This is no shoebox but no doubt the gull was involved with this.

See I fixed it.

Ahh I still think the gull needs to be questioned about this.

I saw a R37 like this once, bad gull for causing it to be replaced with a FCO 125.

I've never seen this happen in Rhode Island but in Florida it happened to a durastar. The fiberglass housing came off the cast aluminum slipfitter. Hopefully if I go back there in a few years I'll be able to remember where i saw it and grab a pic of the new fixture.

Heh, they seem to have the problem over time at least two Durastars here were replaced because they sagged too much.

It's because they're made from cheap fiberglass instead of good ol' cast aluminum. Thankfully there are no durapoos near me but in northwestern RI there are some durastars installed by the Pascoag Utiltiy District, which serves that area. They're supplied by NGrid feeds but PUD owns their own lines and lights and service their own electrical needs. There's a noticable difference in how they mount their primarys too. They currently use AEL 115s though they did use the Cooper OVH and OVZ a few years back. For flood lights I've seen many different styles.

Yeah, the fibreglass they use doesn't seem to hold up as well as cast aluminium over time and it's a good thing my utility stopped installing the Durastar after a brief trial in the early 2000s.

Oh and I noticed that my utility starting using the polymer insulators for the primaries instead of the old ceramic type.

Ceramic or porcelain? I'm not sure when they switched to polymer here but during pole renewals the existing insulators sometimes get transfered and other times not. I guess it depends on the lineman. The brown insulators almost always get repalced by polymer ones here though.

I think porcelain, the old ones looks the same as the one in Ian's pic. Here's a shot of some removed ones sitting on the ground:

Wow. National Grid never leaves anything valuable laying around. Just the usual bird nest from a street light that they had to remove or the occasional retired utility pole, etc. They do sometimes leave metal poles on the freeways on the side of the road for months. They usually just push it a few yards from the road and leave it there so they can reinstall it at some point.

Hehe, they left a OV 15 with the arm still attached a few nights before I took that pic, they reinstalled the OV 15 though.

They took down a AE 113 during a primary line issue but they put the light back up when they were done.

This pole and fixture are now gone. Part of a freeway widening project.

I could just picture that...at night...in a windstorm...LOL