I saw a propane weed torch in one of my catalogs, and now i can't find it.
Has anyone recently come across it?? It's around 50$

thanks !!in advance
jfrost

http://www.goatheads.com/weedburner.html
A google search for "propane weed torch" brought this up right on top at
$34.95. There were pleanty more to select from.

Tom J

"jfrost" wrote in message
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I saw a propane weed torch in one of my catalogs, and now i can't find it.
Has anyone recently come across it?? It's around 50$

thanks !!in advance
jfrost

Tom J wrote:

http://www.goatheads.com/weedburner.html
A google search for "propane weed torch" brought this up right on top at
$34.95. There were pleanty more to select from.

Tom J

"jfrost" wrote in message
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I saw a propane weed torch in one of my catalogs, and now i can't find it.
Has anyone recently come across it?? It's around 50$





Flame engineering Co also makes torches (http://www.flameeng.com/). The
ones I use are more expensive (seems to me they were around $70 several
years ago) but they're industrial strength torches rather than the
little dinky homeowner style. They make both vapor and liquid propane
torches. I use mine with a 20 lb tank of propane on a backpack.

The one in the link supplied by Tom J is lighter than mine, but for
limited work that's probably just fine. I use mine on a farm with 250'
rows, so it gets a lot of use. I found that the handle with the torch
(mine is longer than the picture on the link) was really tiring on my
wrist, so I added a counterbalance. The liquid propane torch works
better for large scale operations, since the tank will freeze up after
15-20 minutes of use with a vapor torch.

Note that when killing weeds, it's not necessary to toast the weed to a
crisp. All you have to do is to heat it enough to boil the fluids in the
leaves of the weed. That kills the weed, although it sometimes doesn't
realize it for 5 minutes or so. If you want to toast the weed for the
psychological boost it might give you, go ahead, but you're wasting
fuel.

The weed burner doesn't work on grasses. The growing point of grass is
underground, so the burner just kills the leaves, and more will sprout
later. You can probably discourage grass if you hit it twice a week, but
it takes work to do it. The burner works best on broadleaf weeds.

Also, the burner doesn't work well on large weeds. If the weeds get
larger than 2-3" high, or the second true leaf stage, it takes too much
fuel to kill them. You're better off chopping them with a hoe at that
point.