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Started by Kcwoodbutcher, March 25, 2014, 10:00:22 PM

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Kcwoodbutcher

I had a call today from a company looking to dry 30 tons of sorghum cane billets. I had no idea what he was talking about. After talking to him a while I learned that this company is into green construction and is trying to replace the imported bamboo plywood with their product. I have nowhere near the capacity to handle this but told him I'd help in working out a schedule for drying it in my small kiln. The billets are only 1/2" thick but are very waxy thus hard to dry. Around here it's hard to find a large kiln that accepts outside product. Seems I'm the only kiln around for many miles that does any custom drying.
My job is to do everything nobody else felt like doing today

thecfarm

A niche market is coming your way. Good luck,sounds good. Will there be a learning curve to drying them??
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jueston

if my research is correct, they use that plant to make a sweet syrup similar to molasses. so i hope when you kiln dry it, it smells wonderful.  :D :)

perhaps you should look into how they dry bamboo...

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