Crapping In The Woods

[LDS]

Anyone here ever read the book "How To Crap In the Woods"? Yes, it is a real book. Pretty good one too. Filled with useful crap, no BS.

I just got my luggable loo seat and got to wondering if anyone else had read this great literary work. Seems like some of the most useful modern outdoor books are written by women.

[dixieangler]

Nope. Might be down at the bookstore here. Don't recall seeing it right now. Have to go to the Nature and the Sports sections to see if its there. Yes there are primitive skills, survival, etc. in the Sports section. I found out I was missing a lot of other books by just going in the Nature section. lol

I am sure there is probably other good stuff in the book and maybe its just the title, but I don't really need to know how to defecate in the woods. Been doing that since I was out of diapers. Nobody had to tell me how but maybe some folks do. Get some grape vine leaves or other wide non-toxic leaves like Maple, etc. or even bundles of grass (just make sure you shake all the bugs, spurs, burrs, ect. out and don't use sawgrass), dig a hole next to a tree with a stick, then cover when done.

The Romans used a sponge on a stick and running water in the public latrines. I read somewhere that before paper here in the US, folks used old corn cobs for wiping their backside in the outhouse. Ouch. Then came paper and the Sears catalog. lol Eventually the Englishmen John Harrington invented, Joseph Bramah patented the water closet, and then Thomas P. and George Crapper gave us the Crapper or updated version of what is known as the toilet but patent for the siphonic flush was Albert Giblin.

I can recall visiting the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, NC open to the public. There was an antique water closet rather than a toilet there in the old mansion in a small room by itself. It was a tall and thin upright unit built into the wall. It had a water hole for washing the backside and a hole in the bottom. It also had a chain at the top with the sign "DO NOT PULL". Every little kid that came along pulled it anyway. The parents were useless as parents. The water closet was disconnected and didn't work anyway but it was an antique they were trying to preserve. Maybe they should have put a cage around it. lol The old mansion also had an indoor swimming pool. Modern conveniences back then I'm sure.

[LDS]

The book is a hoot! Everyone should read it.

Has some unique tips right down to making sure you are downhill from camp, insuring that nothing rolls downhill and into the campfire, choosing the proper view and other necessities.

[coon4492]

That books a classic I've read it a couple times it's a good read.

[Running-Free]

I heard about it, and heard good things about it...but haven't read it yet...

Think i'll order it Just for the sake of laughs... and maybe i'll get some usefull info that i can print up and serve as a 'How to' for those little punks in my scout troop... Bet they've never crapt in the woods

Come to think of it, I'm not realy big on it either... I do it, but seldomly enjoy it as the releaving peacefull ritual that it can be on a normal crapper. Maybe even i will learn some usefull stuf that will make it an agreable experience, even in the woods...

[Running-Free]

Just ordered it!

Allong with:
-The Tracker
-The art and sciense of tracking
-How to build and furnish a logcabin in the woods

I already have the Fieldguide to Wilderness Survival.
So i guess i better buy myself a good bottle of scotch to go allong with the many hours of reading i have ahead of me...

greetzz

[LDS]

Here is the source for a Roy Underhill vidio. He is a woodworking teacher from the University of North Carolina, here in the U.S.

This might be an odd source but the man is an expert in historic woodworking and construction. I saw his log cabin vidio many years ago and have intended to buy it and never have. It has complete instruction for a trappers' cabin from start to finish, including making the shingles for the roof.

and it is very simple, just like the origionals. A cabin finished out in about a day with two people working.

http://www.internetwoodworking.com/w5/wwsfaq2.html

[Running-Free]

Thanx LSD!

i love authentic building methods... Specialy the ones that are so effective that you go: "how can anyone not think oft that or lose a skill like that"

I'll look into it...

P