I saw a commercial for a weed puller that's a long drill bit - what's it called?

[quarterback]

It's basically a really long (3 ft?) drill bit with a pointed tip and a curved 'blade' coming off the side.  You stick it into your cordless drill and drill out your weeds.  All for $19.95 and not available in stores!

Anybody seen this commercial? Anybody know what this thing is called? I'd like to do some internet investigation but I don't know what to Google.

Thanks

[Jabba]

http://www.ergonica.com/ergonica_frame.htm?weeder_features.htm&1

Would it be the Weed Twister? Has the "As seen on TV" logo...

Hey Kids..."Buy one for yourself and one for Mom" 

[shmokes]

Cordless drill?  into the ground?  Yeah.....you'll be pulling about two weeds before the battery is sapped.  And that's if you have a big 18 volt drill.  If you've just got a dinky little $25 drill forget about it.

[quarterback]

http://www.ergonica.com/ergonica_frame.htm?weeder_features.htm&1

Would it be the Weed Twister? Has the "As seen on TV" logo...

That's not it, but it's the same kind of "tool".  Just this one had more of a 'blade' and was built to be put in a power drill.

Cordless drill? into the ground? Yeah.....you'll be pulling about two weeds before the battery is sapped.

Well, you could certainly use a corded power drill, but I've got a DeWalt that I think would be up to the task.  It's pretty hearty.

[DrewKaree]

What type of weeds are you looking to use this on?  Depending on the type of weed, you could be doing more damage (by causing the weed to spread) than just spraying it with RoundUp or some other glyphosphate-based weed killer.

Also, if you can get something like that at it, you can safely spray it dead. 

[quarterback]

What type of weeds are you looking to use this on?

[DrewKaree]

Funny you should ask, DK.  I was going to actually take some pics of my weeds and ask you what they were (based on some past posts you've made, I thought you might know)

No problems at all.  Where are you located - some are specific to certain areas?  I found a site for California, but I've had terrible luck at finding anything that's an "all-in-one" picture identification chart for weeds online.  I've got several charts at work, and yours may be something common.

The reason I say you may not want to use that tool is that some weeds spread by rhizomes and by cutting off the weed in one spot, you may cause TWO to grow elsewhere as it tries to survive and branches out underground, making it seem like you're gaining ground, but you're actually compounding the problem  

If you've got a pic or two, I should be able to I.D. it, or check here to see if you can walk through it and identify it:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/PESTS/weedkey.html

Down near the bottom there's a "begin key" box.  Click on that, and it'll walk you through a bunch of steps to narrow it down, hopefully leaving you with one or two possibilities.

One thing - does the thing smell, either just standing near it, or when you tear/cut a piece of it off?  I've never heard of a dog liking those types of weeds, but there's a first time for everything.....and if so, those are rather invasive weeds

I've used round up in the past, but now have a dog (who likes to eat the weeds) and I'm just a little leery of spraying the back yard.

Is there a website with photo examples of weeds?  If so, I could point out which ones I've got.

See if you can find the local college's extension site for your area (the extension office is the agriculture/landscape-y help site - if you had soil samples you needed testing, that's where you'd send 'em) and they'll almost certainly have very specific information to your area about weeds and just about anything green and growing.

If your whole backyard is terrible and you want to kill everything off and reseed/sod and don't want pesticides for the dog to ingest, find a carpet store in your area and take a bunch of their remnants and lay them down over the area you want to kill off.  It'll take a few weeks or so, but it's the safest way to kill off everything green underneath the carpet.

[DrewKaree]

Better identification site:

     http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/weedid/

[quarterback]

Better identification site:

[Bones]

Weed gives me the munchies.

[DrewKaree]

Weed gives me the munchies.

You should try smoking some garlic mustard.  That'll cure you of those munchies.

[Bones]

Weed gives me the munchies.

You should try smoking some garlic mustard.

[DrewKaree]

cough, cough. <smooth>

Dude, take it easy....you're makin' it all harsh and stuff.  Slow and steady.  You're all hotboxin' it and $#!7

[Bones]

Bones not here man.

[DrewKaree]

Man, that stuff's Labrador, man! 



I don't remember the line verbatim, but best line in a movie:

Cop:  Do you know how fast you were going?

Cheech:  I dunno, man.  Like, 65?

Cop:  SIX!  YOU WERE GOING SIX MILES AN HOUR!





Bones, here's one to chew on while working on your munchies

If you're going to shoot a mime, do you need to use a silencer?

[lazhen]

It's called a Weed Claw and Bulb Drill Attachment Tool, and it is Item Number V22727
The QVC Price is $18.47
Click on this address.

[quarterback]

It's called a Weed Claw and Bulb Drill Attachment Tool, and it is Item Number V22727

That's it!  Thanks new-person-with-only-one-post-who-just-showed-up-here-to-answer-my-query

I doubt I'll get it since I've now clocked a number of hours pulling the weeds up by hand, but I appreciate the info stranger.

[lazhen]

Glad to have been able to help.