To begin, this "concoction" was something that evolved from my ever-thinking and "inventive" mind. Read on...

I very much doubt anything like this ever "happened" in real service in the days of 'yore. However I needed something to make wire clearance through some heavy branches. Here's how I did it...

I started with a very old streetlight bracket insulator with the porcelain part busted off...clean. From there I "screwed onto" the leaded and sanded remains a CD 160. It fit pretty well!! The insulator bracket was tightly affixed to a branch approximately 1-1/4 inches in diameter...same as it was on the original pipe-style streetlight bracket. I took a rounded forestry insulator, twisted heavy gauge galvanized wire around the latter and finally affixed it to the CD 160 as seen. Note the white two-part forestry insulator is suspended *above* the CD 160. The heavy lashing wire was used so if there was slack in the line the white two-piece insulator would remain pretty much in place without swinging down and hitting the glass, etc.

In such an instance the repair crew would arrive..."me"...to make the necessary repair so that my vintage streetlight display remained brilliantly lit ;-)