Just got this (red) at Lowes and am really impressed with it over above the Hound Dog weed extractor (yellow) I’ve had for a couple years now. The former is so much easier and seems to get more of the root. Leaves a hole you just fill in with top soil. I think its perfect if you have a small yard and trying to grow things you don’t want contaminated with bad chemical. It runs about $30, which is well worth it!
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We’ve looked around a bit for something similar since we saw a neighbor using a garage sale find. We considered a “Yard Butler” but there were some very negative reviews. I’ll check out the WeedSlayer- thanks for the heads up.
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How does it work on weedy tree seedlings?
I have a weed puller from Fiskars. Its worked pretty well since I purchased it about 5 or 6 years ago. It uses 4 claws and leverage to pull out the weed. There is a handle that slides and ejects the weed.
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I’ve got to ask, what weeds do you have that require a four foot pole with handlebars and a tip with a footstep of a thing? I just use a fork to loosen the soil around tap roots, and pull the weed up by hand. Adjoining sprawling grasses appreciate the loosened soil, even after I tamp the soil back down. Am I missing something?
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Mr. Clint, these things are great for dandelions- walk up to the plant, jam in the tool, press with your foot and lever the root right out, and move right on to the next plant. Saves a ton of time, and you don’t have to keep getting up and down. (Of course, at your age the up-and-down part is easier, if I recall …
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Exactly, especially when you’ve got a ton of weeds.
All sorts of weeds, but mostly dandelions. When you have a ton like I do, it gets to be a pain bending down all the time. That would take forever with just my small lawn.
Any weed is easily extracted.
OK. I came, I saw, I learned. I’m a huge fan of the fiskars line of tools, scissors, etc. I’ve been mowing my grass with their mulching push mower for at least 10 years. My lawn is what a lawn should be. Huge fan. This clip here seals the deal for me:
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Thats the version I have. Mine is primarily used for dandelions and broadleaf plantain. My back and my knees aren’t good enough to weed my yard with a fork. With the fiskars, I either grab a 5 gallon bucket or wheel borrow and walk around the yard plucking weeds. After pulling the weeds I shoot them into the bucket.
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The Fiskars looks easier than mine, since mine requires the twist prior to pull.
I was putting them into a wheelbarrow and then throwing them into the chicken yard. I only do this with ones without a blow flower so I don’t spread more seed around.
I started leaving dandelions this year after learning it’s a major early season nectar source for bees. I read that long ago people intentionally planted them for their cheerful color.
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I just realized the only weed not at our apartments is a dandilion! They are all over Clark County, but guess not all over Hazel Dell. Since moving into here in '89 we have had weeds I do not even know what is, popping up in evetybody’s planting beds. But not 1 dandilion.
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Yeah, I realize the pollination benefits. However, 1) it’s primarily past that time, 2) there are other sources, and 3) wife hates them. 
Bees like the ground ivy, too
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OK, I Amazon’d a new Fiskars four pronged jobby. I put it to the test on dandys, and other taprooted weeds, easy peasy. Then I tested on the toughest weed that I know, Dallisgrass: Dallisgrass Management Guidelines--UC IPM
It took a bunch of grabs with the tool because it’s a creeping weed, but did the job nicely. Very impressive. Thanks all for the recommendation!
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