Does Anyone Know What This Oil Can Would Have Been Used For?
Aug 20, 2020 11:42:14 #
We found this old oil can at an Estate Sale. The lady thought it was used for heating a chicken coop but I could not find any information on it. It has "HUDSON" Stamped on the top. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Aug 20, 2020 11:58:08 #
Lorima, there is a Hudson heating company in the States (google it) perhaps if you sent them a shot of it, they may be able to tell you what it is!
Aug 20, 2020 12:01:34 #
Hudson was a brand of oil decades ago. It appears to have some sort of pouring spout. I assume it could have had multiple uses, but to heat a chicken coop? That I doubt...Likely worth a little. Would be worth more if it was in better shape...
Aug 20, 2020 12:10:30 #
Just curious, have you taken the lid off? The valve may be used to let air in.
Aug 20, 2020 12:47:20 #
Doddy wrote:
Lorima, there is a Hudson heating company in the States (google it) perhaps if you sent them a shot of it, they may be able to tell you what it is!
Thank you.
Aug 20, 2020 12:48:58 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
Hudson was a brand of oil decades ago. It appears to have some sort of pouring spout. I assume it could have had multiple uses, but to heat a chicken coop? That I doubt...Likely worth a little. Would be worth more if it was in better shape...
Thanks, I was just kind of curious to see what is was.
Aug 20, 2020 12:49:54 #
Bultaco wrote:
Just curious, have you taken the lid off? The valve may be used to let air in.
No I haven't. I will try iy.
Aug 20, 2020 13:52:42 #
I would bet on a light kerosene or gasolene, something with sufficient volatiles. A century ago, gasolene would have had more low end volatiles because of the simple distillation process. If you just opened the cap on a warm day, the rapid escape of very light end product could have spontaneously ignited.
Aug 21, 2020 06:26:36 #
For Kerosene or lamp oil. The flap is a funnel. Open the valve and pour.
Aug 21, 2020 08:12:43 #
Lonnie77 wrote:
For Kerosene or lamp oil. The flap is a funnel. Open the valve and pour.
This is the most sensible Suggestion of use I have seen at this time!!
The little petcock will allow air to enter the can so the flow of liquid will be smooth and not glug-glug.
Remember the old Juice, condensed milk cans that you punched two holes so the juice would pour freely ?
However the name Hudson leads me toward the old Hudson bug sprayers, this could be used to transfer the bug spray to the smaller hand pumped sprayers!!
Aug 21, 2020 08:20:38 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
Hudson was a brand of oil decades ago. It appears to have some sort of pouring spout. I assume it could have had multiple uses, but to heat a chicken coop? That I doubt...Likely worth a little. Would be worth more if it was in better shape...
Well, if you were able to ignite the oil in that can, it would certainly heat up the chicken coop.
Aug 21, 2020 12:46:39 #
Fogman
Loc: Fields Landing, California
Hudson manufactured incubators, brooders, waterers, and other poultry related items as well as sprayers mostly used for agricultural purposes. The company is still in business but their focus has changed. If you write them and send them pictures, in my experience, they won't be much help. Their product line was mostly made up of galvanized tin products. They were well made and tended to have a long and useful lifespan. My Hudson brooder is more than seventy years old and still works perfectly. That said, if you contact them you'll find out that "we no longer manufacture those products and we don't have any parts". Your experience with them may turn out to be different from mine, I had to make my own parts, but I think their older products have out lived their staff and the company has moved on. Plastics have replaced metals.
Aug 21, 2020 13:14:32 #
Lonnie77 wrote:
For Kerosene or lamp oil. The flap is a funnel. Open the valve and pour.
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