Richard Casady wrote:
How come stainless cable is more than six times as costly as
galvanized, yet nobody uses the galvanized. Stainless the same size
has about 80% of the breaking strength. Galvanized is what they guy
power poles with.

Casady

The congenitally cheap (not to mention me) join the work boat riggers in
choosing galvanized, often enough....

Brian W