Discover How To Preserve Your Bamboo 🔥🔥🔥

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🔥 🔥Heat curing bamboo makes it last longer for building use or in the garden. Bamboo can be used for many practical purposes. If it's not treated the bugs love to eat it. Harvesting it at the end of the dry season is best because all the sugars are depleted so it's not so attractive to the bugs. Heat treating it over an open fire and rubbing the waxy substance onto the stems helps preserve them greatly.
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[@suansook]

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[@RypienGT]

I've seen people use a blowtorch and a vice with the same technique, but while under heat you can also bend the Bamboo into curved shapes (ideal for furniture) and when it cools it stays in the shape.

[@suansook]

Yes, it is possible to bend some types of bamboo using heat, but the bamboo we have is very thick and woody so I have to do a lot more than heat it when I want to bend it. I am still experimenting with how to bend my bamboo effectively.

[@shockwavegaming1376]

Such a good video. I've been learning about bamboo and am excited to grow/build with it. This when to cut and how to cure video was very informative. I love learning from people like you. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@suansook]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed this video and found it helpful.

[@boualianelakkham3]

Thank you this is interesting a viedio,it help me alot,just wonder if this will keep bug away from it

[@suansook]

It does make a difference, but is not 100% effective. Here's a video of another method I use to treat bamboo kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH2sgJV9qZalZqM

[@jackbloznowski5429]

Why do you have to rub the resin with a rag. Wouldn't it be just as good if not better if you just let the resin sit the way it is after heating it? You would have more resin on the surface.

[@suansook]

I find that rubbing it spreads the resin more evenly

[@madisonbriar8856]

Awesome! I'm about to cure my bamboo tomorrow morning. Color change looks great on the video- thanks!

[@suansook]

Great. Please let me know how you get on! I have started building a small table with some of the bamboo I treated recently

[@valeriemadison7450]

Hi and thanks for the video! Do you ever have any bamboo explode from the heat? Or do you break out the nodes prior to putting in the fire?

[@KevinLJ-Photography]

I don't leave it in the fire long enough for there to be a risk of it exploding. Our bamboo is very thick so it would take a long time for it to heat up enough to explode.

[@valeriemadison7450]

@@KevinLJ-Photography Thank you!

[@danotieno323]

Bore a hole below each node to allow hot air to escape

[@Baka868]

Thank you colonel

[@suansook]

:)

[@acatisfinetoo6921]

After doing this, the bamboo needs to be sit for some time after, or it can be used right away ?

[@suansook]

I usually leave mine for a while before using it. I cut a bunch at the beginning of the rainy season and treat it, then leave it until I have a need to use it.

[@Norbingel]

I would love to know how this has worked out or if there are more formal studies on this? I know bamboo companies use quite a laborious and long process, using things like borax/boric acid to treat bamboo. If this works quite well, it seems like they would use this method instead so I'm assuming this doesn't work as well? It does seem to me like a little bit of singeing like you did here wouldn't be enough to get all or even most of the sugars out.

[@suansook]

It is not as effective as soaking, but it's quicker and easier.

[@Norbingel]

@@suansook I will give a try nonetheless. I don't have the time and resources for a full soak treatment for only a few poles I'm likely to use. Perhaps a longer burn that actually chars the surface like shou sugi ban?

[@suansook]

Try a longer, slower burn with lots of smoke. I read somewhere recently that the smoke is also a deterrent for bugs when using this process

[@Norbingel]

@@suansook Great advice. We make charcoal as well so there might be a spot there somewhere where we just use the excess heat or smoke. Thank you!

[@WorstUsernameInDaWeb]

Hi, how differ the durability between non heat treated bamboo and treated one? I live in indonesia and i believe we have different bamboo types. We treated it by cutting the base and simply let the leaves sucked every liquid within bottom up and after that we soak it in the river for days. It worked but It take so much time, im gonna try the heat method if the difference of durability is make sense.

[@suansook]

I prefer to cut the bamboo a the end of the dry season so all of the sugars in the bamboo have been used up, and then heat treat it. Heating it in this way helps it last longer, but I've not made records for how much longer it can last. I have read about washing and soaking bamboo in borax but have not tried this method. When you cut the bamboo do you cut the main stem completely and leave it standing in place? How long do you leave it before you soak it?

[@WorstUsernameInDaWeb]

@@suansook yes i leave it standing till the leaves wilted and the bamboo fell by itself, usually 4-5 days then cut only the straight sections before soak it in the river mainly because bamboo in my area tend to curve after 4meters . I need to go 40km away to find straight 6-9 meters bamboo. Never tried borax, only fipronil if theres sign of powder post beetles

[@suansook]

@@WorstUsernameInDaWeb Thanks. I will try your method next time!

[@boneshome]

​@suansook how about soaking in borax after the heat treatmeant? Will it help preserve better? Do you also close the ends after the process?

[@jamesrosales89]

this is really helpful thankyou so much :) do you recommend drilling a hole in each section of the bamboo ? is that neccessary ?

[@suansook]

Cool! Glad you find it helpful. I've not bothered drilling holes when using this method. When I soak the bamboo in borax and boric acid I do drill holes because it allows the liquid to affect the interior as well. This is most useful when I later split the bamboo to use. I do intend to experiment more and soak some culms without drilling holes, as the holes don't look great and also affect the strength of the culms.

[@kenfarley957]

Can you split it after?

[@suansook]

If you want to split your bamboo, then the treatment I outline in this video is better kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH2sgJV9qZalZqM

[@addmendinc9656]

What’s N6?

[@ForwardEngineering]

So do you pop the inner segments before heating it up? It wont blow up if its on the fire to long?

[@suansook]

No, I don't pop the segments. There's no need to because I don't need to keep the bamboo in the fire very long, no where near long enough that the bamboo would start to explode.

[@YAHaqabNatsariym2701]

Check out minute 5:48 there you will see that the bamboo type he has isn’t the same as the thin walled sectioned but is more wooded. I wish we did have access to the type he has. Looks strong!

[@madisonbriar8856]

I think the substance that is released from the bamboo is called "resin"

[@suansook]

Thanks!

[@johnnycakeslim]

Hi / I'm retired here in Philippines with a good supply of bamboo and student of working with it. I bought some boric acid, borax and made a solution to pour in the poles after cutting, but it seems my supply of 1 kilo each ran out pretty quick. Im very interested to try this fire method. Does it work as well as boric acid to keep the termites away? Im building some furniture for inside. Thanks so much

[@suansook]

From my experience I've found the borax/boric acid preserves the bamboo better. I used one kilo of each and soaked many culms this way inside a length of pvc pipe. I had to drill holes in the side as the nodes of our bamboo are too thick and strong to be able to punch out (which is not so good if you are wanting to have nice looking whole culms for making furnature.)

[@johnnycakeslim]

@@suansook Thanks for this. my purpose is mostly to stop the termite powder residue that seems to come out on the floor after just a few weeks if i don't try something

[@suansook]

@@johnnycakeslim You could try cutting a couple of short pieces and soak one and heat the other and leave them and observe so you can see which method works best for you.

[@koicaine1230]

I think the resin is actually silica, whatever it is, it can last over 200 years.

[@JimmyFloridatube]

I think a butane or propane torch would get the job done without all the work and smoke.

[@suansook]

Yeah, it would, but then I'd have no biochar (and I don't have a torch)

[@myninewlife086]

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[@suansook]

Hello

[@thomasmurray4717]

Great video. However, I’d appreciate American English. I just can’t understand you. That being said, keep up the good work. 👍👍

[@suansook]

Haha. Sorry, no American English :) Just keep watching my videos until you become bi-lingual :) Glad you enjoyed the video tho!

[@sonnybaker8100]

⁠@@suansookI understand you perfectly, mate. Born and bred American here. I admire Aussie accents. I think that’s what I’m detecting? Great video, and thank you for it!

[@suansook]

@@sonnybaker8100 :) It's a New Zealand accent. I'm glad to know you can understand me :) and that you enjoyed the video.

[@believer2010ful]

Too much work here

[@suansook]

It's not so much work when you have a good set-up. I'm continuing to improve mine