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- From: "Jeffery Blake" <echoecho AT bedford.heartland.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Backpack flamers
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:44:24 -0600
I probably can't help you much with the kind of flamer. It is an older one
just like the one another fella here was talking about. Heavy-duty. It
will kick out some heat. Sounds like a jet engine. I've used it to thaw
out frozen hydrants etc. I think you could make one with a regulator, a
chunk of flexible tubing. a 2-3 foot chunk of 3/8"pipe with a nozzle on it.
The nozzle is covered with a 2 or 3 inch wide pipe hood. Mine used a 20#
bottle also and I carried it in one hand, next year i'll fix up either a
hand cart or a back pack. My plastic is on 5' centers. I had 6 rows about
300' each. Don't get to close to the plastic. I had mostly waterhemp,
velvetleaf, yellow foxtail, some purslane (which the flamer won't kill) a
few burrs. I'll do it again. I think it works as well as spraying round-up
on the row middles. Like I said I let one row get to big. Flamer don't
work worth a hoot on big weeds. You can flame on some pretty wet ground
with out causing to much problems, can definatly go when its too wet to
cultivate. I've only done this one year, so it may have problems I haven't
experinced yet. I used, just guessing, 5# of propane. You can crank it up
and go fast or ease off and go slow. Its especially fun at about dusk.
More colorfull. It takes a little getting used to. If your thumbnail
leaves a dark green indentation on a broadleaf after its been flamed it will
die. The plants still look healthy to me, but they die. Grass is a little
harder to kill. You have to get it a little smaller and if the growing
point isn't killed it comes back. I think some grasses are probably harder
to kill than others. As that other fellow said something that comes back
from the roots won't be affected. Hope that helps. Thats about all I know
about it.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Earthfarm1 AT aol.com>
To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Backpack flamers
> Hi,
>
> In a message dated 2/5/01 4:03:06 PM, echoecho AT bedford.heartland.net
writes:
>
> << I have used a back pack flamer this last season. >> Overall were you
> satisfied with it's performance?
>
> How wide are the rows, and how many did you "flame"? What was the brand
you
> purchased? Cost? How much did it cost to operate? Or how much coverage per
> gallon of fuel, etc.?
>
> What kind of weeds did you have? Thanks and best wishes this season.
Frank
>
>
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-
Backpack flamers,
Mike Steinberg, 02/04/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Backpack flamers, Jeffery Blake, 02/05/2001
- Re: Backpack flamers, Peter Worsley, 02/06/2001
- Re: Backpack flamers, Earthfarm1, 02/06/2001
- Re: Backpack flamers, Jeffery Blake, 02/06/2001
- Re: Backpack flamers, Jeffery Blake, 02/06/2001
- Re: Backpack flamers, Liz Pike, 02/06/2001
- Re: Backpack flamers, WB Carver, 02/06/2001
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