Our most frequent questions answered!

1. What is the Sticker Burr Roller?
The Sticker Burr Roller is a highly effective tool designed to remove sticker burrs, goat heads, and other prickly nuisances from your yard, gear, and pet fur quickly and easily. It's the ultimate solution to take the frustration out of burr removal.

2. What types of burrs does it pick up?
The Sticker Burr Roller works on most types of burrs, including Burr Clover, Sand Burrs, Grass Burrs, and Puncturevine (Goat Heads). Each burr removed prevents up to 500 new plants from growing in the next season!

3. How does the Sticker Burr Roller work?
As you roll the device, its conveyor screen lifts burrs from the surface and deposits them into a catch tray. This ensures quick, effortless cleanup.

4. What’s the best technique for burr removal?

For best results:

  • Lightly rake the area first to bring buried burrs to the surface.

  • Roll over the affected area multiple times for thorough removal.

  • For terrain with heavy vegetation, you can use our pitchfork attachment to remove burr-covered plants before rolling.

Adding ankle weights to the roller can also help with harder soils or thick foliage.

5. Can it pick up burrs still attached to plants?
While the Roller is designed to pick up loose burrs, we recommend removing plants with green, non-ripe burrs using our pitchfork attachment first. This combination ensures complete removal.

6. Does the Sticker Burr Roller work on rocks or gravel?
The Roller can remove burrs on the surface of rocks or gravel but is less effective for burrs buried between or beneath them.

7. Why is the Residential Push Model lightweight?
At just 10 pounds, the Residential Push Model prevents sinking into sandy soil. For added weight on tougher terrain, you can attach up to 10 pounds of ankle weights to each side of the Roller for increased pressure.

8. What sizes are available?
We offer multiple sizes to suit your needs:

  • Residential Push Model 1.0 (12 inches wide) and 2.0 (18 inches wide) for yards and gardens.

  • Pull-Behind Models 2 Piece, 3 Piece (each 4 feet wide) for larger areas, towable with a hitch.


9. How often do I need to replace the conveyor screen and foam roller?
With normal residential use, the conveyor screen and foam roller sleeve should last about a year. Avoid damage by storing indoors and keeping them away from sharp objects and direct sunlight.

10. Is the handle adjustable?
The Roller does not have a fixed angle, making it adaptable for users of different heights—from children to individuals over 6 feet tall. Taller users operate it at a lower angle, while shorter users hold it at a steeper slant.

11. Does it come fully assembled?
Your Sticker Burr Roller comes mostly assembled with a foam roller, catch basket, and glider screen. Some simple assembly is required, and easy-to-follow instructions are included.

12. How do I find the status of my order?
You’ll receive a FedEx tracking number once your order ships from our Utah warehouse. For additional updates, feel free to reach out directly—we’re happy to assist.

13. What varieties of burrs will the Sticker Burr Roller pick up?
The Sticker Burr Roller is very effective at picking up most anything with a slight burr. The specific varieties that have pulled in the most positive reviews are: Burr Clover, Sand Burrs, Grass Burrs, and the infamous Puncturevine (Goat Head) - the burr that was the driving force behind the amazing Sticker Burr Roller Push Model invention. We understand that every burr/seed picked up can prevent up to 500 new plants in seasons to come.

We also have an amazing tool that is designed to clip on to most any Pitchfork, making it easy to get under and remove the plants. When you combine this tool with our Roller, you have a complete burr removal solution.

14. How often would you recommend replacing the Conveyor Screen and the Sleeved Foam Roller?
With typical residential use, your Conveyor Screen and Sleeved Foam Roller should last around a year. Please be aware that they can both be damaged by rolling over sharp objects or if stored out in the direct, hot sun and weather. 

15. Why is the Residential Push Model so light weight?
The Residential Push Model was intentionally designed to be 10 pounds, due to its propensity to sink in sandy soil. We realize there is some terrain, like hard soil or heavy foliage, that requires more weight/pressure. This can easily be accomplished by strapping workout ankle weights to the side bars of the Roller. It can handle up to 10 pounds per side. There are workout ankle weights with individual 1 pound weights that can be added or removed from the ankle weight strap to create the perfect amount of pressure for your specific situation.

16. How wide is the Roller? 
The Sticker Burr Roller Residential 1.0 Push Model is the first of many models to be released. It was specifically designed to be the perfect width (12 inches) for residential garden areas. In 2024 we released the 2.0 Push Model, and is designed for more coverage areas, with a width of 18 inches. We also have a 4 foot wide Pull Behind Model that is designed to be attached by tow bar to anything with a hitch. It can be utilized as a stand alone unit, or teamed up with other units to create a wider or longer burr removal path. 

17. Is the handle adjustable?
Height is not an issue. We have gentlemen from 6 foot 4 inches tall to a child 3 feet tall running the Sticker Burr Roller. From a functionality standpoint, the Sticker Burr Roller does not have a set angle. As a result a shorter person would simply use it on more of a slant than a taller person would. The angle it is operated at is based on the height of the user. 

18. Do the burrs get picked up while still on the plant?
We highly recommend plant removal with the green/non-ripe burrs, prior to Rolling for the remaining burrs. We have a tool that easily clips on to most any Pitchfork, making it easy to get under and remove the plant. The two techniques combined, create a complete burr removal solution.

19. How does it deposit the stickers into the tray?
The Sticker Burr Roller has a conveyor screen that rolls forward and meets a catching tray, dropping the stickers into the tray as it rolls back around. The parts that will eventually require replacement are the conveyor screen and the foam roller with sleeve.

20. Full Burr Removal Description/ What’s the best technique for burr removal?
We have found that lightly raking the burr area brings covered burrs to the surface. On highly infested areas, and where the burrs have heavy vegetation, it can take several pass overs, along with re-raking the area, to get as many burrs as possible. In addition, we have found that some terrain does require more weighted pressure. A very effective weight solution can be accomplished by adding ankle/wrist weight bands, with up to 10 lbs of pressure each, to the cross bar or the two side handle bars. 

For the heavy vegetation areas, we have just created a tool to attach to a pitch fork that cuts the plant out at the base, preventing the vegetation from covering the burrs. 

Our Story

Looking Forward

Hello, my name is Stacy Stubbs and I am creator, owner and founder of the Sticker Burr Roller, Inspired Tool Design.  As a child I was happiest when running barefoot, sticker burrs have haunted me for a long time. I have made it my personal life‘s work to get rid of these pesky thorns. It’s my passion to continue coming up with new innovative ways to make this tool even better and to create other tools that will assist in getting rid of these noxious weeds.

Gaining our yards and gardens back with the freedom of being pain free. Coming soon is an additional accessory for the sticker bur roller, as well as other tools, and innovative ways for lawn and garden care. I am confident that we can win the battle against these painful and noxious plants.

Purchase a sticker burr roller today and join me and many others in the luxury of a home, yard, and garden free from painful goat head thorns! 

Your family and Pets will thank you.

 Happy trails!

Several years ago my wife and I moved into a home with our 5 children and our yard was overrun by sticker burrs/goat heads. It didn’t take long before our carpet was peppered with burr stickers. Never did it fail in the middle of the night or just plain walking around the house, that we would encounter the piercing pain of one or serval of these goat head stickers.

Being extremely frustrated, I thought to myself, how do I get rid of these goat heads forever?

 

So I decided to focus on a solution.  I tried everything from burning to shop vacuuming, but nothing really worked. I dedicated months and months of different experiments. I now can proudly say that after several years, I feel confident that I have created a tool that works. I have many many happy customers and I am confident that this tool is here to stay!


And so I present to you, a solution I have designed, manufactured, tested and approved, we call it The Sticker Burr Roller and it’s now available for purchase!

WHAT PLANT DO GOAT HEADS COME FROM?

Puncturevine Tribulus terrestris plant

Is an invasive plant known to grow around the world and in dry climates. It is widely known as a noxious burr having long sharp spikes that penetrate through thin shoes, bicycle tires, pets’ feet, and grazing animals. These hurt terribly when stepped on with bare feet.

  • The best strategy in controlling sticker burrs
  • These type of weeds that can quickly spread throughout the lawn and garden if not controlled and can take over your yard
  • Puncturevine is found in pastures, roadsides, waste places, parks, agricultural areas

Get rid of your goat heads & sticker burrs in your yard

WHAT IS THE STICKER BURR ROLLER?

You can find puncture plants all over the world. They come from the Puncturevine Tribulus Terrestris plant, this is a low growing grass-like weed, that germinates in August as the monsoon season comes through, and they will grow until frost in the late fall. This is when the sticker burr roller does its best work By collecting and disposing of the weed seed ensuring the bur seed will never reproduce. Goat heads are known for being difficult to destroy. Thanks to the sticker bur roller destroying sticker burr seeds, weeds, and more are easy, safe and it works!