind of which angle worked best so you connect up the elbow to the poo
pipe I'm gonna call it the Poo pipe then you connect the macerator up to the Elbow
and then you want to turn the macerator so actually this is nice because then I
can just set it right down here and it's not leaning up against anything
love it when a plan comes together yeah and I didn't even plan on it and so the the hose
is going to connect up to the macerator there's two different options to hook up a hose you want
to hook up the hose to the right hose connector because this is to clean it out but this
particular one is where the Poo will be shooting out it's a blue shooter like as I mentioned before
bigger is better when it comes to these hoses so in this case I hooked both uh 25 foot ones for
a total of 50 feet to our toilet let's connect this bad boy up you want to get it fairly tight
then now what we need to do is go to the other end and make sure the hose is in the
toilet you want to make sure the hose is in the toilet because if you let her fling
it's not going to be a good thing oh I'm a poet I don't know it and one thing is
that we're going to run like a little test by opening the gray first yes and not the
black and making sure that everything's sealed no leaks or anything like that by
gray first I ordered online some extra DC wire here that's the what is it 12 gauge 12 AWG it's a
50 foot roll I've got these little butt connectors that you can solder on just with a heat gun I
don't have that far to go so I just basically ran it right along to my house batteries with some
alligator clips they're the heavy oh they're the heavier duty ones here's the battleborns as well
so I can connect to either or so it's not going to be a problem either way charity is going inside
and she's going to open up the window and we're going to go ahead and feed the hose right through
all right all right so now really this job should be done with two people one inside one outside if
you're not going to be attending the inside I'm thinking we should have like a little clamp to
clamp it to the toilet so nothing falls out I know you need to if it's a one-person job you
know I don't think that you could do this one person you could if you had a clamp to clamp
it to the toilet but you want to make sure you look through the window and that things are going
friend yeah go around the campground you're doing this yeah so you're gonna have a friend somewhere
okay all right we're good so now I've got the button I feel like I'm detonating like a bomb
or something here well kind of am we're gonna go ahead and open up the gray tank first I should
be wearing my gloves right so you always want to wear the gloves before messing with the Poo Stacy
from today's someday schooled me on not wearing gloves we're going to open up the gray tank first
okay we're good no leaks okay let it fill up a little bit here we go
three two one letter rip yeah all right is she working yep so now we're gonna go ahead and close
the gray and then we're gonna open up the black so I must say viewer discretion is advised ready yep
gosh that's disgusting probably stinks pretty bad in there I'm glad I'm not the one in there it's
got the unique camping and Marine enzymes that have been eating up all the poo this is nasty
it is really stinky honey so now that the black is done I'm gonna close that up open the gray
and the thing is you really want to do this as quick as you can because you don't want the motor
to be running dry but you want to do black first then gray a few moments later so now we're done
so what I'm going to do is just shut her down and then I'm going to wait until I can really
hear it ramp up that means that all the water is out is it done yeah it's done that's it
easy peasy lemon squeezy let's go see how Charities experience was
how was your experience it stinks that was very stinky I mean it does stink
so you definitely want to fan on you want to shut the door just so there's not a flow of poo stink
going into the house right literally going to pass out here in a minute but I mean this is
this is doable I wouldn't say that this is the preferable method by any stretch if you're at
a friend's house I would maybe put a fan in the window blow fumes out so it's not getting sucked
into the house I mean I put the hose under the water water anyway I don't know I don't
even there's just some things I don't want to talk about and this is one of them yeah what I'm going
to do is I'm going to hook a hose up to here and then turn it on and then kind of flush out
the hose and everything with clean fresh water as well as clean out the macerator area that'll kind
of just get everything cleaned up even though we did you know run gray water through so even though
that was pretty smelly I know it would have been like literally 10 times worse if we were not using
the drop in pods and the tank cleaners and all of the treatments that we use from our friends over
at unique camping and Marine we have been using their products now in our tanks for over a year
now and they really do help keep the smells away while we're in the RV but they also help keep our
tanks clog free and our take sensors working we used to sometimes get like readings on our tanks
that we knew were not correct until we started using the unique lineup of products and now we
know our sensors are actually reading correctly when it says that we have either a half tank or
a full tank or whatever on our waste tanks so we have partnered with unique for a 15 discount for
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sponsoring this video the first thing you're going to want to do is just take off the connection
from the battery we've got it all cleaned out and then so I'm going to go ahead and just remove this
from here obviously make sure everything's closed then we want to go ahead and just put on the cap
put that back on and then what I like to do is just you know fill because really the biggest
thing people don't know about black tanks is they like a decent amount of water in them so
I close up and then what I do if we're getting ready to go you know after a campground after
I've dumped I'll go ahead and fill it up with water either through my black flush tank here
where I can put water back in the tank or I'll lift up the toilet foot pedal to get
some water down in the tank and then we'll throw in a pod or two of the unique Marine so that way
it's nice and fresh and clean so I'm gonna go ahead and disconnect the hose now you may have
a little bit of residuals what we would call it in the hose so be aware and cognizant of that
what I like to do is just siphon it out so you just kind of put your mouth up to the hose and
no just kidding don't do that um you want to actually blow through the hose to blow
the water out ready no I'm not going to do that either but you want to lift the hose up
and then just kind of roll it up as you walk that's probably the best way to do it keep it
up higher you know right over your head no don't do that either so you don't want to get a gray
water shower but any of the residual I'm just kind of putting into the plants I picked up probably
like 10 or 15 of these Sterilite plastic bins with the clear plastic top I love these 10 or 15
oh yeah about that have you seen my videos on minimalism what they stack so you can see
through them you can stack them they've got a little lip here so you can stack multiple
ones they've got taller ones this is going to fit in a little bin for itself oh and it
fits perfectly look at that you couldn't have gotten a better bin look at this it's like it
it was meant for it so you clip these on and then this can go right up here and we're done
there was one time where we hadn't used that and the kids went to the bathroom and we hit
a gust to win or something and it just sucked the vapors up from the toilet into the RV it's dunk so
bad I will never forget that day okay so in this video we are going to dump our hold clap or a nice
little you know feeding of grapes hate water Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum they're loving life right now all
right I'm totally I'm gonna put a video right up here for you to watch where we actually did
this one time before but we were mooch docking and we ran it into a septic tank that was over
100 feet away so you'll have to take a look at that video there may or may not have been
a poopsie if we don't see you out on the road or on the campground we'll see you in the next video