Patent ID: 7954276
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
1. A method for eradicating a plant using unnatural hot wound mechanical and thermal trauma delivered from a stab knife (V) to a root (R) of said plant, said method comprising: [1] Producing a stab gash (K) using a flat stab knife (V) so formed as to be at least one of acuate and v-shaped, said stab gash sufficiently deep to traverse a cortex (C) of said plant root and penetrate to a xylem (X) of said root at a location; [2] heating said root using a heater (H) in thermal communication with said stab knife and via dwell of said stab knife in said root at said location, with said stab knife held at a temperature of higher than 70 C for sufficient time to cause a cellular damage to said plant root, including said xylem at said location.