Here is a clearer example of what Dave Dahle was describing in the previous photo. Dave is correct in that the pole he is showing, and hard to see because of trees, is the last known example in use of this style of line ...
Posted by Mike Parker on August 15, 2009 - 0.6kb
... is made of iron, and there are also suspensions. Has anyone idea of what type of line is this ...
Posted by Nora Coppo on August 15, 2009 - 0.3kb
Hard to see the pole - this was grabbed from Google Maps' Street View function. You should be able to make out the fact the crossarm is wider than usual, the crossbraces are inverted, and most importantly, there are ...
Posted by (private) on August 15, 2009 - 0.5kb
... standing there doing their job with suspensions now carrying the lines. I have no idea when the update took place ...
Posted by (private) on August 14, 2009 - 1.9kb
... the piece of mud in in this mix of suspensions? It's the brown with a side second one down. If I knew at the time I took the pic it was different ...
Posted by Roger Poole on August 2, 2009 - 0.4kb
Although there are many ways to secure the insulator to a tree this depicts the method using manufactured hardware for the task. Wire rope of varying lengths have one end double wraped around the porcelain split ring ...
Posted by Lou Hall on August 1, 2009 - 0.9kb
Here is a better picture of the white baby Hewlett suspension I acquired at an auction yesterday. It is marked on the side PAT SEPT ......(I can not read the rest). I also acquired a brown baby Hewlett along with this ...
Posted by Fred Collier on July 26, 2009 - 0.2kb
I found these porcelain suspension insulators in Wantagh, NY. On one side of the metal, it is stamped with the number "2852". Directly below that it says "10,000 LB". Above that, written on the ...
Posted by Christopher Amodeo on July 26, 2009 - 0.4kb
... substantial pieces of Hewlett style suspensions made by Thomas ...
Posted by Zac Mirecki on July 25, 2009 - 0.1kb
... interesting feature not seen in other suspensions is a channel formed in one side of the cap where the cotter key goes. Has anybody else seen this ...
Posted by Jim Decker on July 18, 2009 - 0.1kb
... . The glaze looks similar to other 0-B suspensions I have ...
Posted by Jim Decker on July 18, 2009 - 0.2kb
... Suspension album for details on the old suspensions ...
Posted by Jim Decker on July 18, 2009 - 0.3kb
... porcelians, a good number of hanging suspensions, spolls, all the glass and all the hardware. The guy only want to sell to one person the entire ...
Posted by Roger Poole on July 17, 2009 - 1.0kb
... porcelians, a good number of hanging suspensions, spolls, all the glass and all the hardware. The guy only want to sell to one person the entire ...
Posted by Roger Poole on July 17, 2009 - 1.0kb
One of my favorite power poles situated on a hill in the field behind my house. It is just old enough (circa 1953) to have been installed by the Mountain States Power Co. The tap line ran up the hill to a transformer ...
Posted by Mike Parker on July 11, 2009 - 1.1kb
Another pole with all glass suspension disks. They look so cool in service! So much better than those new 'rubber-dubber" chickens. On the 5 mile long Tillamook, OR. P.U.D. peninsula line to Cape Mears.
Posted by Mike Parker on July 8, 2009 - 0.2kb
All the suspension disks on this pole are glass. On the Tillamook, OR. P.U.D. 5 mile peninsula line.
Posted by Mike Parker on July 8, 2009 - 0.1kb
A close up of the old suspension disks on the 5 mile long 2 phase open Y line. I don't think I have ever seen this old type of trunnion before that is clamping the wires on this tight curve. These definately date back ...
Posted by Mike Parker on July 8, 2009 - 0.5kb
A closer view of the previous suspension pole on the 5 mile long 2 phase open Y line. On the Tillamook P.U.D. system.
Posted by Mike Parker on July 8, 2009 - 0.1kb
A view of a corner (one of many) on the 5 mile long 2 phase open Y power line that follows the road along the west shore of picturesque Tillamook Bay to the beach community of Cape Mears on a peninsula. The line was ...
Posted by Mike Parker on July 8, 2009 - 0.7kb
Here is the new line of Seves-Sediver suspension insulators. Note the Outerib style. I believe this is a new style believed to be better in the fog.
Shown in the photograph are a Standard profile, Fog type profile, ...
Posted by Bill Meier on June 28, 2009 - 0.5kb
BLACK GLAZE MUSHROOM STYLE INSULATOR . RARE and Seldom seen, Hard to find, END CAP or DEAD END Insulator, Unknown Maker . Black Glaze with Gray and Brown mixed in . Giant at 7 inches tall and 7 inches wide, this baby is ...
Posted by Daniel Nieroda on June 21, 2009 - 0.5kb
A few of the coloured pieces that I've found the last couple months.
The photograph does not show it well but the colour of small suspension is a striation of tan and greenish-orange. The CP 'inkstamp' looks like it ...
Posted by James Mulvey on June 21, 2009 - 0.4kb
... recently sorted through several hundred suspensions keeping just a few for display. Who'd thunk it that a suspension, particulary a brown one, had any ...
Posted by James Mulvey on June 15, 2009 - 0.4kb
A Mountain States Power Co. pole taken near Oceanlake, OR. in the 1950's. The suspension disks on the 24,000 volt line on top are nearly pulled sideways from the tight curve on the wires along Hwy. 101. The old silver ...
Posted by Mike Parker on June 10, 2009 - 0.4kb
