Hot Rods What exactly are these? Anyone have some?

What exactly are the 3 canisters in this photo? Im looking to buy a set just like these to mount on my truck but dont know the brand or what im looking for.

If you have one like it for sale let me know!

 

Road Flare Cannisters

 

yup . . . .

Lynn W

 

Were those part of state owned vehicle safety equipment package or something like that?

 

Remember when those kerosene pots were used around road construction work; before they had the blinkey yellow lights.

 

smudge pot

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Why do you want them when you dont even know what they are? I see them often and have some but not for sale

 

My deuce


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I often find them at farm auctions.

 

I had a chance to actually use mine years ago. On a dark night with no traffic they can be seen for half a mile ... they use diesel fuel, and "Tiki Torch" wicks work if you want operational but illegal to use safety equipment.

 

Why are they illegal?

 

All the big rigs had to carry them and the guys that worked on the rigs carried them also. Replaced by the round reflector on a little stand and then by the triangles you still see today.

 

they will 'MELT' into the road surface (blacktop)

 

A few road flares and warning triangles in the kit aren't a bad idea. Those torches would be waaay better than nothing.

 

I have used one as a space heater in a Duck blind.

 

I hope you had lots of ventilation. I suspect the fumes are deadly

 

There's nothing worse than a poorly ventilated duck blind ..

 

I didn't know about the flares. At first I was thinking of the old emergency oil/water/gas can sets:

 

Kerosene flares, a kerosene burning lamp. Often seen at night at road construction sites along the barricades to warn off drivers. Tow trucks carried them and so did emergency crews, police cars, railroad workers etc.