Sound sawing machine breaks a morning in Teupin Boat Village, Arongan Lam Balek District, West Aceh District, Aceh Province.
The machine saw blade is not to split the wood instead of splitting the scrap plastic drum as raw material of fishing boat making. The drum is usually used for oil shelters, water or floats.
The utilization innovation of used drums for the manufacture of boats originating from the idea of three craftsmen, Zulkifli Amin, M Jamin and Syafari Moses are overwhelming and difficulty looking for wood for boat making so they are moved to take advantage of used drums as the base material of fishing boats.
People use the used plastic drum boat when looking for fish in the village area of Arongan, Arongan Lambalek District, West Aceh, Aceh.
Perajin splits scrap plastic drum using machine saw when boat making process in Teupin Boat Village, Lambalek District, West Aceh Regency.
Although the four times fail because the former drum boat they make less dynamic in sailing on the river but they do not break the spirit and continue trying to fix the flaws to perfect like the worth of artificial boats from ordinary wood.
With simple versatile equipment such as chainsaw machine, wood saw, hammer, traditional woodworking tools, thighs, screwdrivers, soldering, parangs and thighs they are able to process a round used plastic drum into a boat.
Syafari Mos explains that the actual manufacturing way is almost the same as the manufacture of ordinary boats but the raw material is only distinguishing, and the assembly process is rather complicated ranging from the process of tinglingering and cutting of plastic drums, connecting drum pieces by using soldering to the process of moisting drum scars by using parangs and traditional wood ketam tools to boat look neat.
The tooling tool used in the manufacturing of scrap plastic drum boat.
Perajin solders the former plastic drum connection when making fishing boat in Teupin Boat Village.
Various sizes and models of used plastic drum boats can be customized depending on the demand and desire of buyers.
Since the beginning of 2019 until now they already produce hundreds of used drum boat units sold at Rp 2.5 million to Rp 5.5 million per unit depends on the size and difficulty rate in manufacturing.
They managed to make the difficulty of the wood raw material into the spur to innovate utilizing the used materials and processing them into Rupiah.
Perajin fires the former plastic drum section by using parangs when making fishing boats in Teupin Boat Village, Arongan Lambalek District, West Aceh.
Perajin fires the scrap plastic drum section by using parang.
Photo and Text : Syifa Yulinas
Author : Fanny Octavianus
Perajin completes the process of making fishing boats made basic plastic drums used in Teupin Boat Village.
The craft cuts scrap plastic drum parts when making fishing boats in Teupin Boat Village.
The number of crafts completed the process of making fishing boats made by plastic drums used in Teupin Boat Village, Arongan Lambalek District, West Aceh, Aceh.
