Tonight I was going to have smoked mackrel for tea, but I cant get the smoker lit. I have looked online before, but havent found a powerful enough lighter, I want a long reach one with a flame like a blowtorch. thanks
There yah go!
Then use a blowtorch! That's what I use to light my charcoal barbecue.
I do have an old one of these
I assumed that the smoker did the cooking, and that you simply wanted some means of lighting it. Is that not so?
I use my wife's creme brule torch:-)
That's also *part* of my solution . . . The creme brule torch has spark ignition which my big blowlamp doesn't. So I light the little one first, and then use that to light the big one.
I always use the bags of impregnated charcoal, and they go better if you light them on several sides with a decent flame.
One with a much longer neck than a standard blowlamp would be ideal, I'd guess. Something like a smaller version of a weed burner.
I have a long reach Lidl weed burner which uses gas cartridges. Of course they aren't on sale at the moment so you would have to wait up to 6 months. I think you missed them by about 1.5 months.
Something similar to
Very useful for lighting BBQs, wood burning stoves and the like.
Google for "weed wand" and you will find loads on eBay.
Cheers
Dave R
How long reach, and what's it lighting?
I bought a lighter which is about 12" reach from Waitrose a few weeks ago, but also saw a similar one in Poundland yesterday. They take lighter fuel.
Are they any good for their proclaimed purpose? Do they really burn weeds effectively?
My experience of weed burning was in 1962 when my father used a paraffin-fuelled device which wouldn't look amiss on roadworks.
You only need to cook them to kill them. They are good at killing weeds but they need regular use at this time of year to stop new growth.
Although I'm sure most people would actually burn the weeds, it's not necessary. All that is required is that the weeds are heated sufficiently to damage their cells, and they will wilt and die over the next day or two. But deep-rooted weeds such as dandelions, docks etc will re-grow, as the root remains unaffected. You need glyphosate for them, or dig them out by hand.
Oh, happy memories! Those big orange flame-guns were great fun, and spectacular if you pressurised them too early, before the coil had got hot enough. Great jets of flaming paraffin shooting out, setting fire to all and sundry!
Why not use firelighters?
IME the Lidl one is OK for firelighting, but not much use for weedkilling. It just isn't powerful enough. The old paraffin weed burners were better. Don't know if they are still made?
Had a regular school holiday and weekend job with a mate in a very dilapidated walled garden that once belonged to a manor house that by then had been sold off to become a prep school. The lady owner of the garden who was trying vainly to grow produce as a business asked us to remove a decade or so of growth of holly and ivy from the walls ,we used the weed wand to great effect but a fair number of people especially in the school got rather alarmed at the subsequent wall of flame about 100 yards long and getting on for 20 to
30 ft high. Kept us nice and warm on a dry cold January day though. Later she asked us to clear out a sunken greenhouse disused for 30 years a job we tackled on a Friday, We burnt down the accumulated vegetation with the wand and then damped down and went home intending to dig out the rubbish on Monday. We need not have bothered with the damping down as on our return we now had a new water feature which was a sunken green house with a 3ft deep pool inside. After pumping out and removing the muck we found the cause , a long forgotten tap on a lead pipe hidden amonst the brambles which we had melted off with the wand.G.Harman
They don't taste nice.
Owain
Voice of experience?
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