Patent ID: 8365464

Claim:
A hot stab plant eradicator for eradicating a plant using unnatural hot wound mechanical and thermal trauma delivered from a stab unit (U) to a root (R) of said plant, said hot stab plant eradicator comprising a stab unit which comprises: [1] a stab knife (V) which is flat, acuate and v-shaped and is formed so that all surfaces of said stab knife taper to a common point and sufficiently long to traverse a cortex (C) of said root and penetrate to a xylem (X) of said root at a location upon driving said stab unit into said root to create a stab gash; [2] a heater (H) in thermal communication with said stab knife, said heater so constructed and energized so as to allow surface temperatures of said stab knife higher than 70 C.