All you're doing is pumping the grey water from the tank. Solids and scum layer stay behind. The tank will be back to operating level in a few weeks so you've accomplished absolutely nothing. Also a bit deceiving for potential buyers of your property. Pumping the water out could mask other major issues within the system. It's a pay me now or pay me later type of thing. These are the tanks I spend hours cleaning and it ends up costing double or triple what it would cost to have a normal cleaning, not to mention leaving the solids in the tank could potentially lead to drain field failure....
This video is only for people who want to save money themselves if you have money just called the Cesspool guy and don't waste your time making comments
So let me get this straight... By the time I spend money buying a pump and all the pipe I need, plus the time it takes and disposal fee etc... Why not just call the man to come pump it for 2 or 3 hundred bucks? And it be done the right way 😅
I have pumped mine with a trash pump several times. Forget hauling it unless you have to. I just pumped it out to the field on my lot. A lot easier and cheaper.
Would cost you 3 times what it cost to have a tank pumped for that stuff. Those well pumps are a few hundred and those tanks are a couple hundred. Then find a place to dump it legally or illegally.
“There it is, almost 250 pounds of…” Well buddy, that’s a 250 gallon tote, so I think you meant 250 x 8 pounds/gallon equals about 2000 pounds of effluent, and that truck suspension looks great!
This is a terrible idea! And totally misleading the buyer of the property. Unethical? Absolutely. You spent 20k for a reason, that home inspector didn't make a dime of your failed test.
Despite all the neg comments I am grateful you kept this video up, thank you. I am using this video to help me pump a leech field that I have hydro jetted. Just as an aside I got so fed up with the constant trolls and neg comments I hid all my magnetic laser sights for guns videos. Couldn't have been that bad I had a 0.05% return rate and everyone said I was a genius. (At the time)
It's 'too' not 'to'. I have since fixed 4 more septics, 2 last month on my extensive recently purchased property at the main and guest houses both with unique issues. Continue hating peenhelmer.....[Wonder why I have 2000 subs and no videos....mystery isn't it?] Noncegobbler.
USE_LESS, this guy has no clue how a septic system works. The water level is maintained at a specific level by your drain field. When cleaning a tank, you want to get the sludge buildup off the bottom and the scum floating on the top. This video is pointless.
hello! can i use small water pump 2 horse power only? bcos i dont have a big water pump. my septink tank is full of water bcos of flood and heavy rain in phillipines. i dont want to pay 250 dollar for suctioning. cannot afford...
Very informative. Where do you take this stuff? Do you have to have permit to take to waste facility? A 275 gallon tank will be around 2,200 lbs. weight. What is your truck axel rated for? Can you set one of these on a 8x10 utility trailer? This is smart if you do it right. Thanks for sharing.
Allow me to help hear.... NO I would not put that tank FULL of liquid on an 8x10 trailor... Unless you have a MAJOR AXILE set up on it. Also transporting raw sewage requires a special endorsement on your drivers license. Not just any Joe can do it. Except if it's in the holding tank on an RV Or Camper... Especially in a tank on a trailor or in the bed of a truck. The load is in greater danger of release in an accident that way. Also I don't know of any sewage processing center that would let any Joe blow pill up in a truck with a load in a tank and DUMP. That would raise all kinds of red flags. So most likely what he does is 1 Go to his home or another home with sewer lines going to city sewer and pump the tank out into the clean out... OR 2 go to a camping dump station and DUMP there... However getting cought dumping that tank in a camper dumping station would mean Buu Cou TROUBLE!!!!!
@@bmaiceman the country is broke to enforce any laws. Much respect to the author of the video. He can dissolve the sludge and pump is again. Then hose it down until it’s perfect
@@bmaiceman You don't need endorsements on your license to transport sewage... I drive a vacuum truck for the state of California and the only thing I needed was a class cll drivers license because the truck I drive is under 26,000 lb gvw but no special endorsements except filing a liquid waste disposal permit with the local municipality That's why they make slip in tank units for pickups, towable vac tanks, and even have vacuum tanks for boats to do marine tank pump outs while on the water. Human waste is not usually considered hazardous waste.
Obviously you have no idea what a septic system is and what it does all you doing here is just pumping the water out and leaving all the sludge behind instead of helping the drainfield sistem. U r. Hurting it you better get a real septic tank company from now on
I use the neighbors kids sand shovel & bucket to remove mine, then I return it in the night so they don’t know I used it, before that I used to scoop it out with taco shells.
I just used a wet/dry shop vac on my tank after mixing the tank with a mixing blade on my 1/4 horse drill. Works great and was super cost effective. You can pump it into whatever sized container which you have a means to haul. For example, my trailer only handles about 800lbs so Can haul two 55 gal PP barrels per trip. Dumping is free at many locations around the US.
I would do the same thing Ifbi was selling house but I wouldn't to go around telling everybody about it. Inspector puts in however many gallons is supposed to test your drain field
Septic companies in northern wisconsin spray a full truck on a farm field, thats the only way its done around here. The workers then walk through it to pick up stuff like tampons, razors, etc.
Ok, so it looks like there’s mostly guys here. I’m a DIY, too and would like to give this a try. I had a local company come out but they are charging $450 to pump tanks these days and folks in the neighborhood are complaining about it. When I had them come out before, I watched the guy pump out our 1000 gallon septic tank. This was about five years ago. After he pumped all the liquid from the inlet he used our garden hose to break up the sludge. I don’t know if that works. Does anyone here know if that’s the standard way that commercial companies do that?
pretty much, they have to break up the solids into a sort of slush that can actually be sucked up through the hoses, just imagine the last time you got a SUPER thick milkshake and couldn't suck it up the straw. that's the difference between it being done right and what this guy is doing which is just pumping out the liquid on top, not to mention it's IMMEDIATELY deceitful for him to say "don't go spending 3 or 400 bucks" just grab this $400 worth of simple equipment that literally no one has just laying around save maybe the extra pieces of pvc, what a joke.
@@simisanco so, if after he pumped the liquid, he would've use water pressure to soften the solids and sludge, to a slush & then pump it again would that be ok?
OK so I have issues. 1 how is pumping out the grey water but leaving the sludge layer helping in the long run? 2 Where are you supposed to be hauling all that tank of BIOHAZZARD WASTE? 3 I'm assuming you have a BIOHAZZARD PERMIT to be hauling that sewage waste somewhere on the roadways right.....RIGHT???? Well probably not ... So if you get fought you have the money to pay the HUGE FINES for hauling large amounts of hazardous waste with out proper placards and endorsements on your DL RIGHT???.
In my area it’s $350 for a respectable wastewater company to pump out most tanks, and you’re supposed to pump it out every 3-5 years so it’s really not that bad to have someone do it for you. Although I applaud your craftsmanship
This system costs just as much in materials, so you only have to pay once for a lifetime of cleaning. Then you can sell your services for cheaper than the local businesses. Pump out two of your neighbors' tanks and you've already broken even.
Cmon man, guys pretty smart he’s not hiding anything . Bet you can run a hose from the tote down through the bed out to the pavement. Get out on a country road at 3 am driving at 50 mph. With in 20 minutes tank will be empty will be spread out over 10 miles at only a width of 3 inches and dried up before 8 am. Like it never happened
What is the purpose of this video? You spend way more on the pump, plumbing parts, tank & disposal fees than if you just use a professional sewage guy. And I'm damn sure that little pump is not sucking out the solids before clogging. Use common sense folks. Get a professional.
All you're doing is pumping the grey water from the tank. Solids and scum layer stay behind. The tank will be back to operating level in a few weeks so you've accomplished absolutely nothing. Also a bit deceiving for potential buyers of your property. Pumping the water out could mask other major issues within the system. It's a pay me now or pay me later type of thing. These are the tanks I spend hours cleaning and it ends up costing double or triple what it would cost to have a normal cleaning, not to mention leaving the solids in the tank could potentially lead to drain field failure....
He said that he mixed up the sludge so it would pump up and out.
I'm all about DIY and saving money but where do you take what you pump out of the tank?
The side of the road?
@@ding9633 umm no illegal and immoral and highly polluting
Dump it at city hall. L. O. L. Just kidding.
camp ground dump station
This video is only for people who want to save money themselves if you have money just called the Cesspool guy and don't waste your time making comments
So let me get this straight... By the time I spend money buying a pump and all the pipe I need, plus the time it takes and disposal fee etc... Why not just call the man to come pump it for 2 or 3 hundred bucks? And it be done the right way 😅
I have pumped mine with a trash pump several times. Forget hauling it unless you have to. I just pumped it out to the field on my lot. A lot easier and cheaper.
It's organic after all and if you have woods, field etc it will swiftly decompose there like anywhere else.
This video is NOT about cleaning a septic tank!
He is demonstrating how to cheat on home/septic inspection before selling property.
Would cost you 3 times what it cost to have a tank pumped for that stuff. Those well pumps are a few hundred and those tanks are a couple hundred. Then find a place to dump it legally or illegally.
“There it is, almost 250 pounds of…” Well buddy, that’s a 250 gallon tote, so I think you meant 250 x 8 pounds/gallon equals about 2000 pounds of effluent, and that truck suspension looks great!
This is a terrible idea! And totally misleading the buyer of the property. Unethical? Absolutely. You spent 20k for a reason, that home inspector didn't make a dime of your failed test.
I agree with you 100 percent. Unethical.
But what about all the sludge and solids on the top that can't be pumped, or are you just screwing the next guy by cheating the system.
Despite all the neg comments I am grateful you kept this video up, thank you. I am using this video to help me pump a leech field that I have hydro jetted. Just as an aside I got so fed up with the constant trolls and neg comments I hid all my magnetic laser sights for guns videos. Couldn't have been that bad I had a 0.05% return rate and everyone said I was a genius. (At the time)
You're also not using your head. Have it done right and have it disposed of in a safe manner.
@@randythomas3478 you're not using any of your faculties nobulon.
I hope you understand that jetting a drain field can harm pipes! Not always, but often enough! Be sure you run a cam in and look!
@@ArieteArmsRAMLITE your recent response proves you're not to bright on said topic.
It's 'too' not 'to'. I have since fixed 4 more septics, 2 last month on my extensive recently purchased property at the main and guest houses both with unique issues. Continue hating peenhelmer.....[Wonder why I have 2000 subs and no videos....mystery isn't it?] Noncegobbler.
take it to a truck stop they have dump stations 5 bucks
USE_LESS, this guy has no clue how a septic system works. The water level is maintained at a specific level by your drain field. When cleaning a tank, you want to get the sludge buildup off the bottom and the scum floating on the top. This video is pointless.
Terrible.. This is not about maintaining septic. Its about passing an inspection. Dishonest. Unethical.
What pump you used?? Please let me now thanks or send me photo to buy one please thansk
I would happily pay $300 for someone else to do it but the closest people to me are $570 something
I’d really like to know what he did with the tank he filled up!
its a no brainer, dump in a democrats yard a few miles away
@@MrDamecktech great idea
Im guessing an rv sewage dump. When i was in iraq i watched a honey dipper open the valve on a main road. Sewage every where.
We use a submersible to pump it out connected to a garden hose and we bucket a lot of the sludge from the top before we pump
I pump out my tank just like this than go drain it into the woods
hello! can i use small water pump 2 horse power only? bcos i dont have a big water pump. my septink tank is full of water bcos of flood and heavy rain in phillipines. i dont want to pay 250 dollar for suctioning. cannot afford...
Very informative. Where do you take this stuff? Do you have to have permit to take to waste facility? A 275 gallon tank will be around 2,200 lbs. weight. What is your truck axel rated for? Can you set one of these on a 8x10 utility trailer? This is smart if you do it right. Thanks for sharing.
Allow me to help hear.... NO I would not put that tank FULL of liquid on an 8x10 trailor... Unless you have a MAJOR AXILE set up on it. Also transporting raw sewage requires a special endorsement on your drivers license. Not just any Joe can do it. Except if it's in the holding tank on an RV Or Camper... Especially in a tank on a trailor or in the bed of a truck. The load is in greater danger of release in an accident that way. Also I don't know of any sewage processing center that would let any Joe blow pill up in a truck with a load in a tank and DUMP. That would raise all kinds of red flags.
So most likely what he does is 1 Go to his home or another home with sewer lines going to city sewer and pump the tank out into the clean out... OR 2 go to a camping dump station and DUMP there... However getting cought dumping that tank in a camper dumping station would mean Buu Cou TROUBLE!!!!!
@@bmaiceman the country is broke to enforce any laws. Much respect to the author of the video. He can dissolve the sludge and pump is again. Then hose it down until it’s perfect
@@bmaiceman You don't need endorsements on your license to transport sewage... I drive a vacuum truck for the state of California and the only thing I needed was a class cll drivers license because the truck I drive is under 26,000 lb gvw but no special endorsements except filing a liquid waste disposal permit with the local municipality That's why they make slip in tank units for pickups, towable vac tanks, and even have vacuum tanks for boats to do marine tank pump outs while on the water. Human waste is not usually considered hazardous waste.
Obviously you have no idea what a septic system is and what it does all you doing here is just pumping the water out and leaving all the sludge behind instead of helping the drainfield sistem. U r. Hurting it you better get a real septic tank company from now on
He is buying insurance to pass the inspection. This is not about maintaining septic. Its about passing an inspection.
I use the neighbors kids sand shovel & bucket to remove mine, then I return it in the night so they don’t know I used it, before that I used to scoop it out with taco shells.
I just used a wet/dry shop vac on my tank after mixing the tank with a mixing blade on my 1/4 horse drill.
Works great and was super cost effective. You can pump it into whatever sized container which you have a means to haul.
For example, my trailer only handles about 800lbs so Can haul two 55 gal PP barrels per trip.
Dumping is free at many locations around the US.
Didn’t that take for ever ? Like you had to fill the vacuum up then put it in container over an over ?
Tah Leeh nah ... I connected a 55 gallon barrel in series with the vacuum hose.
Merlin Grim you just cut a hole in the vacuum and put a hose ?
@@merlingrim2843 I see what you did there, made yourself little vacuum tank setup which is how the trucks work. Vacuum pump hooked up to a tank.
What size pump was that.
What pump is that?
I would do the same thing Ifbi was selling house but I wouldn't to go around telling everybody about it. Inspector puts in however many gallons is supposed to test your drain field
That pump has a 2 in suction hose. The pump has metal blades that break up the lizards coming out the pump.
Septic companies in northern wisconsin spray a full truck on a farm field, thats the only way its done around here. The workers then walk through it to pick up stuff like tampons, razors, etc.
Ahhh the commie State! It figures they pump out dangerous viruses and toxins on farmland!
@Ricky Robyn nice. All organic! Love it!
*HOSTESS:* "Do you like to have cream on your strawberries?"
*DINER:* "Good Lord no!" "We put horse manure on ours!"
Yeah but thats how listeria and selmonella etc spread to crops
I hope they don’t walk through it barefooted!
The WHAT pops out? Is there a choir singing in the background?
Ok, so it looks like there’s mostly guys here. I’m a DIY, too and would like to give this a try. I had a local company come out but they are charging $450 to pump tanks these days and folks in the neighborhood are complaining about it.
When I had them come out before, I watched the guy pump out our 1000 gallon septic tank. This was about five years ago. After he pumped all the liquid from the inlet he used our garden hose to break up the sludge. I don’t know if that works. Does anyone here know if that’s the standard way that commercial companies do that?
pretty much, they have to break up the solids into a sort of slush that can actually be sucked up through the hoses, just imagine the last time you got a SUPER thick milkshake and couldn't suck it up the straw. that's the difference between it being done right and what this guy is doing which is just pumping out the liquid on top, not to mention it's IMMEDIATELY deceitful for him to say "don't go spending 3 or 400 bucks" just grab this $400 worth of simple equipment that literally no one has just laying around save maybe the extra pieces of pvc, what a joke.
@@simisanco so, if after he pumped the liquid, he would've use water pressure to soften the solids and sludge, to a slush & then pump it again would that be ok?
OK so I have issues.
1 how is pumping out the grey water but leaving the sludge layer helping in the long run?
2 Where are you supposed to be hauling all that tank of BIOHAZZARD WASTE?
3 I'm assuming you have a BIOHAZZARD PERMIT to be hauling that sewage waste somewhere on the roadways right.....RIGHT???? Well probably not ... So if you get fought you have the money to pay the HUGE FINES for hauling large amounts of hazardous waste with out proper placards and endorsements on your DL RIGHT???.
Calm down Karen.
What’s the name of the At pump that you are using
How long should you wait to pump out a spetic tank
Where did you dumpster at??
Where did you get the pump at
Nit wit.
My friend that’s a 2” pvc. You are not properly maintaining your septic.
Most of that is grey water.
What's the vacuum cost
What the make and model of the pump?
Where do you go dump it
where can you rent pump
In my area it’s $350 for a respectable wastewater company to pump out most tanks, and you’re supposed to pump it out every 3-5 years so it’s really not that bad to have someone do it for you. Although I applaud your craftsmanship
This system costs just as much in materials, so you only have to pay once for a lifetime of cleaning. Then you can sell your services for cheaper than the local businesses. Pump out two of your neighbors' tanks and you've already broken even.
the poop man himself LOL
where'd you get rid of it?
go to an RV sani dump
Where do you empty that tank in your truck?
I bet he takes it down a Back Road
My thoughts Exactly
Cmon man, guys pretty smart he’s not hiding anything . Bet you can run a hose from the tote down through the bed out to the pavement. Get out on a country road at 3 am driving at 50 mph. With in 20 minutes tank will be empty will be spread out over 10 miles at only a width of 3 inches and dried up before 8 am. Like it never happened
What kind of pump did you use. Any more details on fittings erc?
What is the purpose of this video? You spend way more on the pump, plumbing parts, tank & disposal fees than if you just use a professional sewage guy. And I'm damn sure that little pump is not sucking out the solids before clogging. Use common sense folks. Get a professional.