(I know I’m way out in left field here, but seeing as how, by definition, you boys and girls are a DIY crowd I figured I’d throw it out there. )
TL, DR: Parents have an invasive bamboo patch that I’m looking to utilize to build a couple of archery target stands/enclosures to sit outside year-round. Looking for tips.
My folks recently moved out to PA to a nice place about 20 minutes away to be closer to the grandbabies. On their 8ish acres there’s a sizable bunch (patch…grove…stand…forest, whatever) of bamboo. Zero idea on the species, maybe 20-25’ high, largest diameter appears to be around 3-4ish inches.
During the height of COVID, when I wasn’t at the hospital, we obviously didn’t do much and I was in the backyard a lot with girls shooting our bows. Let me tell you how old it gets dragging a Matrix and one of those Bulldog bag targets about 40yards out from under the cover of the girls’ play set. Anyway, I had a grand idea to set up a covered stand for them in the far corner where I put them. Well, availability and price of any construction materials during the time gave me the excuse to not even give it a go.
My parents move to the new place from Wisconsin and I see this bamboo and I start getting ideas again. Basically I have heard that it’s extremely difficult to kill this stuff and it regrows crazy fast. My dad is on board, and while he likes the bamboo forest, taking down a hundred of them wouldn’t even make a dent.
So! With all that being said, has anyone harvested and crafted anything out of bamboo? It doesn’t have to be pretty, and honestly probably doesn’t even have to have crazy longevity. I just want it to support the 50 or whatever pounds a Bulldog and/or Matrix target is to keep it out of the mud (yard has serious drainage issues), and keep the sun and rain off them. Like a little bowhunting tiki hut. I’ll work on the rum bar later.
Thanks for coming to my wandering monologue. 