https://feddit.uk/u/Iconoclast posted on Feb 23, 2026 06:10
If only I had friends I would’ve bought two!
If only I had friends I would’ve bought two!
Google Blazer Gt800 for a more fun upgrade ;)
smokey the bear wants your location.
Anyway I never thought of using my butane torch for weed working or killing brush. I’m sure in a controlled manner this might he so much easier
Suggesting anything Google is bad, mkay?
Fun fact: 90% of forest fires are cussed by human activity.
More fun fact: 100% of crme brulee are tasty.
Don’t do that though.
…I would’ve bought two!
You’ve got two hands, don’t you?
Those beer can helmets… … …
Dibs on your team for post-apocalyptic wasteland raiding.
I got a gun shaped “weed killer” type (knock off Ali Express version, not the elon one). Easily my favorite lawn tool.
(in an Australian accent)
That’s not a weed burner…
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f7b003cd-8de7-4ae6-b8ee-f4246b088b2e.png
…That’s a weed burner!
100% of forest fires are caused by forests being flammable
I like the idea that Google can lose copyright over the verb “to google” if people keep misusing it. So just google it with your favourite search engine if you don’t like Google, screw em ;)
That’s very mild misuse. Why not substitute something completely different with “googling”. Like wiping an ass or sorting the garbage. In modern times of the Internet and memes it is doable:)
is it effective against emus though?
We should get rid of forests. Dangerous shit.
They don’t like to talk about that.
Because that’s not how language naturally velcroes new vocabulary into the dumpster of lexicon. I have neither Band-Aids for boo boos or Kleenex for tears. If your ass is challpped by my language may I recommend chapstick, be sure to use a q-tip
I once went to a hotel that did creme brulee in a paella dish. I REALLY want to know what they used on that!
That’s an de-icing torch, sorry I mean de-ICEing torch.
😂
I heard they’re flammable, we could just torch ‘em.
Don’t make creme brulee with a butane torch.
You at least have some snow over there.
Unfortunelately yeah. Few more months to suffer through untill spring arrives.
50% of forest fires are caused by lightning and they account for 80% of area burned…at least in Canada. I suspect your fun fact is just low grade humor adding to people’s general ignorance.
Wait until he finds about welding torches and how hotter they are…
I’m plenty experienced in oxy-acetylene welding. I just don’t have my own equipment nor do I have enough need for one to justify the price.
More people in the forest. Most of Canada lives near the border so you get lots of forest and more of fires far away from humans. The US is more dispersed.
I worked for a wildfire agency for a while. There are more people in the North than you imagine. The population figures for us are permanent residents. But the rotational workforce in the North is substantial.
They are there for forestry, but also heavy industry like mining and oil extraction. Outfitting for hunting and fishing as well. The most common human cause in my jurisdiction is the “shore lunch” where guys fishing will pull ashore for lunch and mess up the cooking fire somehow. Number 2 reason is messed up spark arresters on vehicles.
Your explanation makes some sense to me, but not a 400% difference. I’ll take a fire investigator to lunch this week and ask.
Power companies lean on local governments to misidentify the causes when it’s them too, as they are actively doing with the LA CA fires. It’s often power lines causing the fires, but they might scour social media and the internets with their ai program to find some kid that was in the area around that time that had any comment they could use to blame him. They blamed a kid that was in the area like a week before, that had prompted ai for a fake wildfire picture. Claimed the fire must have started, then went underground for a week or whatever.
Pretty incredible assumption given the power lines were seen sparking, in that wind. As always in this country, you can’t trust authorities, it could be they are right, or it could be the powerful utility used their influence to blame it on some poor kid that made an ill timed prompt. Given there was no fire reported the week when the kid was there, as I understand it, no evidence of him doing anything with fire, does not speak well to their credibility if you ask me.
Considering what we know about PGE, the power company, the very same the movie Erin Brokavich was about, that knowlingly poisoned populations just to keep using a particular cleaner in their operations, not even a good reason. Or that started numerous other wild fires in the area prior.
I’ve seen video of exhaust from a vehicle starting a brush fire on the edge of a parking lot.
Found the alt account of the logging ceo.
Meanwhile in the OP house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-yqtSU2zg
That’s what I use for dabs
I’m on it!
Don’t you start planting ideas I’ll regret later.
Whatever actually productive stuff I might achieve with this - like getting rid of weeds - is just a by-product of me having fun.
Sir, this is a place for dull things. This looks far too exciting for this place.
Creme brulee torches all use butane, did you mean to say propane?
I love my weed burner. Weeding has never been so much fun
They spray butane on the creme? This is food safe?
sudden memory of camping near a logging site, when someone’s less than stable friend got their hands on an unsecured flamethrower
I mean we kinda already do. We could more so, though.
This reminds me of one of my favourite hungarian words: “zsebsárkány” which translated literally is “pocket dragon”. It means those butane torches that are used to caramelise creme brulee.
Someone send OP free tickets to DC, and when they arrive, upgrade them from butane to MAP gas.
You ignite the torch before you move it close to the food so all the butane should burn off. Butane evaporates at room temperature anyway so I wouldn’t expect it to be a problem. Propane is also fine which makes sense given that it’s used in grills.
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE.
Oh heavens no, the cursed devils pollen. /S
Gotta agree :/
It’s safe because of all the snow
It works with the a Scottish accent too!
Talk about scorched earth.
