Most species are useful bamboos with diameters of 3 to 10 cm, thick-walled or even solid on the lower culm, and lengths of 10 m and more.
To harvest the culms of these clumps, we need the help of one person: you, or another person accompanying you who will carry out the assisting work. We saw off all the culms at their bases OURSELVES, but all other work must be done by the person helping, e.g., cutting off the branches from the culms, and uploading the culms onto the person's pickup truck. This person can receive all harvested culms for free if they want them.
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| We cut the culms ourselves at their bases using a reciprocating saw (left). To pull a culm out of the bamboo clump, one person (male or female) is needed (center). You or your team must load all the desired culms (and also branches, if wanted) onto your vehicle (right). |
If not all cut culms were taken away but remain, they will be offered to other people, also free of charge, through advertisements in up to 40 Chiang Mai Facebook groups, on Sam's Facebook page, Dieter's Facebook page, and on Sam's blog, BAMBOO AVAILABLE FOR FREE (ไม้ไผ่ให้ฟรี), or this blog in Thai (automatic translation by GoogleTranslate). So, if you want to get cut bamboo culms that meet your specific requirements, we need your help harvesting them.
Culms of other species, especially those with a lower height, small diameter, and thin walls, can be cut by ourselves and are also offered to everyone free of charge. These culms are not usually very suitable for construction purposes but for making furniture, handicrafts, support of climbers such as beans, tomatoes, passion fruit, and splitting the culms for various purposes, such as fence strips or pickets, and woven products such as basketry.
We at Baan Sammi do not offer bamboo culms for sale, nor do we have anyone who will transport and deliver bamboo poles to any destination for a charge.
✅ If you want to contact or visit us, please read the “Contact Us” post which you can find at the very end of this blog.
✅ If you want to see which bamboo species culms can be harvested at Baan Sammi, which pre-cut bamboo poles are offered, which living bamboo plants can be dug out, which potted bamboo plants can be picked up, and which culm or branch cuttings can get for propagation, and which bamboo seeds are offered, then read the other posts of this blog.
✅ If you want to buy bamboo plants, you may get certain common species from Kham Thiang Market (ตลาดคำเที่ยง), special species from Boonthammee Bamboo Garden, Hang Dong, or from many Thai online plant nursery shops specialized in bamboo which publish their offers in Thai Facebook Groups in Thai script.
✅ If you want to identify a species of bamboo(!) using online apps such as picturethisai.com or Pl@ntNet, you should expect that 95–99% of the results for bamboo species and other grasses are incorrect.
