Bill Ostrander turned Paul Greaves and I on to the line that Howard Banks and many other collectors had hunted back in the 1970's which used the recycled PG&E M-2842 Fred Locke specimens in Southern Oregon. We were wanting to walk the line and collect the manufacturing dates from shards left behind by others for Paul's data base on Fred Locke date stamps . We all felt there was little hope of finding anything since the line was basically hunted out by numerous other collectors long before but we figuerd it would be worth it just for historical/ archaeological research reasons . Apparently back in the 1970's people were actually finding whole insulators on this line and even in the early 1990's members of the Jefferson State club found some repairable ones that were pretty nice . Previous hunters pretty much cleaned up the line but somehow overlooked a very few things.... one of which was this damaged specimen [click here]. It was pretty well broken and the pieces were scattered widely requiring hours of raking and digging but I was diligent and found most of it . The site where we found it had clearly been hunted before by other collectors but I guess they left this one behind because the pieces were so scattered. Most people will not spend a whole day looking for the parts of a damaged insulator at one pole or site .... Anyhow I finally had the joy of finding one of these 110 year old classics in the wild myself !! Sadly though, there seems to be little else for us to find on the line other then scattered shards ... Where is my time machine ???