✅ SOLVED Is it a bomb?

[Igyjastabay]

Sure looks like one. Really, I have know clue. It's about the size of a volley ball. All cast iron. Its hollow as well. Any help would be appreciated. thx.

 

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[Panache]

Looks like a smudge pot.

 

[mick56]

These were also used as road flares, kerosene was the fuel.

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  A great old Dietz Smudge Pot #750 - 751, retains its original chain and strong red color. Smudge Pots were used in the 1940's thru the 1960's as Roadside Hazard Markers. Uses Kerosene.
  
  Excellent vintage condition--Used. No dents that I can find. Some rust and scratches. Needs cleaning.
  
  Measures about 9" tall and weights about 5 pounds.

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Overview

• Vintage item from the 1940s
• Material: metal
• Feedback: 88 reviews
• Only ships to United States from Hudson, Wisconsin.

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[Discrimination Dave]

Isn't that one of those old torches the highway department used to use before the flashing dc powered yellow lights? Back in the early '70s when I was a little fart I used to think they were bombs. I would see them on barricades and road closed signs. How big is it? bigger than a soft ball but smaller than a bowling ball? That's about the size i remember those things.

 

[Discrimination Dave]

Dang Mick! you beat me to it. I was typing as you were posting.

 

[Igyjastabay]

That's funny because I found it half buried in the thicket along side my road. These were before my time. Very cool.

 

[Discrimination Dave]

first one i have seen in over 40 years. Id forgotten all about them.

 

[BosnMate]

I'd forgotten them as well. They were all over the place when I was a kid. Burning and unattended, in conjunction with barriers, warning about holes in the road, bridge out, etc.
Wow, how times have changed. Can't go off and leave an open fire now.

 

[ivan salis]

rail roads used em-- road crews used em --and orange field /fruit growers whose plants would be effected by the cold used em to ward the cold off their groves as well.

 

[Discrimination Dave]

I'd forgotten them as well. They were all over the place when I was a kid. Burning and unattended, in conjunction with barriers, warning about holes in the road, bridge out, etc.
Wow, how times have changed. Can't go off and leave an open fire now.

I saw in the paper last week that a young mother went to jail for allowing her 7 year old boy to go to the park unattended with nothing but a cell phone. Imagine what they would do to you now days for an open fire over a pot-hole in the road.
Nothing against the old country, but kids can still run free over here.