I think its a great idea to try to sell those. What if you even sold them as a "weld together kit", cut everything out and ship it off flat on a pallet so beginners without the tools or skill to cut it yet can weld it together.
Logistically speaking, this would dramatically reduce shipping costs as you could fit more product in each shipment rather than sending each product fully assembled.
Nice work. I have run these for a long time being from citrus country. First, the tube that the other people mention is a re-burn tube. The tank is evaporating the fuel with heat and burning it in the tank and the vertical tube. It want's more air than is available causing a low pressure in the tank. The return pipe from the stack will suck hot exhaust from the stack and allow it to return to the tank blowing hot exhaust gas on the oil making the oil or fuel hotter and vaporize more. You might have to experiment with return pipe size and where it blows on the oil for best results. Just look at the original smudge pot for ideas. I have seen them without a return tube, and they smoke more and don't get roaring or fluttering. I have also run them on straight gas as well. The easiest way to start oil is pour a pint of gas on top of the oil and light it. A longer stack pipe does not always work better because of increased draw in the tank. It has to be tuned. Water in the bottom of the tank is very bad. It will rot the tank bottom out too. It sits at the bottom until one day you run it low on fuel, then the water boils. It will blow hot burning oil out simulating a plane crash fire. The hot burning oil will flow out like hot lava on fire. If it were in a shop, good luck.
Smudge Pots or Road Torch - Nostalgia was used on road construction, etc. The burning wick at the top would alert drivers and to warn drivers of dangers at night I remember back prior to the 1960s these could be found. anywhere you needed a road or railroad warning signal at night. Filled with kerosene the flame would burn high at first and then settle down. Smudge Pots were an early safety barrier. Smudge Pots lined the side of the road at night where construction was taking place. in the late ’60s and sometime in the 70’s they were replaced by Battery Operated Lights.
When I was in the military (USMC air wing) we would clean our bomb rack equipment with a boiler made out of a 55 gallon drum and a enclosed furnace(?) to heat the water using diesel as fuel. We had a drip feed to keep it burning. It made short work of the cleaning process (cleaned gunpowder residue off of the bomb release equipment. [feet and breaches]) It made short work of the cleaning. Not as pretty as yours, but effective.
That's an AWESOME design! All the other designs I've seen recently include another stack going up the opposite side of the fuel fill tube that allegedly helps to draw fumes so it burns better? Maybe *yours* burns so well because the exhaust stack is shorter? - - If you don't mind, I'd like to offer a couple of suggestions: • If someone were to fill this with several gallons of fuel and (for whatever reason) decided to shut it down to move to a different location, there's really no way to empty the fuel reservoir. So maybe if you were to make the *bottom* of the fuel reservoir convex (same shape as the upper) and have it taper to about a 2" square on the bottom, you could weld-in a 'bung' and thread it to accept a standard 1/4"NPT fitting. With a small 1/4" ball valve on the bottom, you could simply turn it open and drain the unused fuel back into your container after the Smude Pot is completely cooled-down • The other suggestion is to rap a rag around about a 2-foot long wooden stick and soak it with Charcoal Lighter Fluid, light it - and simply drop it down the stack. Don't know if it'll just immediately snuff out - but worth a try, at the very least? Thank you very much, for sharing this content! On a scale of 1-5, I rate this video: 👊👊👊👊👊 - You *more than* earned a new Subscriber with this one! Ha!
Well done!!! I would be interested in just a basic model. Maybe squared off top so I could rig up something to vent to a “chimney”… in case I put it on a patio with a gazebo. Looks a lot better than these cheap thin ones you find online.
Nice build, design note, the American flag should have the stars facing up or forward, giving the impression that the flag is always advancing, never retreating.
Your Fab skills are 🔥💯🔥 my friend. U could film a 20+min video on u sanding a piece of wood and I'd still watch it from start to finish. I know someone already ask this but can u test to see how long like a gallon of diesel will burn for, just to get an estimate...
Would like to buy the pre cut kit when you have some, all cuts done, shipped, say what that would be, same/similar as you have built and shown. Ready and Thank you from Texas
Very bad ass man. I definitely dig watching your projects outside of the truck fab and what not as well. P.S. I dig the graphics on it 🤘🏼 Keep the cool content comin brother.
I have an old smudge pot from the orchards in California I save bacon grease and old cooking oil in it went to go burn it a little while back and water had gotten in there and 10 gallons of oil and water start boiling it gets kind of scary😅
The idea of this construction is to produce heavy smoke. This is a very stupid idea, although common, because its produces very toxic and carcinogenic smoke.
