Features:

  • Quickly hooks up to any refillable propane tank (20lb cylinder works great)
  • Comes with a hand-tighten tank fitting
  • This torch kit has plenty powerful and generates heat up to 2,000-degrees F
  • The Weed Dragon has received the National Home Gardening Club Member Tested Seal-of-Approval.
  • Made in the U.S.A.
To avoid chemicals this was a viable alternative.

We have a lot of weeds on our few acres here in the high desert and many are on the noxious list and close to our gardens, bushes and fruit trees so chemicals just isn’t an option. I strapped a propane tank to a small hand-truck and now I can eliminate weeds after only a few burns and it’s also good for the walkways in our gardens but it’s surprising how resilient some of these weeds are and how deep their root systems can go even in the high desert. At about 50-bucks this was money well spent and now my neighbors are also using a similar device. This does crank out some heat and I’ve even used it to melt ice in my driveway. We have irrigation canals that have to be burned off every spring and this makes quick work of it and the weeds we now burn were almost impossible to pull by hand. We also have the wild form of rye grass here that is impossible to keep up with manually so burning it has been a real pleasure rather than the old hands and knees method. I have a smaller version of this that works on the 1-pound cylinder and that’s great for tight areas.

Hank Hill would love this thing

Yup. I don't know why I bought this. I don't know what I was looking for when I found it. But I'm glad I have it. I startled my in-laws as they sat around the patio when I whipped my new toy out of the shed and started blasting weeds. It's exactly as described--a terrifying flame torch with a 10-ft hose that hooks up to a regular gas grill's propane tank. With the recent warm weather, we've got various weeds coming up through the river rocks, bricks, and limestone pavers around our patio. In a few minutes with this weed dragon, I can have the whole thing looking clean and neat. The fact that it's more fun than spraying herbicide is just a bonus. Pro tip: don't use it barefoot and then absentmindedly walk over the rocks that you just de-weeded. Pro tip 2: don't use where weeds are mixed among dry leaves on a windy day. I've found that it does leave a little film of soot on the rocks, but I expect that will wash away with a rain. It also burned all the paint off the end of the wand with the first use, but I'm not exactly worried about the aesthetics of my propane torch. I do wish the wand were about 6 inches longer. I'm 5' 10" and I have to hunch over a bit to blast the ground-hugging weeds. It's easy to light, easy to adjust the flame, easy to use, easy to extinguish. Even if you don't need one, it's just fun to have one. You'll figure out something to do with it. I look forward to a chilly night when I can expedite the fire pit lighting process by about half an hour. Oh, man. I am going to have a field day with the next wasp nest I find. Anyway. I'm a happy customer. The small weeds I burned a couple of months ago have not grown back. Granted, it's been Winter, but my patio looks great. UPDATE: Several months and uses later, and it still looks and works like new (save the scorched emitter end of the wand). I still like using it. This weekend, I improved the appearance of my yard immensely by just burning a ton of weeds along the rocky border with the street. My neighbor came over to see what I was doing, and he left to go order a Weed Dragon for himself. I used it for a couple of hours yesterday (it can be slow work, compared to aim-and-spray herbicides), and it did a fantastic job without using much gas. My neighbor could appreciate the lack of poisonous chemicals, since we live alongside a greenbelt creek and above an aquifer recharge zone. I still wish it was a little longer; I think at this length, it was just designed more for quickly clearing dry farmland without the need to apply flame directly to the ground. But yeah, I dig the product and I still recommend it.

Kills vegetation almost instantly!

Great torch that can clear LOTS of area in seconds. It just takes a brief wave of the torch over the problem area and the weed will be laying limp on the ground in a couple of hours. If you spray the ground before hand, you can kill the roots and seeds by creating steam. It's a simple tool and a little pricey but it really works. Every homeowner should have one. This burns hot!

Does the job well

I was not sure what to expect when I made this purchase. With that said, I have been delighted with the ease of use and with the fact I do not need to use chemicals on my gravel driveway any longer. I had an old dolly and found carting around a 20 gallon propane tank no problem. I was also pleasantly surprised by how little propane this product used. That is not to say it does not burn much propane, only that it burns less than I thought it would after reading reviews.

Not 100% weed free but works wonderful

Hands down a great product. We have (hopefully "had") weed problems in our backyard and this product really help maintain them. This is what we learned while using this product. * You can use it on dried up weeds or green weeds. Green weeds obviously create more smoke and took a lot longer to wilt using the weed dragon thus, using more propane. We went through MANY propane tanks before finishing out back yard ( We live in So. California and our backyard isnt huge but the largest on our block with a large side yard and decent sized backyard) Either way, it got the job done. *We found the following process to make using this 100% successful. #1Mow the area you are about to torch to get it as low as possible. #2 Rake up any underlying dead grass/weeds that may be covering the ground. If you do not do this, you will only be torching the top layer and will HAVE to retorch the area for it to be successful. After torching, I found raking again gave us the most amount of success so that we can see what may still be alive and what is for sure dead so we can go retouch areas. * DO NOT torch next to plants you want to live! We have ivy growing on our fence of the backyard. Even torching next to the ivy caused them to wilt and dry up. The heat along will kill the plants not necessarily actually torching the plant. Its been about a month and the ivy is still brown. * You cannot torch for a LONG period of time, nothing to do with the weed dragon, its the propane tank freezes over when it gets low. You will need to take breaks while it defrosts. * This product is VERY loud. Sounds like a Jet airplane or even a helicopter at times. Im sure our neighbors just love us by now. *We had the police called on us for using this product in Southern California. Luckily nothing happened, he took a report and said we technically need a permit in our city. We showed him how it worked that we weren't creating a fire so went on his merry way. With knowing the above, this product works wonderful however, the weeds still grow back. At least in our case. Its been about a month and we are starting the see new growth pop up here and there. I would still highly recommend.

With whistling, hissing, flame throwing glee the finger vanquished all foes...

So I asked unto the shopping lord Amazon. "Alexa, please grant my wish to eradicate the unstoppable nemesis crabgrass in my 1/4 acre rock garden which has been a plague on my back and chemical supply for years". Alexa in all her glory bequethed onto my humble being the actual finger of death incarnate. With whistling, hissing, flame throwing glee the finger vanquished all foes (along with a few pine shrubs who were accidental victims of the wrath) in a fiery blaze of glory. In what felt like an instant, hours upon hours of weed pulling work was eradicated as I laughed manically and my neighbors ran inside in fear. Thank you my dear Alexa for granting me this wish and providing me with the funnest (and admitedly most frightening) tool in my arsenal of weed destroying troopers. I have roasted an entire bag of marshmellows in your honor, even though it only took 5 seconds my sacrifice was genuine.

Here's how to use it effectively...

Worth the money, and time. But you have to know how to use it. The flame doesn't need to be full blast, you'll just be wasting propane. A 20# tank should last 3-4 hours. Get a decent flame blowing and wave the end just above the tops of the weeds, long enough to see the leaves wilt slightly, they'll turn slightly darker color. This causes the water in the cells to boil and burst the cell structure, killing the leaf feeding system. This takes only about 1/10th of a second of heat to accomplish. The grass/leaves don't need to brown or burn, again this just wastes propane. Within hours they'll brown out by themselves. Now, you haven't killed the root, which has X amount of stored energy in it. So after winning your first fiery battle, the weed will fight back, using its reserves to sprout more leaves. Give it 2-3 weeks to try and rebuild, then go back and flame that new growth down again by the same process. Typically the first flaming kills the annual weeds, but the tougher perennial weeds could take 2-4 times before the root energy is depleted and they're DEAD dead. Then it's just light maintenance for any new seed that blows in from your neighbors yard. Done properly, this is just as effective, cheaper, safer and WAY more satisfying than spraying weed killer.

Best weeding tool I ever had

I can only hope that this tool lasts a long time but, I love it! I have a gravel driveway that has been a nightmare to keep weeded. This flame thrower weed dragon did the entire driveway (200 feet long) in one day. Fun and easy to use with no pulling, bending, poisoning. No back pain either. I don't know why I never thought of this before but I'm grateful to have it now.

Exceeded my Expectations!

I mainly bought this because I was tired of buying expensive chemicals and mixing them. Getting them on my skin and putting them into my soils. I ended up buying the (green) Weed Dragon and I'm glad I did! I don't live on a farm or own a large piece of property so the 100,000-BTU Torch kit is more than sufficient for my needs as a typical home owner. I took pictures immediately after I torched them and then 3 days later. The proof is in the pudding as they say! From my experience, the chemicals would take a week or more before you started seeing any results. Notice the weeds are still green after I finished them with fire. There's no need to "incinerate" the weed. It just wastes fuel and increases the chances of catching something on fire. It was extremely dry when I did this so I carried around a watering can to put out any hot spots along the way. (And I needed it). Just a second or two on the weed is plenty to destroy the cellular layer that weeds use to get food and oxygen through the air and sun... eventually killing the weed in short order. My weeds were pretty out of control so it took me about 45 minutes to finish this first go around. Moving forward it will probably take half the time with consistent maintenance. I estimate it will cost me about $5.00 a season in propane to keep the weeds in check. Just an estimate. I also bought the red trigger handle to have more control over the flame which I'm also happy with. With this model, there is a needle valve you have to adjust and it's basically going full blast the whole time your using it. The trigger system will save you fuel by controlling the intensity of the flame. The box says it will pay itself off in fuel savings and I believe it. But that's another review I suppose. Just wanted to give you a heads up so you know what your getting. The Weed Dragon isn't the cheapest vapor torch on Amazon, but based on other reviews I've read and videos I've watched... People who went with the cheaper brands had problems with them staying lit and other things that were displeasing. On top of that... The Weed Dragon is made in America! I would definitely buy this product again or for a friend. Getting rid of the chemicals is good for the environment and using the flame thrower makes killing weeds fun!

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