Weed It & Hope

[Guy King]

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

It won't burn on its own anyway even without inhibitor. It's an oxidising agent.

[The Medway Handyman]

Ssshhh, Quiet you fool.......................

[Guy King]

The message from mike contains these words:

"Wakey WAKEY!"

[Steve Walker]

Surely the hand of friendship would be more appropriate?

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Guy King writes

My preferred system for clearing weedy ground prior to digging is to have a quick whizz round scorching the tops and follow up a week later when the top growth will usually burn. The benefit is that the soil surface can be heated sufficiently to destroy seeds. Best done with a bit of breeze so you can avoid the smoke.

Now that agriculture has been dragged into the EU waste directive, I wonder if we are still allowed to do this?

regards

[The Natural Philosopher]

Both actually. I have made impressive bombs out of chlorate, pre retardant days.

Nitrate is better of course.

[Guy King]

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

Friend and I spent many happy hours blowing things up, including, just before O-levels, a finger and a half of his.

[EricP]

Ah, the days of my dad asking why all the shiplap on the shed was an inch away from the supporting timbers.

[Andy Hall]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:49:11 +0100, Steve Walker wrote (in article ):

Definitely. At least I didn't say "alis"

[The Natural Philosopher]

We were either more lucky, or more circumspect.

The three closest calls were

1/. Sawing the end off a live .22 round held clamped in a vice.

2/. A rocket with nozzle made of washers Araldited to the end. This performed exactly as a good pipe bomb should, but luckily the shrapnel was pointing away from me..

3/. A small ball bearing cannon using black powder out of some bangers that succeeded in punching a clean hole through the 8mmm thick cast (iron? Mezac?) sign proclaiming the manufactures of the tennis court adjacent to the field we tried it out on....

..after that ne my friend whose idea irt was went very quite and said 'I think that sort of proves it works, probably we don't want to use it again do we?...'

We did continue to use the chlorate though..our favorite was an inverted humbrol paint tin, full of chlorate and sugar, on a dish of the same, lit by a Jetex fuse. These would pop the lids and make fireballs that went up about 15-20 feet.

[Tim]

Guy King wrote

Whereabouts? This happened to a friend of mine at school in Birkenhead decades ago.

[Guy King]

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

We discovered that Camping Gaz cartridges put bonfires out more than adequately. Provided you don't mind having the bonfire distributed all over the back garden.

[Guy King]

The message from "Tim" contains these words:

Near Sevenoaks, mid-seventies.

[Chris Bacon]

Is it paved? With what? Glyphosphate (various brands) is good, and should kill most roots in one application, although there are exceptions. Sodium Chlorate is good brushed into crevices of sprinkled on from a watering can (fitted with a rose), *but* you have to look out for any run-off (rains can wash it elsewhere).