[Zeke]

I don't think nostatic's is a crimp type by the way he is describing it. I remember a type the cinched up in line with the pull. This was back when I climbed poles for then GTE about '64. With age, those sucker can get real tight. We would cut them down and string up a new drop. But a couple times we ran out of supplies on the truck. We beat them open with a hammer and a screwdriver back toward the way they went together. Kind of a Chinese finger, right Todd? If you collaspe the thing while trying to undo it, it wasn't meant to be.