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Bamboo Panama
hi everybody,
took along time,much to much to find this community here.iam down here in panama and working since a couple of years with the great local resource.its a shame on the same time how low generally the use is of course dont compare it all with colombia and right now costa rica.there are great carpenters of wood but bamboo has a very low reputation,considered as the resource of the poor man.if it is imported of course from china as floors etc the image change and gets acceptations.
but still the amount and the diversity of endemic as imported species is high and slowly beginnings of reforestations with mainly guadua angustifolia kunt.
this bamboo typ is the king about all of them,growing rate and amount in time and the mechanical and physical applications.
with this i started because needed a new crossbeam on my catamaran and the boatname is in fact bamboo.
so i harvested in the mountains a great piece of guadua(15cm dim)and integrated it as the front beam,were you install the front sails.in all the winds i took his effort,to be strong as steal.
this was the beginning of a love story up to today and still i cant get enough to play around and check out all the needs you can cover with the nicest grass of them all.
so step by step gonna introduce you more what happened and what is all possible in the tropics with the power of bamboo.....hasta luego Klaus
keep tuned for more photos
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29th October 2009, 04:56 PM
