Old Lines-2

By Chris Sweryda; posted February 7, 2007

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Notice the old stir-up (correct me if I'm spelling wrong) on the main line-wire. The idea of these was that if the connection ever came loose and heated up, it would burn off the stir-up instead of the main line wire; which would bring down the whole span. The other interesting piece of hardware is that little bar sticking out from that insulator on the cross-arm side. I have no idea what they're called, but they I've only seen them on old HBMS poles. The purpose of them was that if the fargo (wire connector that's screwed to the stir-up in this picture) had to be taken off the line wire for any reason, it would be attached to this little bar instead of just being allowed to hang loose. This method was used on all of HBMS's transformer, tap-off and corner poles.

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