RV SEWER ERUPTION - Black Tank Issues, How To, and Advice

We're starting off the year with a bang! Brian hooked up some brand new Rhino sewer hoses, opened the black tank, and was greeted with every RVer's worst nightmare - the contents of your black tank gushing out onto the ground.

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⏱ Chapters:
0:00 Intro
3:06 Sewer Eruption
5:20 Terrible Site
6:06 Clogged Sewer Story
8:44 Open Valves Story
13:05 Sewer Destruction Theory
14:13 January 1 Video
15:50 Outro

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[raymondcollado]

RUT Murphys Law! Thank you for the video! Happy New Year‼️

[carterjames]

Good information keep up the knowledge for everyone

[chayabrody]

Was wondering where your January 1 video was

[johnkashka]

Seems like a vent issue..maybe the park needs to add more vents..

[KrausBean]

Anyone that watched this video and owns an RV that gets offended by the content should rethink owning an RV because this is a fact of RV Life. People need to get over it.

[dianabergeron]

OMG, that’s awful. Did the campground fix the sewer the right way so no one else has issues?

[theprinthouseco]

That campground is bad. That same thing happened to us in a Campground near Miami.

[DeebraRogers]

So we had something very similar happen three days ago at Sherwood forest. Not a fan

[helenettlin]

For us newbies, are you referring to Sherwood Forest RV Park near Orlando? Need to know where not to go…

[inezramhally]

This not an RV issue but an RV park problem.

[tysonpowell]

Sherwood Forest is where my bike was stolen! 🙁

[mostlyho]

So OK, this is entirely on me: got a brand-new sewer hose set (happy birthday to me?) which came with two plugs, one for each end of the stinky slinky — neat! Fast forward to next time I’m dumping and all is going well…except…nothing’s coming out when I open the black tank valve…? I suddenly have an awful thought: did I forget to remove one of the plugs? AND, rather than thinking to close the black valve, I…didn’t. Instead, panicking, I unscrewed from the “sewer main” on my rig and BOOYA! Black tank contents shot out all over me. I was wearing gloves, but what I really needed was a full-body condom. I managed to jam the other fitting onto my main and minimize the effluvia somewhat, but let’s just say I’m glad there was a concrete culvert to a sewer drain, a hose, and no near neighbors at that time. Managed to get it all cleaned up — thankfully nice hot showers and laundry facilities on-site — but now I count out, “one, two” to make sure both plugs are accounted for.

[conniejohnson]

So if you have had all these problems at this campsite, why are you back at it again? Surely there is something else in the area. What a horrible experience.

[esthers]

OMG. That’s awful. We had one such experience and hope to never repeat it. We went to dump and unbeknownst to my husband, a piece had fallen off the previous time we dumped so the hose wasn’t properly connected. Of course black tank is pouring out in the ground. Closed it quickly. He had to hold it together manually and slowly empty the tank. Lesson learned. Since then we always open grey tank valve for a second to be sure that there is no issue. We close it and proceed to empty black tank.
BTW, you are right that it is an awful site, particularly for the neighbour that is set up facing your sewer connection.
Hope you recover your footage 🤞

[richardmoore]

This has to be the most crappy video you have ever done🤣 Happy New Year Five2Go🥳❤️

[EmbraceTheExperience]

We had the same issue at a campground recently and I even opened the gray first to test and then the black BUT it was the campground that admitted they had a sewer backup problem on our side of the park — I had to do slow flow dumps for a little bit at a time just to get our grey down enough to travel and waited to dump the black at our next stop!

[mikeandre]

Wow that's crazy that reminds me of the RV movie with Robin Williams👍👍😳

[LukeRT]

"Where do I need to stand" says it all lol

[amypletcher]

Just clicked on this video. Glad I did so it is an idea to double check the values and the dump site!! Hey, by the way, did you show this video to the office so they could explain to you what happened or fix the issue while you were staying there? After all, you were paying for full hookups!

[robertroth]

Now that is what I call a solid start to a new year.