Brrr...couple cold weather finds

[Yooper14]

Where did the balmy digging weather go?? I woke up to an inch of snow this morning...

Got out to dig yesterday. I've been trenching in the newer end of my dump. Based on the coins I've found, it's the late 30s and maybe some early 40s even. I'm mainly scratching for some nice milks. Found one milk yesterday that I'd never seen before - An EAGLE DAIRY COMPANY with an embossed eagle on the shoulder. That's cool! It's too bad the dump has so much metal in it...it's not very nice to milks.

 

[Yooper14]

Here's the other interesting find. I like getting insulators, and have found some nice ones in my dump that you don't normally find on the lines. This one is different...maybe "insulators rule" can tell me more. I would guess it's a later style, but it is ceramic. Any ideas. It's labeled with "White's 504" on the top.

 

[Yooper14]

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[Yooper14]

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[RICKJJ59W]

That's a ceramic ground the wires go into the slots, its New real new.

 

[Yooper14]

I figured as much...

 

[Brains]

It looks like an 80's or late 70's to me cause it's brown, today most everything is wite
bleugh!
maybe if it was glass i could help you out but it is a ground wire strain. : know of a big stompin one thats holdin a dead pole up. I would get it but that might tople the pole over and to an insulator collector like me it's a sad sight.[][]

 

[CALDIGR2]

Actually, that brown glazed strain insulator dates from the 1960s, or before. At that time, most companies were changing to production of the sky grey color of porcelain insulators. Many hundreds of thousands of them remain in service because there is no point in replacing them unless they fail or the line is reconstructed and updated.

Strains were use to sectionalize low voltage electrical lines and guy wires. In other words, they would be cut in a wire to offer an open point between two transformers on a 120/240v secondary circuit, or as a method of preventing the grounding of guy wires on distribution circuits.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Thats what I said Mike hahaha!

 

[Yooper14]

Yeah, I'd says 70s and 80s is too much of a stretch. I did find this in a 30s-40s layer of a dump with nothing else to indicate anything later in there, so I'd say 40s-60s. Interesting info, folks. I love learning!!
Yooper