Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

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.