Sprayed the Twins today.
And about to finish an other one.
A buddy wants a 45# longbow with 180+fps @ 28" and 10gpp.
Should be no rocket science.

 

Quote from: wood carver 2 on April 17, 2021, 03:03:30 PM

Quote from: Roy from Pa on April 17, 2021, 02:11:28 PM
Might just take the 44 mag and shoot a round up through her:)

You're such a redneck. Make sure that you get it on video. 😁
Dave.

WATCH OUT, most of us are rednecks, I want to see it too


Nice B-JS

Quote from: Roy from Pa on April 17, 2021, 02:11:28 PM
Might just take the 44 mag and shoot a round up through her:)

Let Chris do the shootin. Better chance she'll put it down the middle.

You're probably right,  LOL.

And she loves to shoot, especially the AR15.

30 rounds oughta clean up the pith , unless you're holdin the boo for her, then there may be more pith...

I'm sure something would run out:)

I have used a bunch of mandrake, just take a hoe handle and knock the inner nodes out, they bust out very easily with little effort.

The patch I cut out of had trunks with wide nodes, unfortunately the land sold and the patch was bulldozed.

This is what I cut from the patch;

Thats nice looking Bamboo! How long does it take to get that big?

Thanks Eric..

I Googled "Life cycle of Mandrake timber bamboo" and this was one of the answers...

After the 60 day period of growth, the bamboo cane never grows in height or diameter again. Bamboo doesn't experience secondary growth like trees or most flora. It will put on new foliage every year, and a cane typically lives for 10 years. Bamboo is a member of the grass family.

Quote from: Flem on April 18, 2021, 09:17:26 AM
Thats nice looking Bamboo! How long does it take to get that big?

It grows fast... Up to a foot a day...  But I believe you got to let it season a year or two before you harvest...

Roy and Eric... Do you fire or heat treat the boo before you use it??

James Parker fire burns the belly Boo only

Thats amazing it grows that big in sixty days!!  Hell, we don't get tomatoes in sixty days around here.

Mark, have you watched James fire burn boo bellies? I was at his house outside Hickory, NC a few years ago when he was burning some. You would have thought that all that would be left after his rosebud propane torch burning there would be nothing left but ashes. Over the years James has made many, many boo back/belly bows using this technique with great success.

Quote from: Roy from Pa on April 17, 2021, 02:11:28 PM
Might just take the 44 mag and shoot a round up through her:)

Better living through (more) modern technology! I also want to see video of this. 

If Roy won't do it I can give it a try if someone will send me the bamboo. 

Quote from: Flem on April 18, 2021, 11:35:58 AM
Thats amazing it grows that big in sixty days!!  Hell, we don't get tomatoes in sixty days around here.

It's crazy how fast it grows, you can just about sit and watch it get taller. My climate is like yours, nothing grows fast around here.


Mark

I've never burnt it but I know woodcarver dave does.

Quote from: Pat B on April 18, 2021, 11:42:06 AM
Mark, have you watched James fire burn boo bellies? I was at his house outside Hickory, NC a few years ago when he was burning some. You would have thought that all that would be left after his rosebud propane torch burning there would be nothing left but ashes. Over the years James has made many, many boo back/belly bows using this technique with great success.

I have not Pat
Yes he's made plenty, he told me he had 8,000 bows logged( all kinds of bows), and wanted to get to 10,000 before
he would stop.
We have Kudzu vine in the south planted to stop erosion on ditches, it can grow 1 foot a day in HOT Humid weather

  Installed this yesterday...  Looking forward to a much cooler shop this summer...  Gonna put a cheapy 20" box fan up in there...   The hatch took me about a week to make being that I fiberglassed it and painted it with a good oil base...  Still gotta put hinges on it, a bar to control the height and maybe a screen to keep out wasps and such...
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