Method of replacing insulators on a tower and insulator support and transport assembly therefor

Electrical insulator support means for safely cradling an electrical insulator which comprises a string of aligned individual insulators, each individual insulator having at least a larger diameter skirt and a concentric smaller diameter shank extending upwardly therefrom, during transport between work sites on and during helicopter transport to and from an electrical conductor supporting tower,

• said support means comprising a partially peripherally enclosed, open-topped structure having a floor, an upstanding rear wall, peripheral walls sloping downwardly from said rear wall to a front wall, an opening in said front wall, an elongate slot in said floor extending rearwardly from said opening in said front wall at least half the distance toward said rear wall, said slot having a width greater than the diameter of an insulator shank but less than the diameter of an insulator skirt, the shape and dimensions of said floor allowing an insulator skirt to lie flat thereon within the peripheral walls of said cradling means.