Never get tired of coming across a hefty cache of insulators - regardless of age or condition? If so, then you're just like me - and you may appreciate these photos. Following a crudely drawn map dictated to me over the phone by a friend of the family whom found it while working in the oil industry, I was able to locate a fairly hefty pile of crossarms and insulators in the back of a farmer's field in central S.W. Ontario just a few days ago. The best part of the deal, short of the fact that they were free for the taking, is the fact that nearly all the insulators present were telephone styles - CD 122 Hemingray & Dominion, as well as CD 203 Armstrongs - and something I don't often (or ever) get the chance to experience finding in the wild. Telephone lines here in Ontario have been so well cleaned up that even a single stray 203 has never before crossed my path in hunting the wilds 'round these parts. Imagine my reaction when I instantly filled my quota of someday finding just a single one, and then instantly shattered it, as well. I can now say I've found many hundreds of CD 203s in the wild. Only keeping a few, I think I might hold onto that crudely drawn map, and pass it down to some beginning collector, not unlike myself, someday down the road. In the meantime, rest well knowing that the dissassembled remains of at least one rural telephone line are safe & sound in a deciduous woodlot, waiting for some collector to come take a piece of it's history home. |