I came across a Bamboo Cannon 🤩🤩 on my visit to the Village

Before I tell you all about the Bamboo Cannon I would like to talk about one of the main cultural events in Sri Lanka, it is the sinhala and tamil new year which falls on the month of April. as people all over the world celebrates the new year on January 1st, we Sri Lankans celebrates our New Year on 14th Of April (we celebrates January 1st too) we visit our relatives on these time of the year and we make traditional food items ?? like kawum (made using air fried - rice flour, sugar, salt and deep fried using coconut oil) , kokis(made using flour,salt, turmeric powder for the colour and deep fried using coconut oil) , milk rice (rice is cooked using coconut milk). and we attend on our religious activities on the auspicious time which all the sri lankans attend these activities on the same time.

this time we planned to celebrate the New Year with our relative who is in Hiniduma (a beautiful part in the down south area of Sri Lanka) . on this journey I had the chance to see and use the so called “Bamboo Cannon

Bamboo Cannon ??

bamboo cannon is a play item we make during awurudu season (new year) we use it to make a fire cracker like sound which is harmless and child friendly. a well grown bamboo stalk is used to make the cannon. there are empty holes inside bamboo stalk and there are separating walls in between these holes. a stalk with four five these holes is used to make a bamboo cannon.

a hole is made using a iron rod connecting the holes except the last wall and one hole from the out side of the last section.

we need to fix it as shown for its optimum performance. the end part where the mouth of the cannon to be in a higher position than the other side. we use kerosene as the igniting fuel. we fill the last section for about 10% with fuel through the hole at the and and try to light it using a flaming stick?. at first it takes some time to make the sound. while try to light we have to blow in to the hole. the air inside gets warmer and warmer since we are trying to ignite and blow air. so with in few minutes it starts to sound just like a big fire cracker.

kids with the help from their parents make this and play with it under the supervision of their parents since fire and fuel is used. but this is so safe than using fire crackers. this is not just a playing item this is used by farmers to scare away the crop eating animals on their farms. it is way more less polluting method than using fire crackers and effective too.

? Me Trying to Fire the Bamboo Cannon

The Sound of Bamboo Cannon Up Close

Hope you’ll like this one. stay tuned for more…!!! ???

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Wow. This is awesome @Amilamadushan , this is the first time I heard about Bamboo Canon.

Thank you for sharing this :+1:

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This is great, I will try this one @Amilamadushan .

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Let’s make one as a LG group thing @IlankovanT

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It’s really fun to try a one. it won’t be hard for you since you can find plenty of bamboo in kalutara area @AnuradhaP

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This Video shows how it works in slow motion @IlankovanT @AnuradhaP

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We will make @Amilamadushan :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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