Steven Winscot Oh it’s there, ya just gotta look a bit for it.
Bamboo structure projects?
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Denny O Iowa Team Camo Canning Gardening Cast Iron Regular Contributors Power User Green Mountain Grill last edited by
Wowzers, I had no idea that bamboo was grown in the USA!
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cdavis Masterbuilt Canning Kamado Joes Regular Contributors Power User Sous Vide Oklahoma Team Camo last edited by
AdamusLignus we have some bamboo growing wild along some of the creeks around here. But nowhere near the size of that stuff. You should be able to build anything with that stuff. Congrats
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@AdamLignus we moved from Chicago to NC about ten years ago and have an unrelenting bamboo forest at the back of our year. Most of our grass is actually bamboo grass. If we keep it mowed, it looks nice, and it grows by the foot each week if you don’t mow it. I use it for fences to keep deer away from grapes and vegetables or fence posts to hold bird netting. Our grandkids love it for making teepees, and we’ve used some to make legs for tables. A friend with more patience than me cut a couple of pieces into rings and made cheese boards out of them. We’ve even relived my old scouting days and lashed some together to make a bridge over a small creek. It looks great and sounds great in the wind, but it is a weed. Have fun!
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AdamusLignus Please please post updates if you do this!
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processhead Power User Regular Contributors Smoker Build Expert Bowl Choppers Nebraska Veteran Team Camo last edited by
I traveled in Vietnam in the 1980’s and saw them use bamboo for the framework for a construction scaffold on the exterior of a multistory modern building that was going up.
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardening last edited by
AdamusLignus I would think you should be able to build a frame and cover that with a tarp. I don’t know how flexible it is but if it would bend, you could make an arch.
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AdamusLignus Mater Steaks, Fishing Poles, Subfloor surface for an out door raised pavilion, Outdoor pavilion thatched roof, I need to stop.
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bocephus Once you get to the tops, it gets pretty flexible…so in theory I could use the base for structural pieces and the tops for arching support?
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calldoctoday I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter. I’m curious what all goes into the roof and if it would work for my purposes. That would be pretty great.
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AdamusLignus The ones that I have seen had bamboo double layered & crisscrossed & palm fronds laid over that. I have seen some used that some company sells. It was bout 15 - 20 or so ago on a project. I keep thinking I some homemade too, that looked pretty good. I don’t know why maybe you could not just use the bamboo put in place first vertically so to say, over purlins or horizontal directly over the rafters, then another layer crossed over in the opposite direction, then a final layer vertical (from gutter edge to ridge). Then dried in place & sealed with something like CWF or something. I would not use it for the main house, but for a gazebo or something it would probably interesting, fairly long lived, inexpensive in your case, & fairly watertight with lots of ventilation. I suppose if you wanted them to carry off more water faster, you could split the final layer so it would be like trough, so to say.
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