Vol. 04: Raft Construction 01 - 31 August 2010

Chapter 01 : Introduction For This Week.


               For this week, we started our raft construction work. We began the construction for the base part first, which was we used all our previously cut bamboos to make the base. 


Chapter 02 ; Construction Of The Base ( the beginning ) 

                                   

This picture is showing how we cut our bamboo....... which is by, one person is pulling on one end and the other person is pushing at the other end..... by doing this, the amount of energy needed can be reduced significantly... not only that... the amount of time needed to cut is also too short.... an average it only took us around 1 minute to cut a bamboo... 

in this picture, we could see that the cut bamboos were roughly not the same length..... So we decided to cut the end part to make more same in length...

this picture is showing how we are cutting the end part.....

The picture above is showing how we measured all the cut bamboos in the same length.

Mean while this picture is showing, the next step we did... which were cutting the end part of the bamboo... this is to reduce the diameter of the bamboos, to make sure that the end part fits perfectly with the 45 angle elbow pipe fitting....

The picture above shows clearly the fitting of the pvc elbow and how we were cutting the bamboo end.

in this picture, we could see that how the bamboos look like after it is fitted with the pvc connector.

In this picture, nabil 

This photo above is showing the scale and proportion of the base of the raft with us and how big it would in the end.

Chapter 03:  New Materials Arrivals.

 

The pictures above are showing the 45 angle elbow p.v.c. pipe fitting which we used to make the connection between two bamboos.

Mean while this picture is showing the 3 used tire tubes which we will use in this project.
The tubes, we got it for the parking area at the boy hostel at bakti...


Chapter 04: More Bamboos Needed

The two photos above shows that we are hunting for new and extra bamboo because the original bamboos we got, were inadequate.... One of the reason why we didn't cut more bamboos earlier is because we do not want to waste the resources. Furthermore, we feel if there is a need to cut a bamboo.... than we cut... if not... we tried to save the trees...




Chapter 05: Extra Time..... Help Other Team

Because our team finished the job early for this we.... and we had a few extra time...... we decided to help our neighboring team..... which is Shafiq's team.....  we decided to lend in some hand to shafiq's team because on the previous week, shafiq helped us during the bamboo hunting week.... so we feel it is our time to help him back... 

to be continued next update 7 September 2010