Chapter 2: Bamboo Treatment and Storage

[@mrbisaya]

how is this process comparable to the soaking method of the entire pole? Not considering the time

[@archianosohliya3436]

What specifications should i look for while getting the air compressor?

[@neddana7581]

What is the name of those clamps that are shown clamping the rubber fitting to the bamboo? Where can I purchase them?

[@doittoday1]

I’m sure you could use a pipe clamp instead of the t- handle clamp he used. You could use a drill motor with the appropriate sized socket to tighten/loosen as needed. Hope this helps

[@kamarupa1009]

Can the remaining solution be reused? By this I mean any borax/boric acid solution that comes out of a treated piece of bamboo...

[@pabloricardodetarragon2649]

No it's full of sugar.

[@samenameasoddo]

I dont understand. So from one node to the next is a chamber. If how do you get hole into the chamber far stretch from reach?? In other words do you have to make hole anywhere or does the borax solution just break its way down slowly?

[@snake21ab]

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[@tommavrakos]

What about making a hole through each node

[@vikaspandey7053]

is there other way, where i require no tools, just boric acid and borax solution.

[@maryangelinebaura5413]

is borax and boric acid recommended for outdoor like fence? How long will it last? Thank You.

[@INBARofficial]

yes, this method should be followed for all bamboo to be used in construction. To allow for longer lasting bamboo, you can use other treatments and preservatives - this method is the "basic" protection method.

[@upward_onward]

This treatment can be used in bamboo that has been cut any time of the year or it works on bamboo that has been cut in a particular season ?

[@windshieldraindrops8228]

Works in any bamboo cut at any time but the treatment must start within 24 hours from cutting it off

[@upward_onward]

@@windshieldraindrops8228 Thank you so much for the comment.

[@windshieldraindrops8228]

@@upward_onward welcome bro

[@archianosohliya3436]

Traditionally the bamboo has to be harvested during newmoon times and most preferrably not during rainy season

[@govin4675]

No. This method only applies to freshly cut bamboo. The entire process is based on sugar exchange with the chemical. If the bamboo is older than 24 hours, the sugar solution will crystallize in the bamboo. The sugar crystals are difficult to replace and impossible with this method. I am currently building this model with LPG gas cylinders in Kathmandu. (10.23)

[@himanshushrestha9441]

Just did filling the bamboo with the solution of boric acid and borax . We made hole through the culms using steel rid and held the bamboo in an inclined position.The quantity used was 500gms of boric acid and 500gms of borax with 15 litres of water . Idk if thats the proper ratio .also this method costs alot still Just wanted to experiment. How long does it have to be soaked?? If used brouchire method how long does it take to trear a aingle bamboo??

[@himanshushrestha9441]

#Buocherie

[@himanshushrestha9441]

The bamboo is entirely to be used for indoor purpose is there any other ways to treat bamboo in a cheap way to be used for interiors??

[@lhk4171]

Is the full 30 litres of solution used up on 5 canes of bamboo? If so it's a lot of borax and boron to use. It's an ingenious system though as the used material can be used on the fields. I am about to try it.

[@laabhn]

Can we cut the bamboo in diameter and also in length and then soak it in boron solution, will it work??

[@INBARofficial]

Hi there! There are a few different methods for treatment, but in general just soaking the bamboo in the treatment will not work - it is essential that the treatment gets into the inside of the bamboo, whether by gravity, pressure or another method.

[@peppinogavoni3537]

Excellent video and explanation. I would like to ask, is this possible also for culms that have been harvested longer than 24 hours before? Or does anything need to be changed, i.e. the nodes must be perforated?

[@INBARofficial]

This technique isn't recommended for culms older than 24 hours old. If you don't have a boucherie machine, you can perforate the bamboo and let the borax solution enter the plant using gravity. But the culms still need to be fresh.

[@kevinmencer3782]

@@INBARofficial no need to perforate the culm. Just sit it up straight in a bucket containing the solution, and the still living bamboo will take it up. Keep the solution topped off, and when all the leaves are dead, the process is complete. It takes longer, but it works.

[@LetsMars]

@@kevinmencer3782 thanks, I’ll have try that. This process looked too time consuming and costly at large scale.

[@vikaspandey7053]

@@kevinmencer3782 is there a video demonstration?

[@dollynismal5707]

I would like to ask if it is OK to soaked the bamboo in an borax/borax solutions rather than to buy a machine. Thank u

[@INBARofficial]

Hi Dolly! Yes, it is OK - but only if you ensure that the bamboo nodes are perforated so that the borax can completely cover the bamboo culm in- and outside. Hope this helps!

[@realways6173]

Does this stop fungie aswell? I just finished my Boucherie treatment system, i´m so happy it really works! i´m using Borax pentahydrate and Boric Acid in a scale 1:10 for Bambusa Oldhamii poles. I would like to sell them with a 20 year guarantee (indoor use) but i´m not really sure its good idea :l Is it?? I´ve invested lots of time and cash. I hope i can trust this method and leave behind imersion and VSD. I will apretiate any reply...

[@pabloricardodetarragon2649]

Read the other posts... The Boucherie method is the most effective, if you follow these 2 rules; the bamboo must be freshly cut (less than 24 hours) and the pressure must be constant (that means that you have a small air compressor with its own air tank, an air regulator to get a constant pressure and after the tank with the boron solution which is maintained at a constant pressure whatever the quantity of solution injected in the culms). So the sugary sap is steadily expulsed from the culm as the the 150 grams solution is far denser than the sap. I counsel you to dye the solution, it makes easier to visualize the process and to give you a proof of treatment By experience I know that 1/10 around 100-110 grs of salts per liter of water is a bit low. 130 to 150 gr of salts give more consistent results against aggressive termites. It makes also the treatment easier. I use Disodium octaborate tetrahydrate, sold cheaply as ordinary boron foliar fertilizer like the brand Foliarel almost everywhere, and sold very expensively as wood treatment like the brands Tim Bor or Bora Care in the States and some other countries. So be wise... If you find octaborate at good price un your country as fertilizer it's far easier to use than the classic mix 60% borax/ 40% boric acid (by weight). The difference of cost is minimal at least in Mexico and Costa Rica. You can give 20 years in indoor use on culms treated with a 150 grams solution. The salts will diffuse everywhere by osmosis. The culms are totally unpalatable to wood borers and fungus. .

[@selectedsolutions]

With this method you dont havento pierce all the nodes?

[@jerrywhidby.]

Correct. And you could also place the bamboo in a bucket of this solution until the leaves fall off in a couple of weeks.

[@bonntumanda865]

Good job. I just like to ask where to buy the metal funnel like component of your buocherie?

[@pabloricardodetarragon2649]

Made very easily by any weldor.

[@muralimuvvala]

Very good information

[@poisonforlunch]

cant you just soak the bamboo in this solution and let it soak up instead of this method?

[@pabloricardodetarragon2649]

Yes you can soak the bambou during 15 days at least. To be 100 % sure one month You have just to pierce all the nods of each culm with a steel bar, it's a lot of work. To make also a concrete or geotextile pool of the length of the culms and containing at least 100 to 200 culms with thousands of liters of solution, tons of weights to keep the culms down in the solution, a roof over the pool so the rain won't dilute the solution, and you end after taking out the culms to dry with a pool filled with thousands of liters of solution now contaminated by the sugars of the sap. You can re-use it 2 times more after adding borate salts but you'll have to dispose of it. It seems to me that a simple Boucherie pressure system is less expensive than several roofed pools, is portable and more effective as it injects the solution just where needed and displaces the sap containing the sugars...And there is no waste.

[@bikramsinghdeka]

Can these treated bamboo be installed outdoors

[@pabloricardodetarragon2649]

Yes, if the bamboos are made water repellent so the rein water do not leach out the boron salts..

[@drdenis72]

Any idea where I can buy Borax and Boric Acid in Nepal?

[@INBARofficial]

I'm sorry Denis, we don't have a contact database for Nepal at the moment.

[@windshieldraindrops8228]

Buy from hardware pasal online or from kathmandu

[@bechankumarmastertrainerbsdma]

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[@cramkan]

how to make a nature product toxic ?

[@curiousinvestigator5448]

No more toxic than table salt

[@raihanabir7326]

It's helpful Thanks

[@shivanandshukla8720]

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[@bechankumarmastertrainerbsdma]

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[@bhoot1702]

1:53 That's a dense bamboo

[@enacelaya5303]

Excelent !

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[@lsticker1144]

woderfull how do you holed the anode of the bamboos?? how do you make hole through all the bomboos anode . hahaha . funny and nice

[@makemakebamdibomproduction474]

GOOD

[@shivanandshukla8720]

jai shri krishna

[@21gonza21]

Way Too much work

[@hassanuddin6923]

How to do it as effectively but with less labour/inputs? Stand bamboos up and put funnel on top and let soul it ngo down by gravity? Cheaper I suppose but takes a couple of days

[@binod145]

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