I Need a Thing

Susan Schmidlin August 5, 2016 things, tools, wrenches

While at the woodland tour, I came across a little tool that the owners use on their property.

It is called a Weed Wrench woody plant puller, it is also called and Uprooter, Brush Grabber or an Extractigator (I kid you not!). It looks like a pipe wrench attached to a three foot pole.

The premise behind the tool is to slide the pipe wrench part around the stem of Scotch Broom, Hawthorn, Bull Thistles, etc. and lever the pole so that the wrench slide shut on the stem and the operator can pull the weed right out of the ground. It’s all manual, so it does take quite a bit of maneuvering, but I think that would be much easier that carrying a chain saw and shovel around like I have been doing.

An orange tool called a weed puller looks like a monkey wrench on a stick.

This year is already past time when the soil will be damp enough to work this amazing appliance, but I have all winter to either find one or have one fabricated. So now, I am looking for my own weed wrench, I need that thing!