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.
