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A 28-inch flame and 340,000 BTU make this the biggest burner in the group, and on a gravel drive full of cheatgrass that isn't a vanity figure. The boost lever under your thumb dumps fuel for a wide, fast pass; let it go and the flame drops back to an idle you can steer into a paver joint.

We came to think of it as a land-clearing tool more than a weeding tool, which is either exactly what you need or a good reason to look at something smaller. A quarter acre of gravel or a pile of brush is its natural job, and nothing else here covers that ground as quickly. Six feet of patio cracks is not. It also won't run on 1-lb cylinders at all — Flame King calls for a 20-lb tank or larger.

Two things decide whether it lights on the first press. Keep the boost lever released while you hit the piezo, and crack the tank valve slowly: open it fast and the excess-flow valve trips, and you get a weak, sulky flame that reads like a broken torch and isn't. Cold weather does the same thing by dropping tank pressure, so a full tank in November beats a half-empty one.

Where we hesitate is the joint between the burner head and the wand. That thread is the wear point on a torch this size, and a head that works loose mid-pass isn't something to keep using — shut the tank valve and set it down. Weighed against the price and the sheer output, it still earns its place, just with your eyes open.

Twelve and a half feet of hose is the longest here, and it changes the rhythm of the job: the tank sits at the edge of the drive while you cover the whole run with nothing in your hands but the wand. The handle also comes apart. Pull the extension and the torch shortens for close work along a foundation; add it back and you're standing upright at 35 inches.

The CGA600 connector takes 1-lb cylinders as well as 5- to 100-lb tanks, which is more flexibility than most hose kits offer — you can start on a small bottle and move up to a 20-lb tank without buying another fitting. The gas valve sets a working flame and the turbo trigger adds a burst on top of it, so there are two levels of control rather than one.

Of the hose kits, this is the one we point at someone who isn't sure yet how they'll use a torch. It's the least specialized of the group: long enough for a driveway, shortenable for a bed, and covered for three years, which is twice the warranty on either Flame King.

The flame spreads as you open the valve, and at full trigger it's wide rather than pointed — good for sweeping gravel, less precise when you're trying to spare the plants on either side of a weed. That's the one place the shorter torches here do better.

No push button, no piezo, no electronics at all: this one lights with a flint striker built into the handle, the way a gas grill does. Given how much of the trouble with torches comes down to an igniter that worked for a month and then didn't, we count that as the feature you're paying for — and it's the reason this torch is on the list at all.

Forty inches of reach is the second thing. It arrives fully assembled, runs a 10-foot hose to a standard propane cylinder, and puts the tank on the ground while you stand upright with the burner a comfortable distance ahead of you. The adjustment valve goes from a small blue flame for crack work up to something you can point at a brush pile.

At 100,000 BTU it's the mildest of the hose kits — roughly a third of the output of the Flame King 340,000 BTU model — and the flame is controlled rather than dramatic. On a big gravel drive that means a slower pass. On a patio, a rock bed, or a fence line, we never wanted more, and the cooler flame is easier to keep off siding.

What you're buying, then, is a tool with nothing to break in the ignition and a reach that keeps you out of the heat. If raw output per dollar is the thing that matters to you, the 340,000 BTU model wins that argument.

There's nothing to assemble and nothing to misplace: a 30-inch arm with a rubber grip, a trigger-start igniter, and a burner head that screws straight onto a propane tank. No hose, no bag, no fittings to keep track of between sessions.

It's the least expensive torch here, and for a lot of yards that's the right size of commitment — a patio, a rock garden, a short driveway, a spring's worth of weeds in the expansion joints. We like it as a first torch precisely because it doesn't ask you to buy a 20-lb tank before you know whether the work is for you.

The 30-inch handle is the real limit. Fine on flat ground, less so when you're reaching over a bed, and once you hang a tank off the end you're carrying the weight rather than steering it. A 1-lb cylinder makes it a genuinely one-handed tool; a 20-lb tank turns it into a two-hand job.

The 2,800-degree figure is marketing. What we noticed is that the flame is broad and hot enough for seedlings and small annuals and slow going on anything woody. Three years of warranty coverage is unusually generous at this end of the price range, and it takes most of the risk out of a budget buy.

Thirty-seven inches with an angled head is the longest one-piece reach here, and the bend is the useful part: the burner points down and away while your hands stay behind the heat, so you can work the edge of a flower bed without stooping or cooking your knuckles.

The connectors are solid copper with a double seal at the cylinder, the valve is a plain adjustable knob, and a push button lights it. Nothing here is fancy, and that's fine — the parts that matter are metal where the heat is.

This is the torch for a small yard and a bad back, or for reaching into the gap between a fence and a hedge where a hose kit gets tangled. The handle is plastic, though, and with a tank hung on the end that's the piece we watch; the hose torches put that weight on the ground instead.

The igniter is the other thing to keep an eye on. Ours lit without drama, but a push button on a torch at this price is where the money was saved, so keep a long lighter in a pocket and don't spend a Saturday arguing with it.