My neighbor bought me a weed torch & 2 fuel cylinders for helping him remove some nuisance weeds. I used it tonight for the first time ever and it's amazing. I wish I would have had it a year ago, or more. I guess I won't know for sure that it was effective right now but it sure seemed to work great tonight. I was hitting garlic mustard & some other annoying weeds. 'Big time saver vs some manual methods. Also, no herbicides to deal with. Many upsides I think, we'll see. I carried an extra cylinder & small fire extinguisher in a backpack, but the tank lasted all evening.



We got it for garlic mustard but I could see it working on other weeds.

I was thinking a little more along the lines of this
https://www.harborfreight.com/propa...v4xMZz5tg5BphUS4vb_xZfF3RSkaAprkEALw_wcB

but yours is a lot easier to carry , this one needs more like a 20# cylinder on a back pack frame.

I had one of these , it worked fairly well , maybe a little over kill on some things.

I thought about 1 like that, but decided against it at least for now.

We use those to burn the spines off prickly pear cactus for the cattle to eat in winter. Cows get tune in on that roaring sound and come a running.

Pear burner
I have seen them in south Texas with a 50' hose and a 250gal propane tank on wheels behind a tractor for that purpose

I have one of the bigger ones, runs on a 20# bottle with about 6' of hose
Can get a brush pile roaring in short order or fire up the BBQ pit

I have the one from Harbor freight that green posted. Works good with a 20lb tank stuff the hot end in wet brush pile. When I was a kid we used one to burn weeds under electric fence. Now that Im some what crippled I usually use my 10lb tank. Way more mobile. My son is a firefighter instructor. He borrowed mine then bought his own. Uses it to light fires in rooms when their doing student interior burn classes.

Either size is handy for lighting camp fire if you're in a hurry.

Mac

"Never Forget Which Way Is Up!"

Mine takes a 20lb tank has longer probably 6' and the handle is longer than the one linked. Less moving around and more reach.

All my roofing torches had 50 ft hoses.

I have the one Pete posted. I guarantee the first time that you light it you will be smiling from ear to ear. They are impressive.

the end of mine was the hose isn't particularly UV resistant and it cracked in like 2 years and started leaking.

a 25 foot hose of good rubber would have been a good upgrade set the tank down and work for a bit then pick it up

I went away from weed burning in the garden and fence and never got a second one.

also not a bad idea to keep a hose handy , I might have lit part of my garden on fire once

Harbor Freight had a major recall on theirs a few years ago, might want to double check on them before committing.

Just remember that some rocks explode when heated with a weed burner. I found out that exploding rocks are cool to watch, but hurt when they hit your face and leave bruises and burns that last for weeks.

Keith

Cool

I like the idea of the longer reach one's that some of you mention-- Less chance for a sore back.


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I have the HF one thats 340,000 BTU. When I pulled the trigger for the first time, yes I had a big smile. They advertise 1 million + btu on Amazon. If that’s a real number, thatd be impressive to see how fast weeds shriveled up from those.

Yes they are

I have the big one and I burn entire surface of my 6,000 square foot garden to kill weed seeds. It’s super fast the small torch would be hopeless for that.

Do you burn over bare earth to kill the seeds, or over the weeds once they are growing?

How often do you have to do it?

Do you lose any fertility?

I would like to find an easier way to keep weeds down.

Keith

I like torches better than Roundup.