How many remember these

[chim]

If you remember these, you're probably around 70 or so:

 

[DustyRusty]

Early design of Molotov Cocktail

 

[cmyoch]

I found two of those in my uncle's shop when I was cleaning it a few months ago. Who knows where he got them.

 

[ken erickson]

The good old days of no seat belts, non-padded dashboards and pre orange barrels, orange safety cones and fines double in work zones!

 

[85Hokie]

O hell yeah - they still make em for bugs and whatnot.

But I remember them during road construction on the city streets!

 

[GeoHorn]

RUNWAY LIGHTING! (especially useful for when dropping spies and counter-insurgents into enemy territory…. or picking up a load of …well…whatever….)

 

[chim]

RUNWAY LIGHTING! (especially useful for when dropping spies and counter-insurgents into enemy territory…. or picking up a load of …well…whatever….)

Air America?

 

[fried1765]

If you remember these, you're probably around 70 or so:

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Used as roadside construction flares.

 

[NCL4701]

Never used one but recall them being standard equipment for heavy trucks that were required to carry flares in case of a roadside breakdown after dark. Seem to think they were called smudge pots (not sure if that was a colloquial term or proper name) and they used kerosene and a wick.

By the time I started driving on paved roads, construction zones were mostly marked by the orange/white crossbucks that ran flashing yellow lights powered by a lantern battery.

Edit: And I never understood why people called the orange/white things with the yellow light “crossbucks” since they looked like a saw horse, not a cross.

 

[woodman55]

I remember seeing a few, when I was a kid. They were for road markers/construction.

 

[skeets]

When you kicked them over some times they leaked out and make a big fire,, or so I was told by the big kids

 

[Lil Foot]

If you remember these, you're probably around 70 or so:

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Damn, you're good!

 

[dlsmith]

When I worked at the family construction company back in the '70s, I occasionally had the job of going out to jobsites and check to make sure they were all still lit and refill them with kerosene

 

[chim]

When I worked at the family construction company back in the '70s, I occasionally had the job of going out to jobsites and check to make sure they were all still lit and refill them with kerosene

It was probably the early '70s when the blinking battery lights showed up here. Lost track of barricade lights between the early '50s and the late '60s.

I remember being a kid in perhaps first grade in 1955-ish when a contractor did underground work in front of our place. An old guy (at my age back then, old could have been 30) came through and maintained the old smudge pots. I kinda doubt that after he left I would have poked around the flame with a stick.

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

I remember them then and still remember them and buy them new today.
Get them new still just cheaper quality.
Today we call them smudge pots and used to keep the black flys off us in the summer they just be made out of cheaper stamped tin though.
A little lamp oil or mixture of old engine oil/gas and they will smoke for hours. Not good the the environment but have to survive the black flies somehow in Canada.

 

[Runs With Scissors]

Huh....well, I'll be damned.

I had no idea those things were used as flares.

In the Marines I/we used them on the firing range to "blacken" our front site post. That's what I thought they were made for...LOL

(However, I am quite sure that .GOV probably paid $20,000 each for them)

 

[Biker1mike]

I have two in my shed. Been many, many years since I lite them.
Pretty sure some relative "borrowed" them from NYS DOT .

 

[imnukensc]

Saw them all the time as a kid for marking road construction projects. We called them flambeaus.