Surely the only way is to manually cut each culm and then feed it into a very powerful mulcher/chipper.The only issue may be the long fibres getting clogged.If so then maybe cutting the culms into shorter segments first?How do they harvest and process rattan?Whatever machine can cope with that can surely deal with bamboo?I'd be interested to know the answer.Sent from my Samsung GALAXY S5
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From: "ANTONIO FERNANDO TOMBOLATO parinam2@yahoo.com.br [bamboo-plantations]" <bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 13/04/2016 4:42 pm (GMT+10:00)
To: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [bamboo-plantations] Bamboo Biomass Mechanized Harvester / Chipper
Read,
As far as I know theJoao Santos Group still harvest the B. vulgaris mannually.
They cut down completely all the clump every 24-30 months of growth.
They are also looking for a harvesting machine that can be suitable for bamboo, but up to now there is no machine that performed in a acceptable way.
If someone has more information about...
Fernando
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Em qua, 13/4/16, rflusser@gmail.com [bamboo-plantations] <bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com> escreveu:
Assunto: [bamboo-plantations] Bamboo Biomass Mechanized Harvester / Chipper
Para: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Data: Quarta-feira, 13 de Abril de 2016, 3:34
My name is Read Flusser and I've been
following this group for a while -- what a great resource!
Thank you for all the great posts by experienced
growers.
I have been
researching commercial biomass production from bamboo for
advanced biofuels at Columbia University in New York for
over a year and it seems that the biggest challenge to
scaled operations in higher wage areas is the mechanized
harvesting equipment. The Brazilian companies working with
bambusa vulgaris are supposedly harvesting
mechanically according
to a post by Raphael Moras de Vasconcellos-- does anyone happen to know
what they were using for this? Or a contact of someone who
might know these details? (Raphael's email bounced
back)
Thank you for any
information you can provide!
Best,Read
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