Am sčking advice and/or recommendations on what type of small lightweight trolly or cart to buy for the purpose of moving the toilet cassette from van to dump points as i have a back injury and am unable to carry the thing any great distances. TIA
Bunnings sell a folding trolley for just less than $40. Lightweight aluminium and folds flat for travel, put your foot on the base plate to flip it down and lift up the two arms. Note that Bunnings have several of various capacities - and prices! Ours is rated at 35kg.
Also, from time to time Aldi have the same ones slightly cheaper, but you will probably have to wait for them to come on sale again.
I use ours when I have to carry the C200 cassette any distance. And yes, I know that the C200 cassettes have little wheels and a pull along handle, but the wheels fall off at every little bump!
I also empty when still light and sometimes that could be days between emptying as I am solo. If there is no dump point where I am I put in back of car and drive to where one is, usually not that far away but that is not all that often.
I have a trolley like shown above but got mine of evilbay but it is just there and not used often and only has been used for the Gennie.
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I also empty when still light and sometimes that could be days between emptying as I am solo. If there is no dump point where I am I put in back of car and drive to where one is, usually not that far away but that is not all that often.
I have a trolley like shown above but got mine of evilbay but it is just there and not used often and only has been used for the Gennie.
Not the gennie. Yuk Dougwe.
Are you one of those blokes who take their gennie away from the caravan door so can not hear it or smell it.
Good on you, your a top bloke.
-- Edited by Radar on Thursday 11th of August 2022 07:00:15 AM
My most enjoyable cassette emptying experience was when we hired a motor home & were staying in a popular CP in Darwin. The cassette had a collapsible handle & wheels. I proudly walked thru to the distant dump point when people were out enjoying happy hour. Everyone avoided me, I felt like Jesus's parting the waters.
I have a folding trolley. It is good, but one downside is that the hard wheels can't easily move over loose stone. The last park I was at, I put it in the car, even though the dump point was nearby, because it wouldn't wheel over the stones.
Emptying it more frequently is good advice, you'll have to lift it out of its little hidey-hole, and if you need to use the car you need to lift it higher than just getting it onto the trolley.
I too use the car & never let the cassette get too full. Most dump points have an adjacent car park.
I have a small loo kit in a zip top plastic bag that sits at the rear of the Patrol adjacent to where I carry the cassette ...
- box of gloves
- old towel to put the tank on & to cover it to avoid splashes (never had any though) & it protects the cassette from any risk of sliding
- roll of kitchen paper to clean outside of cassette & hands
- small bottle of hand sanitiser
- bottle of loo chemical with measuring cup
- Spare plastic rubbish bags in case there is not a convenient bin at dump point
I have no need for a trolley but if I have to carry the cassette any distance, mine doesn't have wheels, I use the old towel from my kit as a wrap around to avoid any splash or leak.
we used to carry a pull apart gopher [gogo brand] for my partner ................so i used it for the loo run to empty it ........super easy and didnt need to carry it at all ......
I either empty it on the way out of a park provided there is adequate parking. Otherwise I put it on the tailgate of the car. It also has a handle & wheels but for my height, I need longer handles! Tim, that trolley looks good.
While we were locked up at Cunnamulla in late April, early May with Covid, emptying the canister was my "allowable outing" every three days.
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I purchased an el-cheapo sack trolley from Aldi, only good for up to about 19 kilograms carrying weight, which is sufficient for the toilet cassette.
I found that even with the handle extended, it was a bit short for me, (and I am not a tall man, and my back is not as young as it once was), so I extended the handle.
It is strapped to the rear on my motorhome, when not in use
I bought a cheap sack trolly from Supacrap and I then bought some wheels that fit but with solid tyres.
It worked great to wheel the potty out into the scrub but better still it was absolutely terrific to wheel and position the generator at a distance that was the same as the longest power lead I had.
I did have some good equipment for caravanning, the sack trolley was one great bit of gear and my generator was the quietest I have ever heard.
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I can think of one person on this forum that would need a trolley rated at 90kg to tow away his toilet cassette. I reckon Doug could name that person in one guess.
Nah SC, I didnt put it near Dougwe, it would be unfair if I did because he was the one who told me about using the long lead.
It works a lot better than a muffler
I don't remember telling you that Ivan but you must have been up at 2am running yours like I do as everyone is asleep and won't hear them. Good to see there is another very thoughtful generator operator out there.
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In one of the settings where the older man and the younger are both gagging, there is a sign prohibiting fires. I could not see properly but did anyone notice anything about smoking prohibited as well? The younger bloke had a smoke in his mouth in the settings towards the end of the YouTube.
I would not be smoking around a toilet cassette tank. Maybe a possibility of stray gases like methane and hydrogen sulphide, both being flammable.
Not sure if they were in a QLD National Park, but QLD govt website about smoking bans could fit with a definition of a public facility.
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National Parks
Smoking is banned at and within 10 metres of campsites and any public facilities such as picnic tables, toilet blocks, barbecues, visitor information centres, roofed shelters, jetties, boat ramps and landing stages.
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-- Edited by watsea on Thursday 25th of August 2022 10:00:24 AM