Simple weed killer

[bluebobtail]

Thought id post a few pics of our weed killer. Its older than me i believe but boy does it work.

 

[breezer]

My old man's got one of them, burnt the shed down with it (by accident!)

 

[brightspark]

i have one but now use a propane roofers torch with economiser trigger and a 10lb gas bottle its quicker

 

[bluebobtail]

I'm lending one of those of a friend as in sure its safer to. I'm surprised it still worked to be honest, as its not been used in years.

 

[JEZGUZ]

I dug mine out today but I reckon I might be better off with a combine harvester. Yours looks to be burning a bit yellow, the flame should be nearer a blue colour and roaring like a jet. Try removing the jet, square head on it just to make life difficult, but you can get the proper spanner and a pricker to clean the jet with quite cheaply. You will probably find debris in the end of the pipe, mine tends to block up on a regular basis, but when they're running right they are hard to beat.

 

[Wedg1e]

I could do with one of those. I have weeds so tall that I found a guy called Jack eyeing them up...

 

[bluebobtail]

lol wedg1e
I had mine running on red diesel rather than paraffin.
Am having a problem with the pressure pump to be honest.
It builds pressure up on the down stroke but when pulling back it creates a vacuum?
If i unscrew the pump and pump it that way it works fine when i pull the plunger all the way out.
If that makes sense.

Anyway won't get much use this week.
I'm doing my class 2 driver training.
So it will have to wait till next week.