found a dump site with lots of insulators

actionstriping · Nov 28, 2009

We found a dump site with lots of glass insulators most of them are hemingray and are clear and green or aqua colored and some have just stars and some have just a B should we collect all we can thanks for the help. we found this dump in New Mexico

DigginThePast · Nov 28, 2009

Sounds pretty cool. Can you post pics? We like pics.

actionstriping · Nov 28, 2009

will take pics tomorrw we are going back and realy look at whats there

actionstriping · Nov 28, 2009

do i want to keep the wood and post that are with the insulators?

DigginThePast · Nov 29, 2009

actionstriping said:
do i want to keep the wood and post that are with the insulators?

I think that would simply be an individual decision. Typically I go just for the insulators. This past March I found a pole with the cross member with 8 insulators still mounted. I thought this would look cool in my game room and managed to collect the whole thing. Got it home and into the game room to clean up a little and figure out how to mount. As everything started to warm up the ants started to come out.

Everything went outside to remove the insulators. ALL the wood went to the dump.

GlassyEyed · Nov 30, 2009

Nice finds...I'd just go for the glass. Most brackets or wood pins are not worth much anyways except to a very few people; and then only certain ones.

Post some pics when you get a chance. I'd love to see em' and will help you identify.

72cheyenne · Dec 19, 2009

Absolutely get all the insulators that your can. 95% of them are probably common, but there is always the chance of finding a real, real good one. Especially get the Star embossed ones and the B (Brookfield) embossed ones. Get some pics up and I can ID them for you and give an approximate value. Check out this site. http://www.insulators.info/

fistfulladirt · Dec 24, 2009

I have several of the colored and clear Hemmingrays, I couldn't give em away at a garage sale we had. They are pretty tho. ffd

Harry Pristis · Dec 24, 2009

Fistfulladirt said:
I have several of the colored and clear Hemmingrays, I couldn't give em away at a garage sale we had. They are pretty tho. ffd

They are attractive many times; but, I'm not certain that that's an important factor to collectors of these insulators.

I took these common examples off my shelf to make room for bottles: