13 Step Guide To Installing Your Very Own Outhouse

An outhouse is a small, large percentage of the time wooden, structure built separately from any building with the purpose of enclosing around a toilet. It is a dry, in other words non flushing, toilet.

The primary purpose of any outhouse is to protect its user from the elements. It also provides human comfort and privacy during all those number 1 and 2 moments. A secondary aim of an outhouse is to keep rainwater from flooding the toilet hole, in which case the untreated waste would flood over and into the soil before proper decomposition.

Outhouses are usually made of plywood or lumber so they are lightweight, making them easier to move when the hole is full. Outhouses have been used in developed countries until well into the late 1900's. In the present day, they can still be found in rural areas as well as in the cities of currently developing countries.

How to install your everyday outhouse:

Step 1: Dig a hole. The measurements are not always precise, however 2 feet by 4 feet or close to, are acceptable dimensions. ​​S

Step 2: Have your outhouse hauled to the appropriate location with your truck and trailer.

Step 3: Unstrap your outhouse.

Step 4: Grab your Xtra large jack (affectionately known as jackal).

Step 5: Grab your tractor.

Step 6: Back up your outhouse to the hole, ensuring your sliding pipes and shimmying plywood are appropriately placed in the trailer and underneath your outhouse.

Step 7: With your tractor on one end, your jack(al) on the other, begin slowly and delicately shimmying your outhouse to the forward of the trailer toward the ground.

Step 8: Eventually do away with the jackal and tractor, leaving it up to the old men-folk to push.

Step 9: When the outhouse has been fully place on the ground, wedge a couple 2 by 4's underneath. Careful not to let the heat get away on you.

Step 10: Using your tractor as the catcher, and the jackal for leverage, gracefully hoist your outhouse onto your planks held up by the tractor.

Step 11: Hold steady now.

Step 12: Slowly lower your outhouse down to the ground with your tractor.

Step 13: Using another 2 by 4, wedge around the edges to properly situate your outhouse directly over the aforementioned hole.

There you have it, folks! Your very own outhouse, situated perfectly in the location of your choice.

"The only thing stopping us is fear and common sense"

-Doug Z, proud farmer and owner of "the jackal"

Bailey Sue