Hello Excellent Ones,
One plant that I see everyday here in Hong Kong is bamboo. Here are some facts about it from the always, cough, cough reliable source Wikipedia. Bamboo is grass. It can grow a 100 cm a day, humans eat bamboo sprouts, Pandas eat tons, it makes up 99% of their diet, bamboo is used as medicine, paper, textile, furniture, pipe, water processing (cleaning), weapons, furniture, fishing rods and bicycles? Bamboo is the Chinese symbol of longevity.
It is also used as scaffolding. Light and sturdy you see it everywhere in front of buildings. While China seems to have a lot of fussy rules about everything they don't seem to have any standards for putting up bamboo scaffolding. The only safety equipment workers put on are helmets. Otherwise they wear no safety straps and as for footwear? I have seen one worker 50 feet up wearings socks and flip flops.
So enjoy the pictures of the bamboo scaffolding. Note the men high on top strapping bamboo together with black electrical tape. Pretty amazing. And kind of scary.
Till next time.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
One plant that I see everyday here in Hong Kong is bamboo. Here are some facts about it from the always, cough, cough reliable source Wikipedia. Bamboo is grass. It can grow a 100 cm a day, humans eat bamboo sprouts, Pandas eat tons, it makes up 99% of their diet, bamboo is used as medicine, paper, textile, furniture, pipe, water processing (cleaning), weapons, furniture, fishing rods and bicycles? Bamboo is the Chinese symbol of longevity.
It is also used as scaffolding. Light and sturdy you see it everywhere in front of buildings. While China seems to have a lot of fussy rules about everything they don't seem to have any standards for putting up bamboo scaffolding. The only safety equipment workers put on are helmets. Otherwise they wear no safety straps and as for footwear? I have seen one worker 50 feet up wearings socks and flip flops.
So enjoy the pictures of the bamboo scaffolding. Note the men high on top strapping bamboo together with black electrical tape. Pretty amazing. And kind of scary.
Till next time.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
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