Bamboo?

Crashsector · Nov 15, 2011

I searched and wasn't able to come up with anything on the possibility of burning bamboo.

Anyone have any input? I took down about 12 stalks (each about 10 feet tall) in the yard and seeing as I'm always on the quest for free BTUs, the first thing I thought of is could I burn it in the stove.

I haven't had a chance to measure the MC, and it is green so it would have to season, but can it be done?

--Andy

maverick06 · Nov 15, 2011

BE CAREFUL!

Bamboo has "chambers" (or whatever the technical term is). These may pop/bang/explode when you burn it. Even tiny pieces. I knew this and burned a few tiny pieces in an outside fire. It sounded like a 12 gage going off each time the chamber let go.

If you split it, it will probably dry very fast and burn very fast, its a grass afterall and I know it can be deemed as a fire hazard when used as a building material in certain circumstances.

pyper · Nov 15, 2011

maverick06 said:
It sounded like a 12 gage going off each time the chamber let go.

That could be interesting --- in someone else's campfire...

JK

Lumber-Jack · Nov 15, 2011

Crashsector said:
I searched and wasn't able to come up with anything on the possibility of burning bamboo.

Anyone have any input? I took down about 12 stalks (each about 10 feet tall) in the yard and seeing as I'm always on the quest for free BTUs, the first thing I thought of is could I burn it in the stove.

I haven't had a chance to measure the MC, and it is green so it would have to season, but can it be done?

--Andy

How big in diameter are the stalks? People like to use timber size (and sometimes smaller) bamboo for making stuff. Probably worth more if you tried to sell it, although it does burn ok when dry. I've seen them using it for cooking fires in the Philippines, but even there they normaly use it for building stuff rather than fuel wood.

Crashsector · Nov 15, 2011

Carbon_Liberator said:
Crashsector said:

I searched and wasn't able to come up with anything on the possibility of burning bamboo.

Anyone have any input? I took down about 12 stalks (each about 10 feet tall) in the yard and seeing as I'm always on the quest for free BTUs, the first thing I thought of is could I burn it in the stove.

I haven't had a chance to measure the MC, and it is green so it would have to season, but can it be done?

--Andy

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How big in diameter are the stalks? People like to use timber size (and sometimes smaller) bamboo for making stuff. Probably worth more if you tried to sell it, although it does burn ok when dry. I've seen them using it for cooking fires in the Philippines, but even there they normaly use it for building stuff rather than fuel wood.

They're about 3 inches in diameter, but I don't think they'd be worth much seeing as it grows worse than a weed around here.

After going through some more reading on the matter, I think I'll be keeping this out of the stove for the time being. I'll probably have to end up hauling it to the dump.

--Andy

k9brain · Nov 15, 2011

Split and use as kindlin.

EatenByLimestone · Nov 15, 2011

I've burnt it, I didn't get any explosions. I also didn't notice any difference in heat coming from it. It must give out btus though.

Matt

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