Not sure then that the C-Head is a compost toilet....coming from a Certified Organic farming system and having composted 60 cu metre truck loads of chicken manure/sawdust mixtures combined with various other ingredients....the vital one being water....The pile will sit inert until it gets wet.So the C-head to me is storage method rather than a compost method.Thats not necessarily bad but the compost process can under ideal conditions render the offending material relatively inoffensive....and useable in the garden...probably not on vege garden but certainly in the bottom of a planting hole for a tree or shrubThat seems to be one of the fundamental differences between the Airhead and the C-Head. The Airhead uses moist material and the C-Head uses dry material. I asked Sandy who owns the C-Head company. He confirmed that. The object of the C-Head dry material is that it quickly absorbs the moisture from the poo and therefore, the smell. Most of us have owned a dog and know that fresh poo in the yard is very smelly, but dried poo has no smell at all. Same principle.
bartmac wrote:Not sure then that the C-Head is a compost toilet....coming from a Certified Organic farming system and having composted 60 cu metre truck loads of chicken manure/sawdust mixtures combined with various other ingredients....the vital one being water....The pile will sit inert until it gets wet.So the C-head to me is storage method rather than a compost method.Thats not necessarily bad but the compost process can under ideal conditions render the offending material relatively inoffensive....and useable in the garden...probably not on vege garden but certainly in the bottom of a planting hole for a tree or shrubThat seems to be one of the fundamental differences between the Airhead and the C-Head. The Airhead uses moist material and the C-Head uses dry material. I asked Sandy who owns the C-Head company. He confirmed that. The object of the C-Head dry material is that it quickly absorbs the moisture from the poo and therefore, the smell. Most of us have owned a dog and know that fresh poo in the yard is very smelly, but dried poo has no smell at all. Same principle.
In order to help the next person trying to make a decision which toilet to go with or in....Hugh wrote:Pulled the trigger on a Nature's Head today. Bought in from a B.C. company The Harbour Chandler in Nanaimo. extra pee bottle and a Nicro Solar Vent. Free shipping tipped the deal.
Before this, I emailed NH directly and got a reply from Larry within the hour via phone and then a followup call the next day answering a clarifying question. Who calls anyone these day? Wow!
If the product is as good as the service I've received so far, this will be a winner.
I'll keep you posted on the install on Cedar Wind
Hugh
: I want to add what I've gleaned and why we went with NH To me, All three units mentioned in this Thread ; Airhead, C Head and Nature's Head appear to be well made and function in a similar way. Not exactly the same as no doubt Sandy or Larry or Airhead folks would point out. owners, we, however, have no idea what our usage patterns will be nor how long we will be out sailing at one time. We erred on the side of capacity and the potential for more composting to take place before we have to empty.
Go to http://www.tinypic.com, hit 'choose file' button, find your pic (easiest if you put it somewhere you can find it easily), left-click the pic and click on 'open' at the bottom-right, click 'upload now', do what it says to get past security, then left-click (to highlight it) on the second line down on the page that comes up, which has the UBB code already on each end, and right-click to copy the link. Just paste the link into your post (don't add any UBB code - just paste it in, on its own line so you don't force a wide post), and the pic will show.Bobglas wrote: Don't know how to upload image
tkanzler wrote:Go to http://www.tinypic.com, hit 'choose file' button, find your pic (easiest if you put it somewhere you can find it easily), left-click the pic and click on 'open' at the bottom-right, click 'upload now', do what it says to get past security, then left-click (to highlight it) on the second line down on the page that comes up, which has the UBB code already on each end, and right-click to copy the link. Just paste the link into your post (don't add any UBB code - just paste it in, on its own line so you don't force a wide post), and the pic will show.Bobglas wrote: Don't know how to upload image
There are, of course, better sites out there for photo storage and management (tp doesn't do either - just hosts it), but to put a pic up quick, without creating an account or anything, I use tinypic. Sounds like a lot of steps, but it takes me less than 30 seconds to post a pic that way.
Like this one.
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I pre loaded peat moss in ziplocs to keep spillage down. Very happy so far! 
