Bamboo weapons

I'm pretty good at missconscrewing stuff

No, never in Finley unless you consider DOE. No I worked for the materials center prime contractor. Was even hired when the site was in production.

Someone got the idea up their ass that glass encapsulation was better than self contained shipping packs. Crap is a radon source (as you probably know) and thought that glass would provide a better diffusion barrier.

My experience with encapsulation was as a devils advocate. I musta been pretty good 'cause about 95 I was taken aside by an engineering VP and told that my two major projects were going to two FTE’s. I was given my choice of projects and went off to thorium packing (Now that, I put on my resume).

Got some K-65 tee shirts as I was involved with the heterogeneous sampling of 1 & 2 and tak’in the hardware off’n silo 3. Wrote the book on silo access in situ, that is before all the false starts of final remediation and the operation of radon removal (actually trapping).

As for remediation I was always kinda amazed by the structural paranoia, but if that was going to be one of the design criteria and they wanted to build bridges—I couldn’t argue with being that ‘crazy Eddy” safe, so it became done. But the crap in silos 1 and 2 was mud, nasty mud, but mud nevertheless. It needed to hydraulically mined, dewatered, mixed with cement and cast into class II packs. It did not need to be made into marbles.

One thing that I walked away from this project was that glass making is an art, not a science, and not everything can make good glass.

Rap

This is what modern bows look like:



None are made with bamboo. Nor to my knowledge were any significant bows made of bamboo in past ages. English longbows were made of yew and turko-mongol bows of laminated horn, sinew, and wood. Bamboo to my thinking would be good for making spears of but that would be about it.

Not all modern bows come with wheels, ya know.

Bamboo makes an arrow not bow.

hats off to ya rap. I was working for the Savannah R PM on a bunch of research projects including the gel and glass activities. Most of myactivity was in the Uranium Mill tailings UMTRA and Formerly utilized sites FUSRA. My mining geo background was primarily as a QA on Sandia, Livermore, ORENL, Brookhaven, and INEL.

I never got any tee shirts .Got a F**kin mug from Y-12 at Oak Ridge.

Back to Bamboo Weapons - it occurs to me the Yumi, the instrument of Japanese Kyudo, or Zen Archery, traditionally is made of laminated bamboo. Though modern composites are used to make most mass-market Yumi today, a concession to cost and convenience, real bamboo Yumi still are handcrafted, selling for big bucks, and genuine antique Yumi, with proven Samurai heritage, bring megabucks on the collector market, when they can be found. Stretching way back here, working from foggy memory, it seems to me the Yumi - the original, martial Yumi - are considered to be among the most powerful conventional bows ever designed, and were designated a 3-man bow, a 5-man bow, even a 7-man bow, for the number of men required to string one from its relaxed configuration. A Ya, or bamboo arrow, launched by a master Samurai archer reputedly could pass through a mounted rider's thigh, the horse, and exit through the rider's opposite thigh, at some considerable range.

And it was the English longbow (Welsh, actually), not the crossbow that brought the end to armored knights.

The bamboo bow I saw was in the modern self bow configuration, however.

I think the Japanese invented what we call caltrops using bamboo with long metal spikes . These were used to "slow down" mounted archers.

i think that bamboo is great. down at the beach where we live, there is a bamboo forest and i will make things out of it.