Subject: plans for outhouse

From: [email-masked] (Gene Herzberg)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:54:20 -0400

We have an unserviced cabin with an old outhouse that needs to be
replaced. I am looking for outhouse plans. Any help would be appreciated.
Please reply by email as well as posting as I don¹t often read the news.

Thanks

Gene

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From: Claude Chmielewski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:44:50 -0600

> Please reply by email as well as posting as I don¹t often read the news.
Why don't you just copy the old one. This is basic carpentry not rocket
science. Besides if you had plans you would have to adjust the size to
fit your location any way.
Good Luck, Claude

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From: [email-masked] (John Paquay)
Date: 1 Apr 1997 15:06:32 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says...
>Please reply by email as well as posting as I don¹t often read the news.

I can't believe I'm reduced to this.

How about hooking up with the 'doghouse' thread?  I think
an outhouse is basically a tall dog house with a hole in
the floor.

Oh, yeah, you'll need a few sharpened sticks for your outhouse,
too.

Let's see, now... for the hole, you'll need a shovel.  Root around
until you find some scrap iron, or better yet bronze.   Then build
a really big fire and smelt your scrap into a flat pig.  Find a big
rock and pound the pig into a flat blade.  Voila!  Half of a shovel.
When you finish this step, get back to me and we'll work on the
handle...

-- 
John Paquay
Dept. of Physics, Purdue University
[email-masked],  [email-masked]
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~jep/cshop.html
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From: Brock Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 10:14:10 -0800

I've got a question for John Paquay who wrote:

...  Root around until you find some scrap iron, or better yet bronze.  
Then build a really big fire and smelt your scrap into a flat pig ...  

Where do you find a flat pig, and how do you hold it still long enough
to smelt the scrap into him????

-bg

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From: [email-masked] (John Paquay)
Date: 1 Apr 1997 17:13:45 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says...
>to smelt the scrap into him????

I smack him over the head with a shovel.  How do you do it?

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From: Brock Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 12:17:06 -0800

John Paquay wrote:
 
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> I smack him over the head with a shovel.  How do you do it?

Well, of course, I use the same method, but the whole point here was to
build the shovel in the first place.  Hard to hit him on the head when
you haven't built the shovel yet, and don't start with the pinning his
tail down with a sharpened stick stuff 'cause you know it won't work,
flat pig tails do not have enough tensile strength...

-bg

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Tripp)
Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:52:51 GMT

>I smack him over the head with a shovel.  How do you do it?

Must be wonna them city boys, if'n ya never smelt pig scrap..

Mike

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From: Mike DiGiuro <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 16:56:48 -0500

> Must be wonna them city boys, if'n ya never smelt pig scrap..

Enough of all this Tom foolery.  This is serious stuff.  Here in
Kentucky, whenever possible we build our outhouses two stories.  The
University of Kentucky folks can use the up stairs, and the University
of Louisville folks the down stairs.

Also, you might as well be sociable and build a two holer.

Mike

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From: [email-masked] (David Jensen)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:37:33 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] says...
>Please reply by email as well as posting as I don¹t often read the news.

<Assume_serious_post>

I hate to say this, but some areas have outlawed these lovely old
edifices, or at least forbidden the construction of new ones. I am not
at all familiar with Canadian rules, but I suspect that you will have to
check with the local authorities before building.

</Assume_serious_post>

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From: [email-masked] (Foxeye)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 03:25:22 GMT

iT SHOULDN'T BE ANY HARDER TO MAKE A SAY 4 X 6 OR EVEN 4 X 4 OR
WHATEVER SIZED BUILDING, WITH AN ENCLOSURE OVER THE *DUMPING* PIT,
WITH CUTOUTS OR STOREBOUGHT  MOUNTED SEATS WITH COVERS. jUST SIMPLE
BASIC CONSTRUCTION.    Sorry about the caps, I am not yelling, only
looking at the keys to type,didn't knotice caps lock was on,  and am
too lazy to go back and change it.  accept my appology...its been a
long 18 hr day.

>check with the local authorities before building.

Foxeye

The opinions expressed by me are mine and mine alone.  NAR 70031 TRA Someday
Take the XX out of mindspring for correct email address

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From: [email-masked] (tom unger)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 05:59:55 GMT

></Assume_serious_post>

Or not.  It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

--
Tom

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too much is just enough
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From: Dave Druckerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 22:38:04 -0700

> >David Jensen wrote:

> >>Please reply by email as well as posting as I don1t often read the news.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Gene
> 
> ><Assume_serious_post>
> 

I think this is one construction project where I would ask for
permission, IMHO.  Just imagine if its been in use for a few years and
then the local authorities are in a nasty mood when they discover it. 
So, they just require you to remove the building and the pit!  No
thanks.  

Dave Druckerman