Steve MacLellan

Fed up with the weeds on his organic operation,
third-generation farmer Ron Gleim went to work on a better way to battle
the problem plants.

But
what started with testing scalding water on the vexing
vegetation around his yard led to something bigger: the X-Steam-inator.

The
patented machine — a prototype of which looks a bit like a Zamboni — is
designed to destroy weeds with a spray of hot steam, not herbicides.