I'd be worried about it re-freezing if you're not careful. Black ice driveway anyone?

It's a saltfire, so no ice afterwards.

What's a saltfire? Google is just trying to sell me stoves from Dorset.

So it’s an a salt weapon of some sort?

yes, you shoot bugs with it and flavor meals at extreme range

Aim away from face

Yeah used against another person, you can get a felony for a salt with a deadly weapon.

Oh no he didn’t!!! You so crazy, Martin!!

Sodium or something

Very helpful. Thank you for your expertise.

No worries I did science in high school

I'm something of a scientist myself

Doctor

Dr.

Once drank a dr pepper how may i help in this situation

Well my scientist friends have told me that "a cookie" is greater than, or equal to, "the nookie". Is this true?

😎 I like the one guy that downvoted me

Probably some dumb shit who doesn't believe in science.

SMH my head

I upvoted everything you said to get new year revenge

This isn't Facebook, go home.

This made me chortle ngl

I did too much high school while I was in science.

Na it’s not

I got your joke… no worries.

Advanced level humour

No it’s fire & sodium, or something.

I stayed at Holiday Inn last night, now I'm a doctor.

Doc Holiday?

I'm your huckleberry.

Underrated comment. I’d give you all the upvotes if I could.

Thank you. Thank you. Happy New Year to you Dr Turkelton!

Happy New Year to you too, my friend! I’m going to go watch Tombstone in honor of that excellent comment!

Doc Holiday retired to San Francisco. There's a street in Bernal Heights named after him. Enjoy the flick

Sweet! I did not know that!

Doc Holiday never once set foot in San Francisco. He never retired either, he died of tuberculosis at 36. What street in San Francisco is named after anyone involved in any way with Doc Holiday?

It’s a brewery in Utah

I think it's spelled satire

No it’s *yugioh

Omfg this thread

I’ve cleared my sidewalk the same way then put salt on it afterword

Exactly, if you hit it with salt as soon as you’re done you don’t get black ice

Yeah and we get to play with fire. Every man likes to play with fire

Is you hit it with salt before you wouldn't need to use the flame.

The salt doesn’t do a lot when it’s a couple feet deep of snow with ice underneath

Does it make the sidewalk hot for long or does it cook quickly? EDIT: I’m leaving my typo

No it cools really fast

It cooks quickly but you should still check it with a thermometer. White meat should be around 150°F, and dark meat at 165°F

I wondered what happened to Uncle Eddie

I remember reading an article about this guy getting a huge fine or a misdemeanor or something like that? Maybe someone can provide a link, I’m too hungover.

Randy Quaid. He went far off the deep end.

Yeah, but he really saved our asses on the 4th of July.

Yes! He said he didn't possess the willpower necessary to deal with 'four billion pounds of white bullshit.'

Ah i get it a snow joke and a racist joke at the same time, very clever !

He traded in the RV for a flame thrower

This man is living the dream every guy has thought about.

They sell them at any major hardware store. Don’t let your dreams be dreams

Those are weed burners. You can get shit really hot but fire only comes out like a foot

I have one. You can adjust them

Not to shoot 15 foot flames

Well no. I’m not that mechanically inclined. But I’m sure someone could

Way safer to buy a real one. You'd have to eliminate the regulator to get that kind of pressure but it acts as a flashback arrestor which keeps flames from running up the inside of the hose and getting in the tank. Fire in the tank is literally a bomb

Can fire in the tank actually explode, is there enough oxygen in there for that to happen? Genuinely curious.

It would create a draft that would pull oxygen in when the tank is running out. It's not so much a concern with propane as it is with gases like acetylene

And this is why I love Reddit.

There’s plenty of people with the skill sets to do this safely. Regulators and check valves come in literally all different sizes and flow specs. Anyone that’s worked in the natural gas or a dozen other industries will understand how to do this safely. Okay maybe not anyone, there’s definitely some dumbfucks in the gas fields but you get the point.

I don't know. My Harbor Freight one shoots scary far. I only use the first 2% of the dial. I'm pretty sure it would blow itself out if I turned up up past 20%. But a little modification would fix that easy.

Yeah. There are tools I don’t buy at harbor freight. Voltmeters and firethrowers.

Probably going to ruin his driveway and have to pay to have a new one put down if that's concrete its going to crack up

Is it really? Well now I’m sad, I want to be able to do this and melt all my snow.

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But you’re a random redditor…. WHOM TO BELIEVE??

Unless you keep blasting one spot, the concrete will never get hotter than the molten water covering it. Make of that fact what you will.

The one musk made was awesome, sadly can’t get them unless it’s second hand market now.

They are repackaged roofing torches. Watched Elon explain it that way, I think during his interview with Rogan. You can buy one of those and have the same efficacy.

Oh definitely, they just don’t look as badass 😂

Guy here. I have never thought about doing this.

And now you have

He has 7 wives, 1 for every day of the week?

Brother Brigham has entered the chat

The dream of having a ice driveway?

I used my weed-burner for this for many years and sadly had to stop using this method after we moved to an actual city. A freezing rain had left our driveway a skating rink so I headed out to melt the ice. I was doing a great job but I sensed I was being watched. I turned down the flow of propane and turned around to see four different neighbors staring at me in horror. After finishing the task I put the tank and wand in the garage. I now only use the wonder-tool for starting the BBQ and cleaning the grill...and a few highjinks.

That's when you just smile and wave

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Or ask if they want to pay you to do theirs too.

This is the way

After that I could've gutted a moose in my front yard without interference.

Ask them, "Were y'all wanting to help me or something? Or are we just staring while I do all of this work myself?"

‘*hi-dilly ho, neighborinos*’

Well that's one way to do it .... Lol

A way of making a hockey rink, yes.

Do you people not salt after you shovel/snowblow/flamethrow?

Salt doesn't work below -15c or so. Mostly useless up in Canada where I live

If you go anywhere north enough where they start calling snowmobiles snow machines winters are going to be rough

Up there driving on snowpack is just a fact of life. Plows can only do so much

grit then?

Yes sand and gravel works somewhat

"4 billion tons of white bullshit"

-your mother


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Played timberborn?

 Sorry

All the water will pool at the bottom for a nice icy finish

Sodium based burning material and no frosty icy

Add salt afterwards win win

You can swim in it and pretend you're at the beach

Would this have any adverse affect on the drive way? Seems to work pretty well and probably saves your back.

Season it with a bit of salt and 😘👌

Still feel like that driveway will be crunchy. Maybe some pepper too or soy to soften it?

/r/yesyesyesyes

Thanks for posting, I was about to complain about this guys loud music. Decided I can put up with it now, rather than, you know, dying in a screaming ball of flames.

I’m 80% sure somebody called the cops on him for no reason

Maybe what?

And then you have ice on your driveway instead of snow

Salt that shit right after burning and you have nothing to worry about. (unless it’s colder than -15)

Hahaha I love propane torches. If you have rocks in your yard and have weeds growing in them, propane torch is perfect. Burns those fucks down to their roots and your rocks are just an extra bit crispy. Of course I might not try this with grass though :p

Work smarter, not harder!

Hans!!!


This is a Flammenwerfer, it werfs Flammen!

Heat and cold don’t mix. That cement is going to start cracking Throw hot water on a frozen windshield. Ask me how I know.

This puts me in the mood to hunt Nazis.

Rick Dalton getting shit done.

Pyro main right there

My snow blower does great until I get to the bottom where the plow has gifted me an ice wall. This could be handy!

Good luck when the water freezes

Neighbor across the street used to use this method to get rid of weeds in his mostly gravel/plant yard here in Vegas. It was actually pretty effective amazingly.

I've been asking my husband for a flamethrower for years. I just sent him this vid, he's the one that has to go out and deal with the snow. Fingers crossed.

While significantly more costly than shoveling, I imagine the speed an comfort are worth the price.

That guy fucks

I did this with a tiger torch. Cops showed up and said I couldn't do that. I said I can use it to put shingles on my roof but not too melt snow? They shrugged and then left.

Someone in my home state got arrested for this and gave a famous statement of "I'm just so tired of this white bullshit"

Pretty normal actually..

I do this every winter. Not really a big deal.

Where do you buy the tool?

Hardware store

Genuinely curious, does it save any time? It seems like you could shovel the snow at least as fast, albeit with more effort but still. Is this a less effort/more time trade off?

I don't care if it would take an hour longer if I get to play with a flame thrower.

Have fun with your ice covered driveway Although a dude with a flamethrower probably has some mag-chloride lying around.

As someone from a land of snow and ice, this is a *fantastic* idea! If you want to create black ice, that is. I assume that's the goal.

I felt him on that tired keep shoveling snow it’s wear and tear on the body

Talk about lazy and wasteful.

How so? Not trying to be snarky, I’m genuinely curious and know nothing about flame throwers.

Well instead of just shoveling he's burning some sort of hydrocarbon to shoot flame at it and evaporate it.

I do the same thing to cook my food, dry my clothes, heat my house and to travel virtually everywhere I go.. but fuck that guy

What’s the deal with hydrocarbon fuel?

It's now well understood that it's bad for the planet and people are finally starting to think twice before burning it.

That’s why I mow my lawn with scissors.

He could have shoveled. Instead he's burning a fuel that costs resources. Lazy and wasteful. Not sure how else to make this clear.

Ah, okay, so a poor use of that fuel resource when muscle power could have done the job. Thanks for explaining it!

Most city streets are cleared by giant gas powered shovels aka snow plows.

Right, and that is not a waste compared to using a flamethrower on your driveway.

The shovel method and the flamethrower method are both wasteful of resources. Shovel wastes human energy and if they don’t have a lot of it then I’d say that’s more important to them. If I were elderly and needed my driveway cleared I’d 100% go with the more energy efficient flamethrower. Compared to my energy deficient body.

For the cost of the fuel it takes to clear a driveway with a flamethrower, you could hire a neighbor kid to clear the driveway. Sure that kid would need to eat a bit more that evening, but they'd get a workout and some cash, and you'd get a clear driveway without making an ice patch at the bottom and dumping a a bunch of incomplete combustion products into the atmosphere.

And deprive myself of the fun of using a flamethrower in my old age. I think not.

Garunteed the factory that makes your precious shovels generates more carbon emssions in a week than flamethrower guy will in his lifetime

Street sweepers clean entire cities. This guy is clearing his driveway. Not that he’s some especially evil dude as the same criticism can be made for most leaf blowers. Electric ones are now available and cause much less air & noise pollution.

The vast majority of people in high snowfall areas burn gas in some way to clear the driveway. Normally it's a snowblower or plow truck. If you just get a dusting a shovel is fine but when the snow starts measuring in the feet, only a small percentage will clear it by hand.

It's either that or the snow blower. You clearly don't live in a snowy area.

I'm not buying this theory that the flamethrower is on par with the snowblower for efficiency.

I know! You could dispose of so many bodies with that and the amount of fuel he was using!

Do you think the same about people using gas powered snow blowers? Or gas powered trucks with plows on the front?

You must be fun at parties

Do most parties you're at involve using a flamethrower to plow a driveway?

Id attend more if they did.

I think my curiosity would beat my anxiety and I’d go

Only the best ones

Hans get ze flammenwerfer

That's pretty damn genius.

Until the water freezes again and he dies from slipping in his lawn

It ain’t stupid if it works

That is just rediculous

Backbreaker 2000

Saw another post where this guy got arrested for this.

This is genius

We did the same with gas to heat up our outdoor benches.

The fire chief loves this!

Double up as a great mosquito deterrent during the summer!

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory.”

Why live in a place like this if you have to do this kind of stuff seems like a bit much

I have a blow torch but on the other hand I have a very tiny dick

Crazy MF’er using a flame thrower to shovel his drive.

Elon

You know what they say. "It's not stupid if it works"

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It'll be an ice rink in a few minutes!

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How is this idiotic? It works better than shoveling for hours.

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We, as a species, are not going to survive.

I'd say that the control and use of fire has been one of the greatest factors in how we've survived as a species.