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Red Dragon VT 2-23 C Weed Dragon 100, 000-BTU Propane Vapor Torch Kit
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Fully assembled and ready to go, the Flame Engineering 100,000 BTU Weed Dragon garden torch kit helps eliminate the risk of chemical residue and run-off, making your lawn and garden safe for your family and pets. Designed for home owners or landscapers who don't need the power of a farm torch, this handy tool helps keep your lawn and garden weed free and reduces the need for mowing or chemical use in hard-to-reach places. In fact, the 23-inch handle length and 10-foot gas hose make it a snap to reach every corner of your yard or garden so you can aim precisely and get optimum coverage exactly where you need it. CSA International Certified and easy to operate, the Weed Dragon connects to a standard propane cylinder and has a two-inch bell.
Tony G.
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2018
This thing is exactly what I was looking for and I love it. It's light, easy to use and works very well. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra money and buy the tank dolly too. It's made for a propane tank, light weight, low to the ground and has a notch to store the hot torch once you turn it off. I have a 2 acre lot with about half of it fenced so I needed to drag this through some brush and debris. I appreciate the solid tires (no air) on the dolly as well because a regular hand truck would have flat tires by now. The torch itself is easy enough to operate with one hand, even for an old guy like me. It is light, well balanced and I just roll the gas knob with the thumb of the hand I am holding the torch with to raise or lower the flame. I should mention, I will be using this primarily for burning dead weeds, as well as some live ones. I am 5'11" and I find the wand to be a couple inches short for me. In other words, I have to bend over a little to get the flame close to what I am burning but this isn't a significant problem, just an observation. I used it for about an hour and a half on a 20 gallon tank that I thought was about empty before I started and I never ran out of gas, so I would guess I can get at least 5 hours out of a full tank. I thought the price was also very reasonable and I am very satisfied.
A. Goldberg
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016
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.
K. Rochester
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2013
I have a couple hundred feet of gravel drive that goes to a garage behind my house that does not get driven on enough to keep weeds and grass from growing on it. I also have several "low maintenance" garden beds that are filled with rocks and a few plants and shrubs. They also get weeds that grow between the rocks. This tool has been very effective at solving both problems, and is oddly satisfying and enjoyable to use.Unlike the instructions, which only ask you to hold the flame on the weed long enough for it to start to wilt basically, or turn purple, I was not happy with that outcome since I wanted the weeds GONE not just dead. So I stood and worked a few square feet at a time completely burning out the weeds until they were ash. I was able to do around 150' of 10' wide gravel drive with a 25# propane tank, which costs $12 locally currently to be refilled. I am happy with that price per sq. ft., and it does not send any polluting chemicals down into my well water like RoundUp or other similar chemical killers, which I really like. And the end result was a completely vegetation free gravel drive after I was done, not several days or weeks later.I treated my driveway and beds for the first time in late spring, and the weeds stayed gone almost the entire summer, and I did it a second time just recently going into fall which should keep everything looking great over the winter and into next spring when I anticipate needing to do it again on the same twice yearly routine.As a side note, I did not feel comfortable using this any closer than about 2 feet away from my vinyl sided house for fear of melting the siding. At 2 feet I have had no problems. I have used it just about right up to my decking in short bursts with no problems either. Looking forward to trying it out this winter for melting ice off of my driveway too.It should go without saying, but after reading a few of the reviews on this I suppose it bears noting that this is a FLAME THROWER, not a precision tool. You need to use care and exercise good judgement in what it can safely be pointed at. Also realize that it radiates a lot of heat, and may kill plants you did not intend to kill if they are too close to the heat. There are other torches with smaller flames that may be better suited to some gardening uses. Think of this more as a wide area weed killer, which suits my purposes perfectly.
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