Anyone know what these are?

[Fargone]

Anyone know what these are? I have a guess or or two, but I'm not absolutely sure. I'm curious if anyone else has them mounted on their trucks. These were mounted on the side of the box on a 1950 Fargo 1 ton.

[Larry Leibhart]

Antique road flares

[NiftyFifty]

Yep, road flares.....seen better days.

[Fargone]

I thought they were road flares. Road hard and hung up wet, too often.

[Plymouthy Adams]

growing up country, we affectionately called smudge pots

 

these almost had a rebirth a few years back in lawn and garden for insect repellant when filled with citronella oil

Edited April 19, 2016 by Plymouthy Adams

[JPP]

Definitely smudge pots, because designed to burn kerosene and you could touch them without getting black smudge on your hands

[Jeff Balazs]

Many moons ago at a outdoor bar facing the Sea of Cortez I saw these re purposed as the burner part of a home made hibachi affair. It was used to grill fresh caught shrimp. I can still see the glow from that clever little contraption and smell the desert ironwood coals the bartender used. Best deal ever. Bought a 5 gallon pail of huge shrimp that were still kicking right off a seiner for $25. Fed the whole bar that evening. .Of course it took most of the evening......as the tiny grill could only do 3 or 4 of these large prawns at a time. I never heard any complaints though.

 

If you don't want em....I got a use for em'.

 

Jeff

[NiftyFifty]

That lead paint on them was likely what keeps the mosquitos down! LOL. I like fire cooked food...but not by road flare thanks...

[Plymouthy Adams]

LET'S SEE no smudge pot please, pass me them smoldering buffalo chips instead...

[Jeff Balazs]

That lead paint on them was likely what keeps the mosquitos down! LOL. I like fire cooked food...but not by road flare thanks...

Any paint was long gone. Besides it has been close to 40 years and I am still kicking.

I do have a couple of miners stoves that could be pressed into service.

 

Jeff

[Todd B]

The 2.5 ton truck I bought from Minnesota had 3 of them under the seat.  I don't believe they were ever used because they big wick had never saw a flame.  My Amish workers brought me some kerosene, we dumped some in and they work great.  Mine are green in color.   I see theme at auctions once in a while.

[Dave72dt]

The ones I had were red, wicks had never been lit and would have been usable at the time. Since then, bottoms have rusted out and have made there way to the scrap yard.

[The Oil Soup]

Those look a little small compared to the smudge pots used to protect the orange trees from freezing in so cal.