Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit Reviews
Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit
- Flame weeds and brush in your yard
- Thaw frozen pipes
- Melt snow and ice
- Remove paint, grease, oil, and plastic from metal
- Sterilize metal animal cages
Kit is complete with everything you need except the fuel cylinder and fuel. Ideal for burning weeds, stumps, sterilizing cages, clearing irrigation ditches, heating, patching asphalt, plus numerous other agricultural and industrial uses. Fire departments
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List Price: $ 96.00
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July 14th, 2010 at 5:44 am
Review by Gary L. Wright for Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit
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I bought this thing while I was camping. Our firewood was a bit damp and I was having trouble getting the campfire started. With this handy-dandy roaster, I had a bonfire within a minute or so. Then, I decided to use it on the weeds at home. The instructions warn against using the torch near conifers (like Evergreen-type shrubs, bushes, topiaries), so I stayed about 5 feet away from those. Well, this thing is hotter than the blazes of Hell and Damnation itself! I roasted a few of my bushes, but thankfully, they’ve started to come back. We just had a few inches of snow here in Chicago and I drove over it in the driveway. I ended up with icy patches of packed snow and figured I’d pull out Satan’s air conditioner. Not only did it melt those ice patches faster than a hooker drops her panties, it melted a five foot section of snow (about 3 inches deep) in front of the nozzle. Well, after that, I just had to screw around with it. I cooked a frozen hot-dog in less than 30 seconds. OK, “cooked” is the wrong word. I turned a frozen hot dog into a pile of ash. Since that was fun, I tried it with an old cell-phone I had laying around. It stunk, but man it was cool to watch it turn into a gelatinous pile of stink. Someone else mentioned having to roast your weeds and then come back to weed by hand a week later. That’s totally unnecessary. Just hold the flame on the weed for about 10 seconds and it’ll kill it, burn it, turn it to ash, and then burn the ash into smaller ash. The roots will be dead and the weed will never return. OK, maybe it will, but I roasted a section of stone in my backyard that had weeds growing up. It’s been nearly 2 years and nothing has grown there. Yeah, it sounds like a jet engine when you fire it up, but it’s awesome! I highly recommend this for weed burning, camp fire starting, party tricks, and hot dog cremation. And next week, I’m going to head over to my mean, old, crotchety neighbor’s house in the middle of the night and burn “A-Hole” into his lawn. Man, I can’t wait till my kid’s hamster bites the dust!
July 14th, 2010 at 6:10 am
Review by Gabiel Leon for Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit
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Overall the Red Dragon does the job. What it could have to make handling easier would be a hand grip with perhaps a trigger.
July 14th, 2010 at 6:38 am
Review by Tim Lavrouhin for Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit
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I bought this higher BTU torch because it seemed to be a better value than the lower rated ones. It’s power is impressive. I rarely open the valve all the way. When I do, it sounds like the NASA test range. The heat is plenty for the toughest jobs. I had a 4″ slab of ice in my parking area this winter and was able to carve a drainage trench in it pretty quickly. Still, the propane consumption seemed very reasonable.
July 14th, 2010 at 7:05 am
Review by M. Monti for Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit
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Even though this torch is fun to use, the weeds resist the flame much better than they resist chemical treatment (Roundup). I’ve found that a week later the same weeds are growing back, even when I burn them to ash. The best way to use this torch is in conjunction with a good line trimmer. You’ll be using lots of gas if you don’t cut the weeds down first. I’ll keep burning them and see if eventually they just give up and die for good but so far it does not look promising.
July 14th, 2010 at 7:37 am
Review by John Earle for Red Dragon VT 3-30 C 500,000 BTU Heavy Duty Propane Vapor Torch Kit
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No instructions were included on how to assemble the fittings. Though I figured it out and it functions check Sears first. i found a similar Torch that also included a squeeze handle (see my review on Flame engineering handle) for less than these two components cost on Amazon.