Making a bamboo hammock [and other uses for bamboo].

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bladerique

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Here's our friend from Malaysia again with a vid on yet another use for bamboo. The stuff holds drinkable water, it's light and strong for shelter [once you get the water out] and you can use it for a cooking vessel. Is there anything this stuff won't do?

[video=youtube;Z_nlELHC8vI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_nlELHC8vI&feature=feedu[/video]

The bamboo I've seen in North America is the thinner stuff. I'd like to play around with the big variety.

Oh yeah, it's too bad that "junglecrafty" [the vid maker] has disabled comments. I'd like to thank him for his great vids and ask him about the sharpness of the bamboo used in the video. How easy would it be to get cut in a basic bamboo hammock? I think I'd fill mine with leaves.

I'll find some other bamboo vids and add them here. Feel free to do likewise.
 
i love bamboo - it's probably the most versatile natural material out there. we eat the shoots too (we consider it a vegetable). cordage is probably the only thing it can't supply since the skin gets brittle once it's dry. horn dog posted pics a few weeks ago of the big variety (like the ones in the two vids you posted).
 
my place downtown Angeles City, Philippines (just outside Clark AFB) had just a ceiling fan and no AC....it was comfortable to sleep because the bed was made of thin strips of bamboo with spaces between them to circulate air...did not use a sheet... same with the pillow, an elongated tube of bamboo strips...
 
Saw this video earlier today. Junglecrafty also has one up of how to make a jungle chair. Both of these were intriguing.
 
Watched a History Channel show set in New Guinea where they butchered a wild pig with bamboo knives. When it got dull they peeled the edge off at an angle and kept cutting. I was really surpised at how sharp it was.--KV
 
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