How Do You Build A Tire Tube Bamboo Raft?
The nice thing about a bamboo and tire tube raft is that it is simple and redundant. Both the bamboo and the tubes are lightweight, fairly strong and buoyant. That means that if the weather gets rough or something happens to one of the inner tubes, your raft will stay afloat provided that it is well put-together and doesn’t have too much stuff on it. Get several truck inner tubes and inflate them. You don’t want plastic inner tube toys made for kids, but real, heavy-duty rubber inner tubes. You will need at least four tubes but can use more for a more stable raft. Build a frame out of thick bamboo poles. Use two long thick poles as supports on either side of the raft. Use two to four shorter ones as cross members. Lash them together with twine to make a square frame. Make a floor out of thinner bamboo poles. Lash them together with twine. Lash the inner tubes to the bottom of the frame with the nozzles facing up at an accessible angle. If you only have four tubes, lash them under the c
