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

On Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:18:27 UTC+1, misterroy wrote:
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!
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourc...0weed%20burner

On 21/08/2016 20:18, misterroy wrote:
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

Then use a blowtorch! That's what I use to light my charcoal barbecue.
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On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 8:33:23 PM UTC+1, harry wrote:
On Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:18:27 UTC+1, misterroy wrote:
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!
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourc...0weed%20burner

I do have an old one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sheen-X300-.../dp/B007G7GAYA
but the cooking would be pretty close to instant

On 21/08/2016 22:12, misterroy wrote:
On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 8:33:23 PM UTC+1, harry wrote:
On Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:18:27 UTC+1, misterroy wrote:
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!
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourc...0weed%20burner

I do have an old one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sheen-X300-.../dp/B007G7GAYA
but the cooking would be pretty close to instant

I assumed that the smoker did the cooking, and that you simply wanted
some means of lighting it. Is that not so?
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In message , Roger Mills
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On 21/08/2016 20:18, misterroy wrote:
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

Then use a blowtorch! That's what I use to light my charcoal barbecue.

I use my wife's creme brule torch:-)

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Tim Lamb

On 22/08/2016 08:53, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Roger Mills
writes
On 21/08/2016 20:18, misterroy wrote:
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

Then use a blowtorch! That's what I use to light my charcoal barbecue.

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.
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In article ,
Roger Mills wrote:
On 21/08/2016 20:18, misterroy wrote:
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

Then use a blowtorch! That's what I use to light my charcoal barbecue.

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.

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On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:18:25 -0700, misterroy wrote:

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

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
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Range-WEED-...ers-Butane/dp/
B008CIT3MS

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

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In article ,
misterroy writes:
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

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.

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On 22/08/2016 19:39, David wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:18:25 -0700, misterroy wrote:

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

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
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Range-WEED-...ers-Butane/dp/
B008CIT3MS

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

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.

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Rod

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:30:23 +0100, polygonum
wrote:

On 22/08/2016 19:39, David wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:18:25 -0700, misterroy wrote:

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

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
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Range-WEED-...ers-Butane/dp/
B008CIT3MS

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

Are they any good for their proclaimed purpose? Do they really burn
weeds effectively?

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.

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In ,
writes:

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

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.



Why not use firelighters?

wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:30:23 +0100,
wrote:


On 22/08/2016 19:39, David wrote:

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:18:25 -0700, misterroy wrote:


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

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
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Range-WEED-...ers-Butane/dp/
B008CIT3MS

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


Are they any good for their proclaimed purpose? Do they really burn
weeds effectively?

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.


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?

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:16:24 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:



My experience of weed burning was in 1962 when my father used a
paraffin-fuelled device which wouldn't look amiss on roadworks.

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!

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

On Thursday, 25 August 2016 10:41:16 UTC+1, Capitol wrote:
Why not use firelighters?

They don't taste nice.

Owain

wrote:
On Thursday, 25 August 2016 10:41:16 UTC+1, Capitol wrote:

Why not use firelighters?

They don't taste nice.

Owain


Voice of experience?