Let's talk sewer hose

A tiny little flower no bigger than my fingernail

Today I think I will talk about my sewer hose, not the entire hose, that's too big of a subject, just the end that goes into the hole in the ground.

As those of you who have a sewer hose know there's different ways your required to put it into the drain in the ground. Most RV parks require you to have a screw in fitting on the end of your sewer hose so that your attachment to their sewer line will be a solid one with no leaks. So you have to have a connector with various size of male screw ends on it to fit into the different sizes of female threads you will find at different RV parks.

Other times such as at state parks, truck stops, rest areas and other such places there are no threaded fittings there's just a hole that you stick the hose in, And hope it stays in while you're dumping.

Now I don't know about you but I like to get the whole dumping procedure over with as quickly, as easily and as cleanly as possible. Sometimes it's because there's a line of other people waiting for me to finish, or I just don't like it there and had rather be someplace else.

This caused me to start experimenting with various ways to get my sewer hose connected to the hole in the ground as quickly as possible. Now this isn't a problem when you're staying at an RV park, you just screw the connector into the ground and forget about it until you leave. It's these other random places that cause problems. And it's usually because of the various sizes of pipe that I'm trying to get my hose to fit into that causes the problems.

Since I've settled on using Rhino hoses and accessories I just needed to come up with ways to be able to connect my rhino hose to anything with a minimum amount of hassle, and these pictures will show what I've come up with.

                              theboondork

I made this a couple of years ago and it works great about 80% of the time. But sometimes it's too big to fit in some of the places that I have to dump. When that happens I take it off, which is really easy, and lay the hose on top of the hole and put a couple of rocks on it to keep it from moving.

This is my new idea. It's small enough to go anywhere and it was cheap and easy to make out of a 2 inch PVC coupling. I happen to have a spare rhino hose fitting to use for my experiment.

As you can see my first experiment used a 3 inch PVC pipe. Unfortunately some of the drain lines I have to connect to are also 3 inch so this thing won't go inside of them. My biggest concern is that the 2 inch coupling won't be big enough and may have clogging problems. I'll use it the first chance I get and see how it goes. Remember the whole idea here is to be able to put this in the drainpipe without threading it into anything, or having it come flying out when you pull the dump valve. Don't you hate it when that happens?