dominionator
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Greetings all!
I am an insulator collector from Ottawa ON and have recently done some dump digging in the area mainly to find insulators, but the bottles are starting to catch on...
Anyhow, I've been mucking around for the past 3 years on and off in a dump that is located in the downtown core. I was wondering if other diggers from the Ottawa area have worked this dump. It's on NCC property, and you can park about 50 feet from it in a nice shady area. Know where I mean?
It is in a ravine that is partly man-made. Originally there was a wider channel here and it was narrowed around 1901 or so. Much of the material used in the channel is garbage from around that time. Unfortunately I have turned up shards on the surface. There are remnants of literally thousands of bottles mixed with utility poles, cables, old metal gas tanks, concrete, bricks etc. If you are familiar with this dump, is it worth digging, or is everything just shards here?
I will post pictures later on. I have found sodas, beer, posion, glass jugs, gingers, you name it! Some of the cork tops have mould lines over the tops, much of the glass is aqua or coloured, heavily mineralized in many cases. I think I have also turned up the bottom of a torpedo bottle.
And for the insulator collectors, I have turned up the following:
Broken Brookfield 162's
10 CD31 ESB Co. Battery Rests in Emerald Green, all broken to some degree
Parts of 157's and 159's
Lots of porcelain cleats
Happy hunting!
Chris
I am an insulator collector from Ottawa ON and have recently done some dump digging in the area mainly to find insulators, but the bottles are starting to catch on...
Anyhow, I've been mucking around for the past 3 years on and off in a dump that is located in the downtown core. I was wondering if other diggers from the Ottawa area have worked this dump. It's on NCC property, and you can park about 50 feet from it in a nice shady area. Know where I mean?
It is in a ravine that is partly man-made. Originally there was a wider channel here and it was narrowed around 1901 or so. Much of the material used in the channel is garbage from around that time. Unfortunately I have turned up shards on the surface. There are remnants of literally thousands of bottles mixed with utility poles, cables, old metal gas tanks, concrete, bricks etc. If you are familiar with this dump, is it worth digging, or is everything just shards here?
I will post pictures later on. I have found sodas, beer, posion, glass jugs, gingers, you name it! Some of the cork tops have mould lines over the tops, much of the glass is aqua or coloured, heavily mineralized in many cases. I think I have also turned up the bottom of a torpedo bottle.
And for the insulator collectors, I have turned up the following:
Broken Brookfield 162's
10 CD31 ESB Co. Battery Rests in Emerald Green, all broken to some degree
Parts of 157's and 159's
Lots of porcelain cleats
Happy hunting!
Chris