Hi:
Seems that everywhere I look in our semi-rural county I see these aerael cables. They are suspected from a steel cable but the interesting thing is that they seem to have been sent to the linemen as a pre-fab, fixed length assembly.
Sections are joined by plugging into one end of a cylinder that's about 1' by 5" diameter. Today the end of each section there is a place where slack is taken up by turning the cable around a "thimble" which limits the turning radius to about 4". There are two such "turns" to take up slack and between the turns there are 3 cable sections.
Don't have pictures as this is something I see where I drive but I don't want to stop and don't usually bring a camera with with me.
It's been 30 years since I have been in the "telephone business" so I curious about whats going on.
thanks