In article , TonyK
writes
We have an old septic tank, ie. big concrete box in the ground, half
settlement tank and half clinker.

The tank is well past is useby date and we've just discovered the original
drains are failing etc. I'm looking at a £3K bill just to get the damn thing
emptied due to its location.


That sounds horrendous, where the hell is it? we had one at the bottom
of the garden next to a river which was too far from the road to empty,
we always used a local farmer to empty ours and he just drove in the
field the other side of the river with his sludgebuster and emptied it
across the river, cost about £70 IIRC.
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David