Flame Weed Killer

My garden was thick with weeds and brambles so we hired a flame thrower from hss and nuked the lot and now after some hard work it looks like this
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BigBoy said:
My garden was thick with weeds and brambles so we hired a flame thrower from hss and nuked the lot and now after some hard work it looks like this
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/braindamaged/garden/image007.jpg
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Did you just flame everything when it was still living, or did you have to kill it first by using a weed killer (as suggested above), before char-grilling it ;)
 
just flame on and let it rip we didnt kill everything as there were some salvageable plants (the ones you can see in the pic) but most things. Its more like having a blowtorch than a flame thrower (blue flame)
 
I'd agree you need to get a decent petrol-strimmer or power-scythe and take it all down. I’m not sure, if it's 1m high, that you'd be able to have much effect with a rotovator - surely that'd leave you trying to dig under a metre of plant matter? If you strim it down and then take a lawnmower too it you’ll not have any real need for fire or chemicals, which would surely leave a lot of dead vegetation to clear away in either case?
 
It may be overkill, but we generally spend £200 every other year employing someone to clear it all out... and then it just grows back again.

The way I am planning - it will only take a few days and around £100...

May even go and spray the whole place again with the sodium stuff after the burning, just for good luck (that stuff is pretty cheap - like £2.20 per kg from Wilkinsons).
 
Pour Petrol on them, It will kill them dead :cool:

Edit:Warning: Do not light the petrol because they need to drink it, There is no fire in the petrol feeding of the plants
 
Zip said:
Pour Petrol on them, It will kill them dead :cool:

Edit:Warning: Do not light the petrol because they need to drink it, There is no fire in the petrol feeding of the plants
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I take it you didn't look at the pictures which show the size of the garden?
 
Danger Phoenix said:
I've got nothing against foxes in general, but these ones should die! They go and kill birds and leave their remains... raid our bin and make weird screaming noises in the middle of the night (it actually sounds like someone is being murdered)!
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We get the same here in a very urban area of Leicester.. it really does sound like the high pitched squeeling of a woman being murdered! :eek:
 
Usel said:
I take it you didn't look at the pictures which show the size of the garden?
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Yeah i saw them, they shouldnt need an absolute soaking in the stuf though :)
 
I think I'll give the petrol a miss - I'm hoping what I plan to do will prevent anything growing there for at least 1 year! :D

/Edit: If the flame gun uses 5.9kg of propane per hour... how many hours worth do you think I will need?
 
lead at 1000fps+ works well on foxes failing that a lurcher but that’s not quite as quick (lurcher has to be the uncontrollable variety for it to be legal). ;)
 
shimy182 said:
ok. thanks for the long post :D i will be going to the open day soonish.
i wish to do automotive engineer or motorsport engineering there, apparently taught in Knights Park / Roehampton Vale.
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Roe vale isn't the best of places tbh, though it's better than Knights Park - at least there's an Asda's by Roe Vale... see if they'll let you on the flight sim at roe vale :) . Oh and be realllly annoying to the person giving the tour - ask lots of questions - it's just a student so it wont effect anything and they don't get paid much for doing it - so the less people that want to do it again the more they might pay next year...

fini
 
use the sodium chlorate to burn 'fini' into the garden, but DO NOT burn anything after 'fini' into it.

fini
 
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