British Insulators

Here you will find video clips of hunts in progress. I feel the hunting experience is as rewarding as the insulators themselves. The videos are in wmv format which will play in Realplayer, Windows Media Player and other players that support the wmv format. A broadband connection is required to download them in a reasonable time although not essential to play them. I've kept the file sizes below 5MB but I don't want to sacrifice the quality by making them too small.

When I'm up a pole the first thing I do is see if any of the insulators will turn by hand. As you will see they are all stuck to their spindles but it's made worse because the spindles are turning on the crossarm so the only way of removing one is to saw through the crossarm

As usual the first thing I do is see if any of the insulators are loose. Once again they are solid but as they are on swan necks I'm able to use the strap as the swan necks can't rotate horizontally. Sometimes even the strap can't unscrew the most stubborn pieces

Here's another pole with swan necks, in fact it's on the same line as the one above. This time I'm able to take both pieces

Sometimes not everything goes to plan. This pole contains a pair of small single groove insulators so I decided to get them. Unfortunately the one on the right is cracked and the other one refused to come off when I used the strap so these two will stay here

This pole is full of different types of insulators so I reckon I would strip it bare of the good pieces but once again none of them would move and virtually all of them were on pins that spun round on the crossarm. I managed to get the strap around one but it also began to turn on the crossarm so I left this pole empty handed too

This page is still in its infancy so I'd welcome comments if you have any troubles viewing the clips.
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