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wbillar
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I bought a 5 gal. blue container which I use to "bleed" off gray water and dump so as to make the gray water last loner. We can go for a long time with the black water tank but gray water fills quickly, even if we use local bathrooms for showers which can really fill up the gray water tank quickly.
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Ratdog
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The bigger sized blue totes have an accessory attachment that loops over the ball on your TV hitch so you can tow it to the dump station.
-- Steve
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Larry
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The other thing about the larger
totes that you should know is that they may not fit under your pod; I have axle
risers on my 171 and my 16 gal. tote does not fit under my pod, so I had to get a short
sewer hose because a regular length sewer hose would not effectively drain the
pod’s tanks. My tote has a sewer hose connection
on the side and one on the top; maybe the one on the side might work better for
draining the pod tanks into the tote but you might get some backup. Don’t know
if others who have a tote have experienced what I’m talking about. Regardless a short sewer hose
from the pod to the tote worked much better for me than the standard length
sewer hose. My tote also hooks on to the back of my tow vehicle and dumping it
at the dump station is no problem at all. The one minute shower you
guys are talking about reminds me of Vietnam where we had outdoor showers, cold
water only, and you pull a lever to get wet, soap up and then pull the lever
again to rinse off. Ahhhh...the bad old days. |
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Kenn
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Our tote works well with little to no backflow. We also have a 35 gallon tote. Ours also have an indicator that prevents you from overfilling it.
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Larry
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Kenn, your tote does look a
little lower than mine and maybe you do not have this issue, but my tote it
seems has larger wheels on it and it is off the ground almost as high as my
R-Pod; the pod's drainage pipe is about even with the top of my tote, which when I attach the sewer hose to the top of the tote to drain the
pods tanks, the hose attachment on top of the tote is about as high as the pod's drainage pipe; I remedy this by using
a very short sewer hose. But also I can use the sewer hose attachment on the
side of the tote which is lower, and allows gravity to help drain the tanks. My tote also has and indicator to show how full the tote is and as I said eariler it can be hooked to the hitch on my TV and towed to the dump station.
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