Bamboo

I think it probably depends on how close the ladder hooks are to one another. How about building a "table" across the top of the ladder hooks (with a 2-by-6 or 2-by-8) so the wood won't warp as much? To be quite honest, I don't have any experience aging wood--at least not on purpose. Surely, someone who really knows will reply/ Good luck with your "project"!

There is an abundance of information from google/bing et alia.

Most of which suggests storing vertically while drying.

I was afraid of that. Right now the bundle is standing up and leaning against a 2nd story railing but somehow that just doesn't look safe. Guess I could tie the top to the railing to keep it from toppling on somebody but it doesn't look very good out there. Oh well, guess I'll go tie it and think about it again tomorrow...

I suppose you want to keep the poles straight. Laying them down should be just as effective as tying them upright. When young, we use to cut cane poles for fishing. We simply laid them out and let them dry, nothing special. That seemed to work out just fine.

I suggest not allowing them to dry fast or they might split. The smaller tops will dry faster than the larger bottoms. Collect another batch of 4 and dry them in different scenarios. Not often does one have a chance to collect that large of bamboo.

There's a guy who has a good stand of bamboo near here, but his are 1.5" in diameter and maybe 20' tall. He has some that are dead, already dry among the stand. Might that be an option for you, if he has some similar?

Sonny

Le 09/05/2022 à 20:53, John McGaw a écrit :

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Thanks. I went out this morning and brought all of the stock into my garage and racked them with pretty decent support over most of the length. I don't need to have perfectly straight stock -- I doubt that I'll ever find a project requiring perfect 16-foot sticks. At least in the garage they should be free of insect problems and I can keep an eye on the drying process. I guess I should really get out my wood moisture meter and make some records to see how the process is going.

I harvested some bamboo a couple years ago and tried drying it in my garage. I did them in 2 ft, 4 ft, and 6 ft lengths. I laid them on coated metal racks I had hanging on the wall, keeping them separated from each other and anything else except the racks. Unfortunately almost all rotted (fungal?). Definitely trickier than drying other woods. Good luck. "Train your mind to test every thought, ideology, train of reasoning, and claim to truth."

IIRC one of the suggestions was to stand them up and down. Bamboo being rather damp is more likely to dry more quickly if gravity helps to drain the pieces through the bottom ends. And IIRC bamboo is more of a grass than common wood. Largest of the grass family.