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$130 with 4 occupants.

There's a far bigger hunt coming up with more cinematic shots & badass pieces.

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They're just insulators. We throw these away by the many thousands at work lol!!

We also just toss them in the old pole holes and fill it in with dirt.

@@VariacManiac Lol sell them instead

@@VariacManiac sometimes i have to throw insulators into the junk yard lol i save as much as i can

@@SodiumInduction-hv You gotta save some, just not all the duplicates, because it takes up a lot of space.

I watched some of your videos, & you sound extremely young. I'm a bit worried you're doing electrical experiments without parental supervision. The equipment you're messing with have killed many hobbyists, including experienced professionals. I would wait until you're older to be messing around with deadly power supplies.

@@VariacManiac i know what i am doing and there is a long safety protocol for de energizing and energizing equipment. (i also have experience since i’m an apprentice lineman)

@@SodiumInduction-hv I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't want ya getting hurt. By the sound of your voice in your videos, you don't sound any older than 13 years. That means you legally cannot have a full time job.

@@VariacManiac i’m a volunteer bro :]

@@SodiumInduction-hv A volunteer position is good, definitely not an apprenticeship lol, but it's a good foot in the door, plus it's still likely to be 16+ to get into a power related position. You should still be in regular school full time as well. Probably 6th or 7th grade. It's good that you want to learn the trade nonetheless. Keep on keeping on 🤙.

Unlikely. Some poles have nasty preservatives such as creosote.

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I collect the power shit when I can. There's a huge compilation of finds from this particular project to be formed into ome massive video with cinematic shots & music. May be a few more months as this project is ongoing.

@@VariacManiac Sounds good! It’ll probably take me a little while to edit my videos as well. (I have about 8 insulator hunts waiting to be turned into videos!) Will be looking forward to the compilation video!

​@@VariacManiaci would like to elevate my game sir and you are an inspiration, if i may ask, aside obviously from having the right equipment, is the core fundamental concept of home projects to transform the power served to the home back up to its capacity at the hv lines? are you stepping up your home service back to what it was at say the substation?

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Lots more is coming down. Hope to get a video out of it all with extras this summer or fall

Everything has a breakdown resistance. At a certain voltage, anything can conduct.

These insulators are used & are being thrown away. Plus I got permission to get anything that comes down from this line.

@@VariacManiac ha ok

They're pretty Ridgid. Atleast most of them.

That's unfortunate. Finding broken pieces are a real shame at times. The insulators on this line are not particularly rare, but I still grab them for the hell of it. There are glass suspensions that are coming down, so I'm going to grab more of those if I can. This contractor uses the old pole holes to discard the majority of them. Including polymers.

@@VariacManiac Been wanting to get some glass suspensions in my collection, but they historically used porcelain around here. They recently changed to glass... and then one line was upgraded again and switched back to porcelain. The biggest heartbreaker is near the site of an old substation. Scattered across a few areas are sites where they dumped various stuff, and I've found pieces of a couple rare porcelain insulators. On the side of a slope uphill of the substation is a huge pile of broken suspension insulator remains- they appeared to have never actually been put into service, and I presume they were dumped there when the substation was demolished. I was able to get a few mostly complete insulators doing some careful digging and piece matching, but due to the nature of how they were disposed of it was hard to find cases where all the pieces of any one insulator were located in the same place.

Thanks for watching!

What are they good for, when the power company pulls the poles?

@@tyspears9997 They're to be discarded as new polymer insulators & steel monopoles are to replace them. Usually they're just tossed in the old pole hole.

@@VariacManiac Ok, but my question is, what do you do with them? I have a lot of the old glass insulators. I make lights and things with them. But what do people typically do with the ceramic ones? Just collect, or??

@@tyspears9997 I collect the power pieces typically. If it's a brand or year make that I don't have I pick them up. I'd like to make a huge display pole or three framed up with different power pieces.

But I'm sure your on to bigger and better transformers

@@ac60hz120 Yeah, mots are kind of a thing of the past, & I really only use them for current limiting, & even that's being phased out very soon. They don't have good duty.

I got mine from a retired high voltage lab. I'd search ebay or scrap yards if possible. Certain companies sell transformers as well.

Looking foward to seeing more of these videos! ​@VariacManiac

Yessir! I got some vids I'll put together in a bit.

i got a big flat cable spreader back at november. i simply got it from the grid company and i picked it up at their substation.