Living in central florida back in the 70's, and 80's. They would fire these up when it was going to freeze for the Orange Groves. Today......there are no orange groves. They are all converted to subdivisions. Because of Walt Disney World, and everyone who wants to move there for that reason. Miss the smell of the orange juice plants that would be cooking the juice down for concentrate. Also the smell of the orange blossoms in the spring.........long gone.

We used to put three four smudge pots in a circle on a frozen lake in Minnesota and have 20 friends ice fishing. The radiant heat that comes off of them is incredible. Plus it lights the whole area up. Been doing it for 40 years or better. They are wonderful. You get fish all night long comfortably in a sweatshirt when it's 10° out

Great video. Thanks for the review!!

Thanks for the video.

That's cool bud 👍

Awesome! Does it stink like oil when you are running it?

Guess I need to finally pull the trigger, thanks for the video and smaller bank account 😳

nice! always need to get rid of oil

awesome video brother! thank you. Great job!!!

Before California banned these , I can remember my dad getting up wee hrs in the morning and keeping those filled in the orchards to keep the temp up, then we left California in 1970 and moved here to Idaho and brought 2 of them with us, when guys would have a fun day in the winter with our snowmachine club my dad would bring those and people thought that was the coolest thing ,

What is the gauge thickness of the chimney?

Might have to buy one 🤔

Just bought one and love it so far. My only complaint is when running on 2 holes it will occasionally quiet down like it’s about to go out then it’s like it lights up again and will through out a decent flame any ideas on what is causing that? Using diesel fuel.

How big a radius will it heat? If you had it going and it was 23 degrees outside would it keep a radius of 20 feet above freezing or maybe an even bigger radius of 40 feet? I have some peach trees here in S. Carolina that have started blossoming early and we always seem to have a deep freeze in the 20s for 2-3 consecutive nights (after it has been in the 70s and 80s) which always seems to kill 99.9% of the blossoms. I'm looking into smudge pots now.

What was the size and weight of the box it came in? Trying to understand the shipping costs…

Can you refill it while it is burning? Or do you need to smother it then refill and relight?

I know your not in charge of the commercials but one said that the plant based "beyond steak" is "good for you". I say it's highly processed and I've heard it's actually not good for you. Furthermore why in the world is plant-based stuff costs more than meat?? But yeah iam sold on the smuge, awesome

Distance for radiant heat?

Hope it's not galvanised like you mentioned. Thay shit will burn off on the first lighting and the fumes are pretty damn bad for you. Hopefully you meant stainless instead.

What purpose does the side tube serve?

So many haters, what do you expect from miserable people who sit around and eat their boogers. Great review 👍🏻

Hello, I don't understand why you have this smaller diameter tube that connects the combustion chamber with the chimney. What is his use?

Burn used engine oil mix with diesel

Doesnt it smell like kerosene?

These used to be strictly used for keeping a young orchard warm during a frost. The fumes that come off galvanized steel such as zinc oxide which causes a whole heap of health issues including metal fume fever and renal failure. The real kicker from galv steel is the lead oxide which causes retardation in fetuses and a whole host of other growth issues for children and adults. Lead oxide stacks up in your body and causes an almost guaranteed case of brain or lung cancer. The company that originally made the smudge pot knew all of this and had warnings stamped into the chimneys. I'd throw that thing in the trash if I were you and stick to a wood fire or learn how to weld and make one out of carbon , stainless or some other inert alloy. And don't burn your damn motor oil. You may not be able to see or smell the impurities you are releasing into the air, but you're surely poisoning yourself and your neighbors. You think that stuff goes straight up and out into the sky away from you? That's not how this works. The sulfonates used in motor oil are meant to stay wet trapping the impurities inside them. People wonder why they had a stroke in their mid fifties. Because you did stupid shit without understanding the tools around you.

Thats a heater. my family used smudge pots in the 30's, 40's, 50's, into the 70's to keep the bugs off out cattle, in pasture and in barns. No flame just smoke. What you have is a heater.

Price? Packaging? Shipping? Your review didn’t cover anything

Just bought one and love it so far. My only complaint is when running on 2 holes it will occasionally quiet down like it’s about to go out then it’s like it lights up again and will through out a decent flame any ideas on what is causing that? Using diesel fuel.

Just bought one and love it so far. My only complaint is when running on 2 holes it will occasionally quiet down like it’s about to go out then it’s like it lights up again and will through out a decent flame any ideas on what is causing that? Using diesel fuel.