Clearing your driveway in 2020 fashion

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[soothsayer]

1. Where does one buy a flamethrower?

[Renew Deal]

2. 7/11

[underpants]

7. Amazon, Harbor Freight, Northern Tool

google it. Lots of options.

[soothsayer]

8. Thanks! Who knew?

I googled and got sidetracked by an Elon Musk one...

[jmowreader]

23. When you go to the store, ask for a "roofer's torch"

A commercial roofing type, APP (atactic polypropylene) is applied by heating the membrane with a propane torch then immediately rolling the membrane onto the roof. A roofer's torch comes attached to a card that says "also good for clearing driveways of snow" on it.

You will also need a 20-pound gas grill-style propane tank. These torches use a shitload of fuel.

[ornotna]

27. That is definitely not a roofers torch

I think that might be one of the Elon Musk ones.

[jmowreader]

28. It isn't, but a roofer's torch is what you want

Next strange question: how does a flamethrower fit in with the carbon-displaced future Elon Musk is promoting? Something tells me he isn't running it on hydrazine.

[ornotna]

29. I agree, roofers torch would be perfect

Whatever he's running on it's rotting his brain.

[MurrayDelph]

26. When we moved to Oregon

My wife got tired of pulling weeds from a graveled patio, and went to Home Depot to buy a flamethrower.

The first guy laughed at her request, but asked his superior "Hey, Bob, do we have flamethrowers?"

Bob said "Aisle 12."

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. LOL

[Docreed2003]

4. And he appears to be dressed as Cousin Eddy

[a kennedy]

24. Yes, yes, and I laughed at the young news anchor on our local tv station

didn’t know who cousin Eddy even was. He just was talking about the flame thrower and “that hat was so appropriate being cold out”. Didn’t mention anything about it being a look alike to Eddy. I’m sure he was to young......

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. That's genuinely scary.

And stupid. I'd have called 911 and asked if that was allowed in my area.

[NutmegYankee]

10. Lighten up Francis!

I’ll admit to using my 500,000 btu propane weed torch the same way.

[Hekate]

11. Weed torch? What is this igniter of dry brush of which you speak?

Also a chuckle, because oh boy, different ecologies

[NutmegYankee]

12. Basically like this

Sometimes with the same howls of joy! I corrected the BTU value. My torch is 500,000 BTUs.

[Hekate]

13. Awesome!

Truly awesome. Thank you for that image.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. The maniacal laughter is perfect! ❤ nt

[cojoel]

18. Does it use a lot of propane?

I'm thinking it might be a lot but really haven't much of a clue.

[NutmegYankee]

19. It's fairly wasteful. It's worse than my darkstar burner for cooking beer or canning

I mainly use it to start the fire pit or to dispose of yard waste in the fire pit. I'm usually disposing of green wood or green yard waste, so a little inferno action gets it cooking quite nicely without liquid petroleum products. New England has wicked low PH soil, roughly 5.5, so the ash is useful to increase PH in the garden.

[Blue_true]

31. I agree with you.

The dude was one natural gas line leak from causing massive damage and possibly death, and it would not have taken a large leak either.

[underpants]

6. Once again, it was on the list but no flamethrower under the tree

😪

[stopdiggin]

17. Santa knows

giving a male (of any age) a chainsaw .... (even before we thought of flamethrowers!)

MISTAKE!!
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[sinkingfeeling]

9. Hope he doesn't clean off the cars the same way.

[intheflow]

14. All I can think of is the black ice that will form

from all that hastily melted snow in subzero temps. But then, maybe he's planning another sweep the next morning to catch what he missed.

[stopdiggin]

15. my thought too

unless you spend enough time out there to evaporate everything off the pavement? And ice is a thousand times more treacherous ....
(I think the "humor" is suppose to take precedence over practicality here.)

[whistler162]

21. reminds me of this

https://fb.watch/2DsxQ4-rvz/

[intheflow]

25. That's a hellova way to start your day! n/t

[Poiuyt]

32. I know I'm going to go to hell for saying this, but I don't think there's anything

funnier than watching people slip and fall on ice.

[FakeNoose]

20. I hope he's clearing his wife's side of the driveway

If he isn't ... then bye-bye flamethrower.

[pecosbob]

22. I have to say I've watched a few videos like this that didn't turn out well

Exercises in creative snow clearing can go badly...

[Blue_true]

30. Hopefully he knows his property and there is not a leaky natural gas line nearby.

Things like what he is doing can go bad very fast.

[Poiuyt]

33. Clearing snow isn't so bad...

It's when the snowplows come through and put all the snow into your driveway apron. And then it freezes into a giant ice wall.

The older I get, the more I hate Wisconsin winters!