Bamboo: pruning and how to prevent proliferation?

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

[Christophe]

The DSG gearbox oil drain heats up terribly in a multi-fuel burner...

Oh, I knew you were a used oil smuggler!!!

[Macro]

No smuggling. Taxes are paid. and what's more, it's short-circuit recycling: emptied upstairs, burned in the basement...

[Christophe]

No smuggling. Taxes are paid. and what's more, it's short-circuit recycling: emptied upstairs, burned in the basement...

Yeah yeah to others...I'm not sure if there is TICPE on used oil...

[Macro]

https://www.airchaud-diffusion.fr/catal ... ible-1458/

[Macro]

FYI... DSG oil is the best price I could find, €17 per liter... Just the VAT, you're above the TICPE for a liter of fuel...

[gildas]

https://www.airchaud-diffusion.fr/catalogue/chauffage-fixe-343/chauffage-atelier-fixe-polycombustible-1458/

The fumes from the chimneys of these boilers must be smelly, I hope there is a filter or other pollution control system...

[Macro]

No filter. The smell and opacity of the fumes are similar to fuel use. Except when you burn frying oil where there is a characteristic scorching smell (you still have to have "the nose") we are not talking about the Cubillot of the garages of the 80s which smoked like an old oilman... Personally with my Kroll and its ceramic nozzle the inside of my boiler looks more like that of an oven after pyrolysis than that of a fuel stove... Especially with hydraulic oils... but unfortunately I do not have enough resources to heat with that all winter...

[Robob]

I have quite a few bamboos at home: big ones that grow to 5m and dwarf ones that go between 1.5 and 2.5m. I have had them for over 30 years in 2 different gardens.

The solution to contain them:

The anti-rhizome barrier: for large ones (5m and more), you need a barrier of 1m (depth) and 2mm thick mini, which costs an arm and a leg. And of course you have to dig at least 70cm, leaving at least 10cm of excess. You have to close the junction where the barrier meets.
After a few years, you have to watch the rhizomes which spring up and sometimes dive back on the other side of the barrier or find a passage in a poorly closed junction.

For so-called dwarf bamboos (1.5m high and 5mm in diameter), a 1mm barrier is enough, however they manage to pierce the honeycomb waterproofing barriers that are placed on the foundations. We can go down to 40cm, that's enough: they trace 10-15cm underground.

I read a solution which consists of making a trench about 50cm deep by 20cm wide, all around the bamboo clump, and monitoring it several times a year and particularly in the spring: we castrate and pull out all the rhizomes which pass.

No bamboo without a barrier near a stone wall: it will go through. No big bamboo near a tarmac, it will go through. If it is concrete and there is a single crack, they will find it.

Some say that you just have to cut them down to prevent them from invading: a very bad idea. Even dwarf bamboos can grow up to 4m underground without coming out.

Otherwise it's beautiful.

[Flytox]

I go to a friend's house and see 5 or 6 cast iron bathtubs in his garden!!!
- What the hell are you doing with all these bathtubs? Do you want to water a whole herd of cows or what?
- No, it's my anti-proliferation protection for the bamboos that I'm going to plant...inside!