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Thunder Box

Postby ULWalkingPhil » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 4:14 pm

Out hiking today, testing out my new Aarn bodypack, when I came upon this toilet, got me thinking, surely there can't be any out there worst than this. So I put a call out there, what's the worst Dunny you have seen?
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby Graham51 » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 4:37 pm

Yhat's a nice dunny - rustic and fitting a bit with the environment. I think I prefer it to the one at Bert Nichols Hut (Windy Ridge) on the Overland Track. Seems like a bit of overkill to me. But then the whole hut is.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby Size 11 » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 5:26 pm

Phillipsart wrote:Out hiking today, testing out my new Aarn bodypack, when I came upon this toilet, got me thinking, surely there can't be any out there worst than this. So I put a call out there, what's the worst Dunny you have seen?

Looks pretty heavily fortified.
The builder of this one must not have had much privacy.
It looks like someone's left the light on. Hope it's solar. :D
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby weetbix456 » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 7:34 pm

Not the worst..just funny :lol:
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby Graham51 » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 8:48 pm

Of course we have the flying saucers in the Western Arthurs. Nice surroundings but rarely with a view as they are nornally tucked up in thick bushes. I'd like to see someone using it while it was being moved.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby stepbystep » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 9:06 pm

I found this one the other day on the slopes of Brown Mtn(Ellendale) :shock:
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby Tony » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 9:19 pm

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Th ultmate in privacy.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby taswegian » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 10:20 pm

well these are classic
Someone had too many baked beans on Brown Mt. :roll:

Pardon my ignorance but is that actually how one uses them in the Western Arthurs?

Like Size11 - surely that things still not connected to the power grid? Lights on!!

Those reserve dunnies are elaborate. I remember the impressions of my first sighting of the Watervalley dunny. Thought it was a new hut. The smell wasn't very inviting though.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby pazzar » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 11:04 pm

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This is how they do it in Ukraine.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby photohiker » Sun 24 Jul, 2011 11:37 pm

We have a foldable, portable one for car camping - the whole thing folds flat:

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It's actually called 'Jimmys ThunderBox' !

Don't have any action pics :) but found this one on 4wdaction:

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Re: Thunder Box

Postby Graham51 » Mon 25 Jul, 2011 8:27 pm

Pardon my ignorance but is that actually how one uses them in the Western Arthurs?

That's pretty much it - except with the lid off and the pants down.

(Haven't worked out how to quote part of someone else's post, sorry.)
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby taswegian » Mon 25 Jul, 2011 8:52 pm

I see - interesting on a frosty day!
except with the lid off and the pants down.

Yeah gathered the nickers come off :D

Graham51 I just select what I want to quote then use the 'Quote' tab above here (assuming you are in full editor) and then place your selected text inside the [quote] [quote]
I've added some spaces and deleted the / else it would show a blank quote.
Or just paste your 'quote', select it and then hit the Quote tab above. Same result.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby norts » Mon 25 Jul, 2011 9:00 pm

I did meet someone on the WA's who used the standing area as a seat. I could not do that. Rather squat up there in the wind and rain.

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Re: Thunder Box

Postby stepbystep » Tue 26 Jul, 2011 9:58 am

Stumbled upon this beauty near the Styx River a few years back.
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Re: Thunder Box

Postby north-north-west » Wed 27 Jul, 2011 7:04 pm

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Re: Thunder Box

Postby frank_in_oz » Sun 31 Jul, 2011 5:59 pm

A couple from a while ago on the South Coast Track

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