UJI KINERJA PROTOTIPE ALAT PENGIRAT BAMBU

Abstract

Bamboo is becoming versatile plant for rural communities for many utilities, such as house, bridge, ladder, Geribik, fence, handicraft, etc. Now, Indonesian bamboo craftsmen are still using a manually method to rod  bamboo. So that it is needed to make a tool that enhances efficiency and quality of bamboo strip as raw material to produce bamboo-made handicrafts. This study aimed to make a tool that enhances efficiency and quality of bamboo strip as raw material to produce bamboo-made handicrafts.The steps are as follows one bar of bamboo was cutted with 0.5 m length and 0,15 width. Then, the outer skin was peeled before it was sliced into some strips. Next, the strips of bamboo was feeded to a channel and booster unit in a spinned condition. Each tests were repeated 3 times i.e. 5 samples in wet condition and 5 samples in dry condition. Part of tested bamboo was classified into 3 types i.e. culm, middle and end. Then,  percentage of rodent bamboo, and the period of split process.The performance test of splitter bamboo tool for wet bamboo found that the percentage of bamboo culm is 33,33 %, middle 20 % and end 26,67%. Based on the percentage, Culm has bigger percentage than others due to the culm has a more suitable thickness with the knife from the splitter tool. Whereas the dry of the sample found that the percentage of culm, middle is similar about 33,33 % and the end part of the bamboo has percentage around 20 %. This condition exists since the dry sample of the bamboo has a more stabilized texture than the wet one due to still high water content.

Keywords: Testing, splitter, bamboo