On Jun 20, 7:59*am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"Karl Townsend" wrote in message

anews.com...

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I'd think it would be tricky to find the right wick material, so that you
got adequate flow without having the thing drip on your grass while you
move around. Still, it looks promising. I've tried applying Ortho's
Roundup (an all-purpose herbicide that kills everything) with a small
paintbrush, just to see if it works and can be controlled, and it does.. A
wick-type dispenser might just save my back.

The wicks don't work well, because of the drip issue. We use a cloth glove
over a plastic glove with 65% pure Monsanto roundup mixed with 1/3 crop
oil for weeds like quack grass. A little dab will do ya. goes fast.

That's an idea. I still picture myself taking pain killers for my
back...d8-)



back to my query, the small pressure bottle sprayers aren't what we're
after. This wand you've mentioned may be what we'd like, but it can't drip
and you must be able to quickly dispense a 1/4 gram of material. Think
1000's of cycles.

Karl

See if the Killer Kane is still around. I haven't seen it in hardware stores
for decades, but maybe it's available online.

--
Ed Huntress


Doubt it, the active ingredient for the tablets that it used was
sodium chorate. Much desired by the basement bomber types so probably
banned from weed-killer duty.

In my younger days, I was in charge of digging them out from the lawn,
the tool used was a broomstick with a dandelion digger stuck in the
end. Kind of a cross between a spoon and a steel fork(metalworking!),
I've seen them at the hardware stores lately, although the handle is
only about 6" long. A spare broomstick can fix that. Weed-Be-Gone
takes care of the problem on regular lawns, probably wouldn't do
strawberries any good, though. Spot application might work.

Stan