| dc.description.abstract | In nural society life in Indonesia, bamboo holds an important role.
Bamboo is known by the society to have good properties, such as : strong culms,
straight, even, hard, easy-to-split, easy-to-shape and also easy-to-transport.
Other than that, bamboo is also relatively cheap compared to the other structural
material because bamboo is easy to the found around rural environment.
Bamboo has become a multifunction plant for society.
Such condition encourage the writer to create an adjustable system that is
used to rotate bamboo automatically on a bamboo splitter machine. It has a
simple form and easy to operate which makes is very suitable for low scale
industry. This machine use an automated system where the electrical components
is assembled to drive a DC motor which is connected to a mechanical device on
the chuck to rotate the bamboo.
The result shows that the average time of bamboo processing for each
section of bamboo splitting is 0,8 s where for every processing of one bamboo is
12 minutes with average number of splitted-bamboo is 7, 8, and 10 splittedbamboo.
For an hour operation of the machine, operator is able to procces 5
bamboos, which is 35 – 50 splitted-bamboo in total with the size of 30 mm. | en_US |
