walked a creek bed today

[bottlechaser62]

Today was the first really good day in a long long time to walk in the woods behind my house. I ve been wanting to get into the creek bed and do some more scratching around as last year I found 2 insulators in the creek and couldnt figure out where they came from. This subdivision was built about 7 yrs ago and most of the creek was reconstructed or re-routed to build homes on. In any case, today I started out where the creek begins on this end of the subdivision and put my rubber boots on with my long handled scratcher and just walked down the middle of the creek. Again, more insulators and this time a few shards of BIM bottles and a busted milk bottle(plain) so it turned out to be a very exciting day. Although no whole bottles, these pieces came from somewhere......now I just gotta figure out where. Still have no idea where these insulators came from. There is a road but its about 200 yards up the hillside. Here's some pics.

 

[bottlechaser62]

insulators

 

[bottlechaser62]

busted milk

 

[bottlechaser62]

insulators found about every 50 ft or so

 

[blobbottlebob]

Insulators are cool. ANything old made of a thick chunk of glass is worth putting in a window sill for awhile at least. Congrats.

 

[RedGinger]

Don't know what state you live in, Bottlechaser, but creek walks are great. Here you can find interesting fossils and there's always the possibility of an arrowhead. Insulators are fun to find. We drove along some train tracks last winter looking for any that had fallen down from the polls. Joe has found a few unique, very pretty ones that way. Please post a pic when you get a chance to clean them up. I'd be interested in what types you found. My friend Kate (Pyshodoodle), a member here, found a great insulator not too long ago. There's a good story to it, but I'm not sure where it is located.

 

[logueb]

Creeks are always good spots to look. Chances are they were too wet to be cultivated. The insulators every 50 feet or so may indicate a single line like an old telegraph line. Seems like they transmitted and received on the same wire. The poles could have long sine rotted away leaving the glass insulators. Keep looking and posting. Buster.

 

[bottlechaser62]

Heres some cleaned up pics of the insulator, etc. Last day of vacation and back to work tommorrow so gonna try to get back the creek bed here in a bit.

 

[bottlechaser62]

Here's a close up of the bottle neck I found in the creek.........definitely BIM with some really cool seed bubbles and a few stretched ones. By the way Redginger, I live in eastern Jefferson County of Louisville Kentucky, mostly farmland before the houses went up.

 

[bottlechaser62]

The insulators appear to be pretty common, Hemingray #40 and Hemingray #42 are the blue ones and the clear one is a Hemingray #10.