Scored BIG on an Antique Glass Insulator Treasure Hunt!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2024
- We love a good treasure hunt, and sometimes you get really lucky. We finally came across a massive amount of 1910-1920s telegraph telephone insulators. in this video we harvest them, and give a few details with the very little knowledge we have of them. You also get a little tour of our collection. We would like to know any info on the ones we found as well as the ones in the collection. Feel free to share what you do with them, or what you would do if you had some! Unfortunately we had to get on the road and were unable to harvest the rest that most definitely await for miles down the tracks for us, hence why we call it the "motherload"
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Nice finds I'm glad there's people who appreciate history
Thanks! One day we hope to find the time to hit some bottle dumps again. We've just been so busy with other stuff lately. The insulator hunts are fun as well!
Same here!
Hi,
Hemingray no. 40 cd 152's were manufactured circa 1915 to 1921. Hemingray no 42 cd 154's were manufactured starting in 1921 and continued to be made through the early 1940's. The blue ones are early 1920's era and the clears 1940's era. Sharp drip points came first and round drip points later. Good luck with your hunts!
Thank you so much for the info! I've been learning a lot about them from you guys and am excited to go find more soon!
@@DecayWithUs you're welcome! I have been collecting insulators from the wild for over 20 years now. It's always really cool to find them laying in the dirt or on an abandoned pole. Let me know if you have any other questions about them and I'll be happy to help.
Matt
Absolutely Matt, thank you!
I love insulators!
I found 2 clear ones today. Nice.
Nice!
The one in the thumbnail is really pretty
I would defiantly have a field day here!!!
im glad you kedpt the insulaters they was jus goin to waste out there
Those things are cool! They use em as decoration in the Powerhouse brewery in Puyallup. That building is super cool as well!
I don't think I've been there, sounds cool. Puyallup has some great stuff! Have you been by the Meeker Mansion? That place is rad
@@DecayWithUs Powerhouse is a big old brick building that used to be a power station. Really close to the Meeker Mansion. I never got around to going inside the Mansion...I should check it out sometime
We only checked it out from the outside, at the time we went it was closed to the public like most places were, but definitely would like to go on a tour!
Got lucky over the summer last year I found some orange and purple and some lime green ones by my buddies barn. Never seen ones that cor before.
That's definitely lucky!
I live on an island that used to have a railroad running all the way through it and the rest of the islands. I have found broken ones on this rail trail but I know they ripped most of the track out but I think if I go where it's private property I might be able to find some. There's just unused fields with the tree line running through.
Great finds, keep on hunting my friend! Those Brookfields are no later than 1912 . A quick way to tell the age of the older Brookfields/Hemingrays is if they have a shop # embossed on top of the dome. To my knowledge that will date them to 1897 at the latest. Brookfields made by the Bushwick glass company were in their heyday 1880'-90's
Thanks for the info 👍🏻 We haven't done very much research admittedly, and actually thought those might have been a bit later than that! Next time we are out that way without a time constraint, we will try and walk a few miles down and pick up some more of the ones we found. No real monetary value in them, but they make good yard art, and it's fun that we found them ourselves
Later Hemingray pieces (the clear ones from 1933 - 1967) typically have a mold number, followed by the year it was made, then a dot for each year the mold remained in use.
I have heard that collecting insulators in Oregon is illegal so I only collect them in Washington, California, Idaho, or Utah.
That's probably mostly to keep people off the tracks. I bet it's "technically" not legal to take them from most planes. I didn't see anything when I googled it but I didn't look hard haha
I wish a score like that. Hey in Chicago, they were throwing rope on lines and pulling them down. The did trying still Cooper wire.That's been 10 yrs ago. I haven't been that way in a while. I think they took lines down because of that.
It's always worth a look to see if any are still there. We wish we had more time at that place, I bet there are plenty more!
The "fang drip" Hemingray-42s are hard to find in really good condition, and they're among the more desirable examples of this otherwise EXTREMELY common style.
lucky
I want to find some but how do I do it? I live in Missouri and I can't find any near me
Missouri is fairly void of them anymore, but that’s not to say there are not places here and there to find them. I’ve been collecting them for 40 years, so I’ve seen a lot disappear.
The native Americans use to make spear heads out of these and the pole companies got tired of them being stolen so they would leave piles of them by the poles for the knappers to take and make their spear heads with
Crazy, we were just reading about that an hour ago!
The Native Americans' tendency to shoot arrows at insulators is exactly why the wood-covered "Wade" were used on lines crossing the plains. There are one or two in captivity with an arrowhead still stuck in the wooden cover.
Have you ever broke a very old and unique insulator?
Not yet!
That copper has a high iron content. Scrapyards consider it dirty and you cant get much for it. Yep, I wondered the same thing.
That would make sense, probably kept cost down even back then. I bet a certain type of "scappers" would spend 36 hours straight gathering it up for $8 🤣
It's called "Copperweld" - supposed to be the best of both worlds, the strength of iron and the conductivity of copper.