I have smaller handheld version I love. I have had it for about 12? years. It is just perfect for gravel. I got my sister the Weed Dragon, but really it is bigger, heavier, more trouble, and you have to drag or carry around a big propane tank, so they don't use it much. However it has a bigger flame, more like a flamethrower really. That is fine for their country home, but for my little suburban lot,and weeding around live plants I think mine is a better size. When I lived in a place with a looooong gravel driveway the Weed Dragon would have been much better.
Anyway, weeding while standing up drinking from a water bottle-what could be better? The only problem if that you might set something on fire. I set a planter on fire once. I always keep a hose handy, or a full watering can. For Bonehead-that first time takes time and propane, then just quickly go through every few weeks and it is super quick. BTW, you do not have to burn up the weeds, just flame them until they look wilted and dull. Ones that come back from roots are killed by quickly flaming the new leaves every few weeks. After a few treatments like this they just can't keep coming back.
My small handheld one you just screw in a little Coleman Fuel canister. You do have to use a flint and steel sparker to start it on fire, but I find that easy. I saw a slightly more souped up one somewhere that has a internal sparker. Anyway, mine has no moving parts or anything so it is super easy and just can't break, unless you ran over it with the car.
Here is a link to one you can get online, but I saw one recently at my local Ace Hardware store.
http://www.gardeners.com/buy/w...
