Bysn1/8 T316 Stainless Steel Cable, Aircraft Cable for Deck Railing, 7 x 7 Strands Construction Braided Steel Wire Rope, 500FT

Finally bit the bullet and replaced our railing on our log cabin on the lake with a wire railing. It came out great and I should have done it years before. We have a log cabin lake house on a lake in new York we built in 2012. The log cabin kit used log spindles for the railing. Looked good for the log home theme but… My wife is only 5 foot tall and when sitting in a chair on the deck, the railing blocked most of the view of the lake! So I did a bunch of research and came up with the below installation as the best for us and it looks fantastic.As you will see in the complete photos, I kept the log up rights but took out the log rails and spindles. Since I was keeping the log up rights, I realized that trying to drill the wires through the logs and keep them perfectly straight and evenly separated, even using a jig, was going to be nearly impossible. Thus my first idea of one long wire run from end to end (40 feet) using turnbuckles on one end, didn’t look like a valid solution. Then I ran into the Threaded Swag Lag Screws. I realized I can do 5 different groups of wires using the lag screws into the log up rights and not have to drill through them, only predrill starter holes for the Lag screws. We laid out the top rail, out of same wood as the cabin. And for the two widest sections on the left we used a section of the top rail as an upright that is drilled through as a wire support. The two long section on the left are 10’ 6” each and the three shorter sections on the right are 5’ 6” each (give or take a little).Material I purchased to do the job:All I bought were items 1 through 5 below, all through Amazon. The total was only $332 for all of it including the tools. With the outcome I got at the end – this was a steal in my book (no pun intended).1. Steel DN Mate 40 Packs T316 Stainless Steel Right&Left Handed Thread Swage Lag Screws for Wood Post of 1/8" Cable Railing Kit,Deck Railing Hardware/Stair Deck Railing,DIY Wood Baluster Kit,With Wrench2. Bysn 1/8 T316 Stainless Steel Cable, Aircraft Cable for Deck Railing, 7 x 7 Strands Construction Braided Steel Cable, 500FT Wire Rope Cable for Railing3. Muzata Wire Cutters, Stainless Steel Wire Rope Aircraft Bicycle Cable Cutter, Up to 5/32" Deck Railing Cable, CR12,Series CT14. Muzata Custom Hydraulic Hand Crimper Tool for 1/8" Stainless Steel Cable Railing Kit System Fittings- Wire Rope Swaging,2019 Upgrade Version Crimping-60 Ton CT01,CT15. 100Pack T316 Stainless Steel Protective Protector Sleeves for 1/8" 5/32" 3/16" Deck Cable Railing Kit with A Free Drill Bit (100 Pack)Installation:Took two days. Day one was removing the old railing sections and I had to replace three up right logs as they were starting to show signs of rot. Once we had the uprights replaced and the top rail wood in place, we could start running the wires. Day 2, running all the wires. The front of my deck is 40 feet wide. I put the wires at 3” apart and made a plywood template with predrilled holes at the exact placements I need to put the lags screws. We would then hold the template up against the log up rights, and I would predrill the holes for the lags using the template holes. The logs come with a drill bit for predrilling them. So no errors in the holes being too big or too small. I had predrilled out the two upright sections that were being used as wire guides and I put in the steel protective sleeves on each side of those holes. When you start, put the lags in (noting one side the lags are reveres threaded for turning later) per the instruction we put the lags in about 1/3 to ½ way in. a tip we found somewhere is do every other wire first as the little wrenches you have to turn the lags in will hit the next wire. This helped make them go a lot faster. Also for pre-starting the lags, I chucked them into my cordless drill and used the drill to start them. Way faster than by hand. Then measure the distance from Wood to wood and subtract 1 1/2” from the length of the wire. We used the Muzata wire cutters above and had to make over 100 cuts. They worked great for all cuts. Didn’t detect any dulling by the end which was nice! Then slide the wire into a Lag and use the crimper to put two crimps on each lag. Seems easy enough but by the teim you are getting to your 200th crimp, your arms are definitely tired. Just keep repeating this for all the wires. And your done. Well… We had five sections of wire, 10 wires each section so that is 20 lag screws per section or 100 lags total, 2 crimps per lag or 200 crimps, and 50 lengths of wires totaling ~ 400 feet. Took all day but when we were done, it looked great! I highly recommend this and it is totally a do it yourself task if you are just even modestly handy. My wife and I did it by ourselves and our friends can’t stop complementing how big a difference it makes. We were very pleased with all the wire products and tools we used. We had no issues with any of it and would do it again in a heartbeat.

Great product on first inspection and install. No issues with fraying or coiling during the process.Only time will tell if it holds up to the elements.

I was very happy with my purchase. It was a very good value for the money. The product of ride very quickly and was wrapped efficiently. It was also nice to see they had suggested. The railing cable kit to use with the size 8 inches cable.

Beautiful long term trellising for grapes, berries, kiwis and espalier trees.I even ran a line above my deer fence to extent the height. Yes, I've used a lot of this cable !!!But, it's strong, good looking and durable. I'll never have to string these lines again.

It works great for any application and it can look good too ..

My first order for 2 rolls was extremely delayed so a replacement order was placed and I received it 4-days later. The contents were fine but the box was too large and had very little packing material so the two heavy rolls had almost busted out of the box. Then a week later the original order showed up so I had to package and send those back using Amazon returns at a UPS store.The cable is just what I wanted so recommend this cable which is competitively priced it just should be packaged with more care for shipping.

Used this as a safety cable for my deep well solar pump. Don't know if it rusty down the hole, but looks like new up top. Light weight and very strong, easy to work with.

Used on new stairway. Wife loved it.