Hello everyone we thought of building a structure using bamboo using a traditional method (which does not use any nail/screw/wire to make any joint in the structure).
The design of structure (to be build) is given below.
Took a hollow bamboo (less dense from inside) and clamped it via vice.
With this Hex saw i am getting slightly slope cut, tried again, adjusted the blade but found the blade is anyhow getting tilt, So decide to use a wood Saw, finally got a true cut.
After cutting four bigger legs and two small legs, its time for drilling a hole for a adjacent bamboo which must be having dia less than 60 % of the bamboo leg dia. So insering a adjacent smaller dia bamboo into hole drilled on leg bamboo is all the trick and a traditional method.
Drill press with a 1/4 inch drill bit is used to make the drill.
Building bamboo structures using nails to connect links is a big mistake. Making holes in a large diameter bamboo and inserting the smaller bamboo in the hole is far better. But still better would be to design with Tripod structures with the 3 legs each of which is below one and above the other! Please post your improvements, modifications, drawbacks, mistakes on Bamboo Tripods for Support of Plants from Wind and Rain. bamboo tripod to support plants from falling
No nails were used in the current design. In fact smaller diameter bamboo are inserted to holes made on larger diameter bamboo and for more rigidity the mixture of fevicol and bamboo powder collected while cutting and drilling bamboo is filled in the small gaps around the intersections.
No nails, Not at all. Ashish uses only holes, bamboo dust, gum. The bamboo tripod uses only rope, no holes nor gum. Inspired by Arvind Gupta, I had roped together 3 pencil like ball point pens using rubber bands to form the first tripod. Let me locate and share a picture. You too can make such rubber banded tripod with pencils- make sure each pencil is below one but above the other pencil. Again thank you Arvind Gupta! His two dimensional triangle using rubber banded match sticks led to the three dimensional rubber banded pencil tripod.
Ashish: " traditional method (which does not use any nail/screw/wire to make any joint in the structure).". Traditional bamboo/ rattan / cane furniture and structures use only wire / rope to make joints. Also heat to bend and reshape the cane. Even flat surfaces, like the one on a chair (or cot) where we sit on (or sleep) are made of strings, wires or ropes. Structurally a rope tie makes the best joint. We should promote such traditional cane and bamboo furniture.
Lantana is an allelopathic weed that damages forests in Karnataka and elsewhere. Lantana can be used instead of rattan. Lantana would be a boon instead of bane if it is used instead of cane for furniture, trellis, and plant support.
Went to the google drive and saw your (G_N) access request. I found that the “accessible by anyone with the link” was not selected. Sorry. Ashish can you read it now please?
from Lantana- Wikipedia : The Soliga, Korava and Palliyar tribal people of the MM Hills in southern Karnataka, India use lantana to produce roughly 50 different products. It is considered a “near match” to highly priced alternatives, cane and bamboo. Furniture made from lantana is resistant to sun, rain, and termite damage.
