Bushcraft Outhouse & Survival Shelter - 5 Tips for How to Poop in the Woods (3 Day Campout)

Luke and Nathan here with the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and we're back at our hand-built bushcraft log cabin and we're working on another project we're building an outhouse that's right we're building the Brown Throne the Squatty Potty Palace of Dookie the Port of John we are building an outhouse and in addition to loads of potty jokes we are also going to explain to you how to poop in the woods because we know a lot of you guys wanted to ask okay it's a lot of poo will fit in there well if we dig the hole any deeper Nate could fall in and never get out but I think it's time to go cut some wood I've got a couple aromatic cedar trees that are dead those are really nice because they don't rot very easily so that might be good to use in my outhouse are you tired Nathan I'm tired well it's about five o'clock so I think we should make some dinner what do you think yeah all right we'll get some firewood together and build the fire and we're building out here and keep working on burning down this stump got a little cotton ball with some petroleum jelly on it I'm gonna use that as our fire starter here they got the blast match here just a little ferrous rod with a piece of steel makes some nice big sparks there we go let's find a hot dog stick Nathan I got a big pile of little sticks over here there we go we've got some Nathan's hot dogs for Nathan and me all right there you go buddy got that probably the simplest cheapest campfire food you can make it's really good like your hot dog Nathan's got me in stitches we brought a watermelon along and he named it aunt Melanie after my sister Melanie what do you got there oh got a little kinder egg for dessert oh it is a toy little black cat there look at that oh my goodness oh it's a hazelnut rolled in chocolate in a pool of frosting well Nathan what do you want to do now you wanna just get in bed and watch a movie all right I could agree with that I'm pretty tired take the lantern in there all right shout out to all my UK peeps Digestives what! mmmm chocolate. How'd you get in the ice? And why aren't you frozen? well good morning it's a little cold I think I might have to get a fire starter good morning you ready for some breakfast now the breakfast is over gotta get Nathan set up for online school so I think I'll have to get a little desk and chair set up for him oh our stumps almost burned through I think we might be able to knock it down his school online school is gonna start in a few minutes so I guess I'm gonna start taking measurements for the outhouse can you use it a little big huh when daddy uses it I'll use it just like this and when you need to use it just go put that on there and you can adjust it however you like okay that gonna work all right good stuff well there you go guys it's not a porcelain throne but more of a log cabin yeah all right guys got the toilet done but I think we're gonna break for lunch and when we come back we're gonna put up some walls and get a little bit of a shelter built around this thing all right why don't you pull out the melon and Melanie don't oh she did not survive the fall yeah you want that can't fire watermelon it's pretty hard to beat on a summer day all right I'll give you guys one guess what Nathan wanted for lunch he is a cup of noodle fiend Nathan's got his cup of noodle but I've got a baguette some salami some nice cheeses big marmalade it's gonna be a nice little lunch oh oh I'm tired I think it's gonna work out though what do you got there oh look at that that is so cool he's so pretty well guys we got a good pile of wood here but it's getting late it's almost seven o'clock and we haven't had dinner yet so I'm gonna get the fire going and make this boy some dinner and we're gonna finish this project tomorrow a little bit of Gouda a little bit of bread we're just finishing up dinner and it looks like our outhouse has its first customer here's the toilet paper buddy tell me how it is we want to review what'd you think pretty good it's a good point oh I'll see what I can do about that why don't you get changed and hop into your sleeping bag well the outhouse works very well all right we're just gonna get that back wall up today and we'll be done oh well first I get some breakfast made we got some steel-cut oatmeal with raisins and strawberries here we got Nathan all set up for online school so I'm gonna go try to finish up the back wall of this outhouse well there we go she's all done look at this that is a good-looking outhouse yeah yeah looking good what do you think it is that good outhouse all right go for it all right now that we finish the outhouse I promised you I would teach you how to poop in the woods I'm gonna give you my five best tips for pooping in the woods after living in Japan for several years and using traditional Japanese toilets I learned something Americans don't know squat about squatting when Americans squat they like to go on the balls of their feet with their heels off the ground this really makes it hard to balance an Asian squat they stick their toes out and they put their heels flat on the ground we if you squat with your toes pointing forward it's hard to get down low so you pop up on the balls of your foot if you pigeon toe then you can squat down with your heels flat on the ground it's much more comfortable and you can sit in that position for a much longer time without losing your balance it's a lot easier to maintain your balance squatting down if you're facing slightly downhill sitting down and squatting for an extended period of time is a bit hard on your knees use a small tree then you can go and squat down for a lot longer with good balance when Westerners sit down on the toilet a lot of them pull their pants and underwear all the way down to their ankles which is fine but when you're squatting don't pull them down past your knees if you pull your pants and underwear down past your knees when you squat down there's a good chance you're gonna tinkle dookie in your underwear all right guys let's talk toilet paper if you're gonna poop in the woods use biodegradable toilet paper don't use wet wipes and ideally use the RV friendly septic system friendly toilet paper it decomposes much faster so let me give you an example see this pile of toilet paper that's only one week old and you can see how much it's decomposed over here is a pile of toilet paper that's about two and a half weeks old and over there the stuff you can't even see that's about two months old so if you're a place with a lot of rain and humidity environmentally friendly toilet paper will be gone in a couple months if you're in a desert environment it's gonna sit around for a long time if you're in a place where people hike or camp make sure to bury or dispose of your poo properly you can either do this by pooing into a honey bucket and throwing it away or burying your poo and if you're gonna bury it dig the hole first and dig it as deep as you can poo in the hole then cover it up leaving poo out in the open and not only is it gross and attracts flies and stuff but it also attracts animals so if you're near a campsite you can attract raccoons and rats and all sorts of gross stuff if somebody in your group doesn't want to squat in the woods a good hack is to use a five gallon bucket just line the bucket with a plastic bag then put a pool noodle around the rim to make it soft and to keep the plastic bag in place poo in the bag seal up the bag burn it or throw it away if you don't have a plastic bag you can use a little bit of sand clay or environmentally friendly kitty litter and then once you've done your business you can dig a hole and dump it deep in there one of the worst places I've ever had to poo was on the tundra of Alaska north of the Arctic Circle the gnats and mosquitoes were so thick it looked like a brown haze about six feet above the tundra it was just insane how many bugs there are and as soon as you pulled your pants down they would get all over your bits and just bite the crap out of them and it would itch so bad but if you try to spray bug repellent where the Sun don't shine it burns so badly so what we would do is go and find a little bit of a knoll when there was a breeze and point your butt upwind and then do your business and the breeze would help keep the bugs off your bits well there's three improvements I want to make on this outhouse next trip one I want to put a carp over the top so if it's raining you can do your business without getting dripped on and two I think I might bring an old toilet seat and just nail it to the top of this toilet and if I do that I might convince my wife to come out and join me here and then finally I want to get a little bucket of sawdust to keep by the toilet so we can throw that down there after we do our business it'll help keep the smell down and help keep the flies down which is important I learned after going to the bathroom in an outhouse in Manly Alaska turns out there was thousands and thousands of flies down in the hole and as soon as I started pooing on them they all tried to get out but my bum was in the way and so all the flies tried to climb through me to get out of the out of the outhouse and so I jumped up because it's really gross and then they started flying in my mouth and ears and everything and ever since that experience not having flies in your outhouse has become a higher priority to me so I have to go get that sawdust have you had fun awesome all right we got the campsite broken down and the log cabin buttoned up until the next time we come out here and we do new videos every Saturday morning so don't forget to click subscribe and activate your notifications and if you guys want to see how we built this log cabin I'll put links to that video down below but thanks for watching guys we'll see you next Saturday morning if you like this video don't forget to check out the outdoor boys YouTube channel we have hundreds of videos just like this don't forget to click subscribe so you can see other 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