Another before and after

[jamesp]

[gmitch067]

I find it interesting how the snow bows the trees down.

[jamesp]

Dec 12, 2017 10:22:46 GMT -5 gmitch067 said:

I find it interesting how the snow bows the trees down.

That is bamboo Glenn. It is resilient. It also blocks all access to my roads until it thaws.
You can shake the snow out of it if you want to make them rise. Or beat it with a broom stick. Lots of work.

[quartz]

We had a row of shrubs go down like that a few years ago, but they didn't pop back up. Took them out and put in 90ft. more of fence to keep the deer out. That bamboo is really springy stuff, pretty in the snow.

[jamesp]

Dec 12, 2017 15:14:42 GMT -5 quartz said:

We had a row of shrubs go down like that a few years ago, but they didn't pop back up. Took them out and put in 90ft. more of fence to keep the deer out. That bamboo is really springy stuff, pretty in the snow.

High powered Naval civil engineers write quite a book of using bamboo for concrete reinforcement.

www.romanconcrete.com/docs/bamboo1966/BambooReinforcedConcreteFeb1966.htm

Even my engineering college wrote a book on the subject.

That is one strong versatile material.

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I agree with larry. It's realpretty when laid down form the weight of snow.

[jamesp]

Dec 12, 2017 19:18:10 GMT -5 @shotgunner said:

I agree with larry. It's realpretty when laid down form the weight of snow.

The bamboo has added some dynamics to the property. The critters roost in it during warm weather.
Knowing what I know now I would have bulldozed 3 or 4 acres on the side of a hill and planted it in a big blob.