Need the bug netting hat for those Ontario black flies!! Keeps them out of your eyes nose and ears!

The big 3 layer insulator you said had Victor on it. It was made in Victor N.Y. Victor is in upstate N.Y. ...Just out side of Rochester N.Y. .. Im from that area originally. I grew up hearing tales of the Victor insulator factory. So when ever i see a insulator in the woods or in some ones collection i look to see if its a Victor. Pretty cool find. Crazy that you gotta go to Canada to find American made things. But at least your bringing her back to America. Keep up the good work.

When i saw Flying Saucer in the title all I could think was, "oh boy, here we go again."

@geyotepilkington2892

5 жыл бұрын

Right! All I could think about was all those people saying it was a grain silo not a ufo LOL

So cool walking in the woods finding stuff from our past, Great video Chig. Your a lucky man to be out in the woods bugs and all, lol

Always amazed at how the settlers did any travel, the slash, swamps, and bugs tough to keep going tough to stop.

I feel for you and your back. I've had several back surgeries and the pain can put you down, right where you stand, even in the middle of the woods. But, the black flies and skeeters would send me running like my tail was on fire....even with a bad back. But, physically, I can't run, so, I guess I would sit on the forest floor and be eaten alive !! Nice insulators. Guess next time, you should wear a bee suit....lol. Thanks for the video. Feel better fast, my friend.

@markcarson1844

5 жыл бұрын

Back issues really stink, I understand well.

Chigg you get around. Last video i watched you were down south but now a few weeks later your way up north. Keep living the dream for me.

We all live vicariously through you , so please be safe

Invest in a few net hats Chigg! They will keep the little demons out of your ears and nose. You might need a bee keeper outfit for this place though...

That bad back shows up at the most convenient occasions... And yet he can slither through a cave like a snake!

You found that smaller blue insulator and now I can't stop thinking about the inchworm from the Fox and the Hound

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing with us. Happy Hunting.

Nice porcelain insulator beautiful blue color! Great video!

I LIVED OFF GRID FOR TWO YEARS. IN HALIBURTON AREA, I LOVED IT.

Wow those are huge insulators!

Awesome. Those insulators go for big bucks!

Cool insulators, good adventure...

Man i was having a very bad day. Set down to watch your video it all kinda melted away. Awesome adventures ty Chig.

I was swating the bugs too, ya made me ich chig! Nice insulators!!

Argh, I get itchy just watching you in the bug swarm! Insulators are cool. I have a number of the blue glass ones in varying sizes. Hope your back gets to feeling better!

Happy 4th July. Great insulators, but brutal bugs!

For a second there, I though you said "We're going to do some exploring of the minds" instead of "mines". I thought...yeah baby!

@leannkennedy6568

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

Don’t blame you for leaving!

You and MeMiner cool! I suffered camping on a Canadian island at Rocky Island Lake in Mississauga for almost 3 weeks.. mosquito's were terrible! It was beautiful though and I loved it!!

@Gonzobuddy

5 жыл бұрын

Rocky Island is a beautiful place indeed. The Bear,Wolves, Moose Walleye and Northern Pike are a great distraction but the bugs are hard to describe to anyone until they live with them a while.

Great insulator finds there, I'd be going back and getting as many as I can. I have a few large ones like those, all brown. It's been awhile since I've been out "insulator hunting". About 10-15 years ago the railroad removed a bunch of telegraph poles and left insulators, pins, crossarms, rolls of wire scattered all over along the tracks. I think I ended up with well over 300 insulators, that's after leaving many Armstrong and Hemingray CD155s.

Fun, but I hate the bugs - never used to like it when we went up into the Northwoods of Michigan in the summer, the bugs drove me crazy, come the frosty mornings, then it was beautiful. Keep safe y'all!

My friend wants to go up there, so glad i can watch this.

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

Have him get ahold of me if he does! I'll show him around

@FOUNDITBURIED

5 жыл бұрын

@@CobaltOntarioadventures VERY COOL,, THANKS

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, no prob. There will be some crazy videos coming soon featuring me lol gotta be soon now!

@FOUNDITBURIED

5 жыл бұрын

@@CobaltOntarioadventures Can't wait..

Hope you back back feels better soon

Nice ramble there Chigg, please take care of your back. A nice hot pad might do?! Nice old insulators and fun with meMiner. Happy 4th! Have a great day!

Citrosa, or Mosquito Shoo Geranium works well for keeping them pesky buggers at bay.

Happy Independence Day- Thank you for your service!

Spray yourself with peppermint essence. Works for me

LoL GPS works everywhere... It's an array of satellites. Idk about your phone but I don't even have cell phone service, traditional, I only use Wi-Fi, and my GPS still works if I load the map before I go and there's an option to do so in Google maps to use offline by downloading the entire map of your area beforehand.

@pawoodsman1737

5 жыл бұрын

Not always. I live in pa and there are places around here were i loose satelite signal. But thats because of the mountains

@Geethreeohm

5 жыл бұрын

Any tips for using offline maps ? , I downloaded them before I went to the Netherlands and turkey and neither worked and both were updated .

Always cool to find insulators. You should hunt the old railroads more and see what you can find! There are more out there! Hunt those insulators!

Awesome! The Chigg hunting insulators. Welcome to the dark side, brother! 😁Nice score on the blue Victor multipart! These were made during the 1920's. The splotched Ohio Brass two-piece is really nice. I have a few of those that I saved from a powerline upgrade. We talked a bit about this at the Radioworld meet and greet. I mentioned that I host the annual insulator show in Perth, Ontario.

@minifamacct442

5 жыл бұрын

hey Darcy! Was going to comment on the insulators but you beat me to it! -Chris

@kepvalley

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Chris H. or Chris M.!?

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

Are these insulators valuable? I know I've looked up a bunch of small glass ones I've found, but never though to see about these massive things. I guess it makes sense to now lol

@kepvalley

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure how much these are worth. It really depends on rarity and how in demand it is. As with a lot of collectibles, larger items like these are a bit more unwieldy and more difficult to display so they are not as desirable as a smaller unipart type. There is a value guide for these by Elton Gish. eBay would be a good resource to check and see what they might be going for.

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

Alright, thanks. I'll look into it, I can get to this location in about 12 minutes from home haha but they're all around me in the bush.. this video is just at 1 mine property. There were over 100 at the same time once! Mines everywhere

This is exactly how the blackflies are in the forests where i live in Maine. They can be very aggravating to say the least.

those black flies were so bad even I got bit three times, and I am in michigan thanks chigg

@20greeneyes20

5 жыл бұрын

Me too and I'm from Maryland thanks a lot Chigg

@leannkennedy6568

5 жыл бұрын

I'm in Michigan too. The flies are horrible.

I'm pretty sure MacDonald had a farm. Not sure if that helps...

@AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979

5 жыл бұрын

E, I, E, I, O

@jillmccoy5184

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha!

@julieheilman2065

5 жыл бұрын

On his farm, he had a...

@daveubermensch

5 жыл бұрын

Only the old one. His son started a restaurant.

I have big brown insulators and they make great pillar candle holders.

Victor insulators made in Victor NY, near Rochester New York.

@themobleys

5 жыл бұрын

Yep! I live a few miles away from Victor Insulators!

1:45, is definitely the top of a seltzer bottle!

Awesome insulaters! Make me drool!! You need to just smoke a cigar. I don't smoke but I always fire up a Swisher's sweet while catfishing at night.

Cool insulators! Thanks for sharing Chigg and Meminer! Happy safe blest 4th of July to you and yours! You need a grouss detector Chigg!@😂😂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Always enjoy your vids.

Those are neat. That light blue insulator was beautiful. Too bad it was broken. :( I collected a bunch of insulators from the railroad tracks when I was in my teens. They were all clear, green and blueish green colors. Always wanted to find some more exotic colors like brown, light blue and purple but never did.

Wow those got to be heavy! Happy 4th! ☺

Nice adventure Chigg and those insulators are real big unlike those small glass ones ATB GL & HH LittleJohn_MD 🇬🇧

Hey Chigg glad to see you working on finding them gold coins.

If you get LED strips and glue them on the inside of the insulators, you can make a really nice lamp out of them. I have a few that look much like the blue ones you found, only a smidge smaller. Mine are made in UK something like 1970s tho.

I think ol' Chig had been drinking.

Happy Independence Day- Thank you for your service! You need to come to S. Ontario. Our bugs are smaller.

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

Finally someone who gets it lol he was in southern Ontario before he came up here :)

Happy 4th Of July Chigg from Maryland and everyone else who reads this. 🇺🇸 🎆

Never get further than Pelee island. But I'm going to get up there now!

Walmart has Deep Woods Off for $1.50 can in some areas, Target usually has them on clearance by fall. I only use it on my clothes though, stuff spilled on some of my commercial shelving and ate the paint. Look up dog fennel. It tested more effective than DEET. Had it in my dry pond bed in FL. We'd sit down there and drink at night on the ATV's and NO mosquitoes, none. 100 acres of lake right next door. Put it in the top of my chicken coop and my girls slept mosquito-free.

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!

@20greeneyes20

5 жыл бұрын

Same to ya be safe!!!!!

@leannkennedy6568

5 жыл бұрын

Happy Fourth of July to you too!

@leannkennedy6568

5 жыл бұрын

@J D 🤭

Sweet adventure nice finds yup bugs lots of them u need a face net so u can at least breath nice finds

Anyone wandering around in the bush this time of year is FRESH MEAT! Too bad those flies even exist!

Hope your back improves .I had to bail on a bottle hunting trip last summer due to sciatica.Thanks for showing these cool finds.Bring a mosquito head net .

Hey man good video thank you for it I enjoyed it and yeah I have a lot of insulators myself those big ones there are not too good but the big brown ones and the little blue ones are good if I remember correctly if you can find little white ones are good and I think the Elsa came and green they're little like a blue ones those are good also

That went on a seltzer bottle Chigg

Lookin for your next video Chigg you got this GOD BLESS.

Yeah, late spring and early summer are terrible up north. It should start to improve during July and be mutch less a problem in august providing it's a suny day. I do have a couple of hats fitted with a net, but those black flyes will find a spot on the sleeve and go bite you on the wrist or ankles. As I'm getting older, and maybe a bit wiser, I just avoid the woods up north untill it gets hot enauph to kill them flyes. Sometimes, after a hot july night, you'd see tons and tons of dead flys floating on the lakes. Dont expect good fishing that week as the fishes are over fed with them :) And with the rain we got this spring, it's even worse this year. Well that is for northern Quebec, but i'm pretty sure it's the same in Ontario

I’m from western Maryland and I always wear a bug net over my face when I’m in the woods. The thought of bugs getting in my mouth is horrifying.

I feel bad Beau. You need to take an easy. You’ve got to take care of that back. You take care of u first! Don’t worry trying to please ur loyal fans. I’m sure they’ll agree with me. #healthybeau #healthymedaldetector #healthyartifacts #healthyfinds #healthycaving #healthyyoutuber #wewillholdourbreath.

Pretty sure the Mcdonald thing is a soda syphon, used to be common over here in the UK.

Long time ago I saw a documentary about how one of the big animals up there migrate to get away from the flying pests.

Scope it out and go back in the fall, early winter. Bugs up your nose, in your ears, back hurting, gotta be frustrating, but still smiling. Stay awesome Me-Miner and Chigg. And, thanks for bringing us along.

I thought. What the hell is a seltzer bottle valve doing all the way out there? But after seeing those black fly swarms, those miners probably needed a good drink to deal with all that buzzing in their face all day.

The buckets are from mosquito repellent !

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

HA!

Ontariariario...yehhhhhh..waving at ya from Ontario

@craig4557

5 жыл бұрын

Cindy Roy It was a mining area at one time.

@cindyroy8541

5 жыл бұрын

@@craig4557 thanks for your comment. Yes silver. I looked it up. It sounds awesome except for the pteradactyl - Skeeters. (Black flys' are rough too)

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Cobalt was a major silver producer back in the day! It has a bunch of historical significance for Ontario and even Canada. Mines EVERYWHERE! They took out over a half a BILLION oz of silver. That's 500,000,000+ oz!

@cindyroy8541

5 жыл бұрын

@@CobaltOntarioadventures Wow really. I never knew. Whats the population now. Still 1500 ish. That IS alot of silver

No flies on you - except the black ones! :-)

GPS is not cell service dependent. Take a picture with a smart phone of your find with location enabled, and you should have a pretty good idea where to return to and for what

I had no idea those insulators were worth anything I have a dozen of the last one you found

You need the top part of a bee suit

Big victor insulators probably handle up to 70 - 80kv old transfer units.

SELTZER SELTZER Bottle top was the first ,Artifact NOT , Love your videos Show MOAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found a bunch of green ones insulators one time but they were on a game preserve I couldn’t take them. They’re still there as far as I know.

I love insulators. Have them on my fence posts and rigged them to light.

I want one they are beautiful for some strange reason I'm drawn to them

That's a three stooges seltzer water sprayer!😉🤣

To whomever finds one of those water dispensers, do not, stick your finger in the hole to clean it. Often, those have glass shards where the bottle used to be.

Happy fourth of July hope ya can swing over to Michigan on your travels!

Happy Fourth of July buddy them little black flies got a good bite to I think

HAPPY 4th of July god bless the USA land of the free

930 WOOHOO FROM TEXAS.

At the insulators, meminer's face was behind the tree branches. Lol I thought of Tim the tool man's neighbor.. what was his name?

@fred4089

5 жыл бұрын

Wilson?

@leannkennedy6568

5 жыл бұрын

@@fred4089 I think you're right. Thanks!

I seen a duck play hurt to lead me away from her babies to. I left them alone. Those are nice now. The insulators that is.

Yeah they could be pretty old that's an old sensor water bro seltzer water nozzle

That's the top of a syphon bottle chigg

Chig...take us away from those black flys!!!

Have a great fourth of july. You should of bloused your boots to keep the bugs out . It sucks when your back hurts so bad you can barely move. .😊

That first thing was from an old soda fountain.

Ahhhh Southern Ontario in the summer. Bugs, bugs, bugs. I remember it fondly. Well, not fondly. It's certainly a memory though. Maybe a nightmare? Either way, it makes an impression on you, doesn't it?

@CobaltOntarioadventures

5 жыл бұрын

This is Northern Ontario in the summer. A bad bug day in southern Ontario is a GREAT day up here lol The video does not do the bug population justice, as sad as that is to say

@QuivaRPG

5 жыл бұрын

@@CobaltOntarioadventures Oh good lord it gets WORSE? I remember one year (when I was little) the shadflies were so bad my grandparents had my sister and I cover all our exposed skin (pull your hands into your sleeves, pull your socks way up, stuff like that) and then we put on what were pretty much homemade beekeeping mesh hats and then they carried us to the car any time we had to go out. They'd end up with horrible bites all over. We barely left the house for a few weeks. But that's what they got for living on the St Lawrence River. Stunning views, deadly swarms.

I would love to see a video with all your Insulator?

Awe poor Chig... hope your back is feeling better?

🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Those huge insulators are a pretty colour. I have only ever seen the beige/brown combo colour around here. Those bugs are wild! I had wondered if you were using your permethrin spray or deet?

You can use those broken glass insulators for flint napping arrowheads.

@texaswader

5 жыл бұрын

Yes you can but deer antler works better for me.

@McChrister

5 жыл бұрын

Bill Gorman May I ask what you mean by “Flint Mapping”? (for finding arrowheads?🤷🏻‍♀️😃) TIA for your reply.

@BillGorman

5 жыл бұрын

@@McChrister That means the m is right next to the n on the keyboard, must be your internal spell checker is broken.

@McChrister

5 жыл бұрын

Bill Gorman ?? I don’t understand your answer to my question...What is flint napping? Sorry for the typo.😂✌🏼

@texaswader

5 жыл бұрын

@@McChrister He meant to say "flint Knapping" Make a point by chipping the flint until you get the form you desire.

7:01 those can come apart you can take the broken one off

I don’t even go to the beach because of the bugs!

Its a spritzer for making soda water....