| Will do some experiments next month when it is less wet on the projects we will be building on our main farm.
Stopped at several factories along our travel, whenever we come across slaes of bamboo or wooden stuff. The traditional methods to treat either freshly cut wood or bamboo is to soak them so that the insects living in them dies, then smoke them after suning them for a few days. But the lifespan of each itme depends on the what species the bamboo is, learnt that there are +2600 species of bamboo. As we all know, there are many different kinds of wood.
What I am thinking of is to follow their method, then either soak or paint in the Tung formula and dry them before we use them and see if their lifespan will be longer.
We bought some teak planks, not expensive as they only 8"wide x 8-10ft long, light coloured as they are from young trees. We found that bugs were always crawling on them so we put them into the pond for a few days and dry them out after a few days. When the wood were dried, the bugs were gone.
Will have to see what to do about the termite test Nawty mentioned as we don't have much termites on our red clay farm. | 
12-10-2009, 11:00 AM
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