Back in mid-2010, before leaving Campbell River, I saw a modification Croft had made to his RV that made me drool.

It only took two and a half years, but I now have a wonderfully practical and non-messy way to store my sewer hose!

All it involves is attaching behind the rear bumper a length of rigid pipe with a wider diameter than the sewer pipe and then finding a way to secure the ends so the sewer hose won’t slip out.

I bought a long length of pipe in Oliver and somewhere down the road, I cut it in two. I only really need the short end, so the other half has been in the way. No more!

(When I’m on sewer hook ups, I slip the sewer hose into the pipe to protect the hose. I once had someone mow a lawn to close to my pipe, throw up a rock, and pierce the hose.)

The pipe is held behind the bumper. There just happened to be a couple of unused bolt holes into which we were able to insert eye bolts for attaching the pipe with zip ties, so this was a super easy project.

At the far end, the pipe has two zip ties in a cross formation. At the user end, a removable bolt goes in one side and out the other where it is held by a whatchmacallit that kind of looks like a giant bobby pin.

A hole was drilled into the bolt to hold the whatchmacallit that goes into it to keep the bolt from falling out.