[Cialug] OT: flag pole repair

[James Shoemaker]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> This is going to sound like the oddest problem, but I was wondering if
> anyone here knows anything about flag pole repair or knows someone who
> does it. The rope is broke and stuck at the top of the pole so the
> flag won't go up or down and the bottom of the flag is not tethered.
>
>   
  How tall is the pole?  I have sometimes managed to handle such a
repair by cutting the old line just above the flag with a tree-pruner
and putting a piece of solit 12G wire on the end of the new line and
feeding it in using the same tree pruner.

James