Very old and heavy Watering Can - Old Roofing Tool | ||
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Posted 11 years ago
ho2cultcha
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This is not a watering can for plants, but one which was used a long time ago to cool asphalt on roofs. It's quite a bit larger than the garden watering cans and it's made of more heavy duty metal. I have some other old roofing tools around the nursery as well. They all make interesting garden decorations, in my opinion. what say you?
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As an old roofer ,I can appreciate the watering can.It was probably modified at the end of the spout for water.It was most likely used for pouring coal tar pitch into pitch pockets at flashing details. Along with being hot to the touch, 450 F, the green smoke it would give off would burn and peel your skin. The fair skinned Irish and German guys suffered the worst.Us Italian Americans not so much, but it still hurt.
Ron is correct on this one. Water and hot tar is not a good mix. You didn't even want sweat to drip into the tar kettle, it would burst and spit hot tar at you.
Loved that hot tar smell!
yes, i agree that it was used for pouring hot pitch, although i'm not sure why it has the sprinkler top to it. it does have hardened pitch/tar inside it. it looks like the sprinkler top is a permanent part to it too - which has confused me.
It looks like the sprinkler head screws in. That jam nut is an electrical conduit/fitting nut.