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We have had numerous occasions to use our macerator and I have a dedicated old length of garden hose. I have the female end so I can connect to the coach, but I cut off the male end so I never can accidently use it for anything but with the macerator.

I just insert the discharge end into the sewer opening and then I weight it down with something prior to turning on the macerator. it will discharge with enough force to have the end of the hose jump around if I do not secure it. It isn’t the most elegant way to empty the tank but it gets the job done when the standard dump is not an option.

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Here ya go Bonz…

[Dick]

I saw that too, Tom, but it’s a complete system. Overkill, really.

I am trying to avoid Jon’s option, though I know it is one. I did find this.

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Karl: What is your objection to Jon’s solution?

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It was only 20 some bucks Karl, I thought it was just the hose. I know I’ve seen those somewhere before.

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Karl,

That is the solution to a problem you don’t have. If you have a sewer connection your standard way of draining the tank will work.

If you have to use the macerator you are pumping waste into someplace without a conventional connection such as a sewer cleanout on the side of a building or a septic tank cover opening or a sanitary sewer opening with the cast iron lid flipped out of the way.

Or through a bridge grating in Chicago……………

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Dick, I just don’t like the idea of weighting down a hose under pressure.

$118, Tom. And more storage space.

The advantage to using it with a standard sewer connection, Jon, is that you can go a longer distance and even uphill. Right now I have an adapter ordered because I chose to pull into the site so I can look at the water here in Trenton, outside of Bar Harbor, Maine. Because of that, the sewer connection is on the passenger side. Yes, I do have a regular outlet on that side, but it’s a Thetford connection and I have a Valterra hose because I changed out the outlet in the main bay. I don’t yet have a hose I can use with the macerator, or the connector, so the hose for the Valterra connection is run under the bus. Not only is it going to be hard to empty without leaks, it is a tripping hazard now.

I have another hose that I use to wash the bus. If used for the macerator, would you use it for that purpose again? Remember, I have a Liberty.

😉

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I guess I would use the macerator hose for washing the bus. I see no reason not to do that unless you are suggesting that you intend to re-purpose the contents of the holding tank.

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Haha! No, but maybe for washing someone else’s!

[Dan]

You can get the hose and sewer adapter for 54.99. Good grief man, you have a Liberty, that is chicken feed..

Hose

[Glenn]

little one pricey but is expandable

http://www.campingworld.com/shopping/item/sani-con-21-hose/47726

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Now I am afraid to even show my ratty looking garden hose macerator discharge sewer hose. You folks with all the fancy store bought stuff just to get sewage into a sanitary sewer manhole (under the cast iron cover) are going to make me feel bad.

[glen]

Thanks, guys. After looking at that one that Tom linked to I’ll bet I could make it.

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So my question for Karl is how far does the macerator shoot stuff out on the side of the road (only the legal stuff of course 😉 )?

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After an acquaintance covered his brand new Grand Cherokee with the holding tank contents while using his macerator to drain the tank I think the answer to how far it will squirt out is that it doesn’t squirt out far enough when traveling at highway speeds.