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anyone know where guy wires originated? the name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.163.117.20 (talk) 16:19, 2005 April 14 (UTC)

Yes, where did this term come from? WilliamKF 23:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So apparently the answer to this is in the article on "guy (sailing)". I think this should be included in this article as well, assuming it is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.17.112.63 (talk) 04:51, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Guidewire (re)directs here, yet it seems so should be in the article, itself. It is an Americanization, yet it is popularly known. A guy-wire is, technically, a "guide wire" (tensioned cable).

Nantucketnoon (talk) 12:20, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

there was this swedish (?) long wave transmitter, the center mast fell because of a lightning destroying one of the insulators (though not one of the guy wires, but of the mast itself) --Deelkar (talk) 02:57, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to clean up this article to make it flow a little better. I also wikified it quite a bit.

I am a bit fuzzy on some of the techincal discussions involving the effect of guy wires on broadcasting but I tried to clarify it as much as possible. Someone with a better grasp of radio communications should take a crack at this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Epolk (talk • contribs) 17:38, 2005 June 23 (UTC)

This phrase 'mast antennas' must I think have been translated from German. It relates to what are known in the UK as 'mast radiators', which now have their own page. For some reason many mast-related pages are full of this stuff, and it needs weeding out. Spliced 19:56, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

which is correct? both forms are used in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.114.24.9 (talk) 00:03, 2006 January 19 (UTC)

Ans..Both are currently used in the industry and can be used either way when ordering the wire from the manufactures. The term guy wire itself describes the application and not the wire. Most steel wire comes in various forms that are descriptive of both its mechanical properties and physical characteristics. such as EHS, Bridge stand, 19 strand or aviation just to name a few. -JM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.64.17.163 (talk) 18:22, 2007 February 22 (UTC)

I just did a Google search for "guy wire" and "guy-wire". This found 9.28 million matches for "guy-wire" and only 8.67 million for "guy wire".

HOWEVER, when I looked at the first 2 pages of matches for both, the only occurrence I saw of "guy-wire" was for this article.

I therefore suggest this article be retitled as "guy wire", with "guy-wire" as an alternative in the lede -- and then change all uses to "guy wire", since that seems to match what Google returned for "guy-wire". DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:46, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

image overlaps text above it. tried to reduce the size of the caption to fix this butit didn't work — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.124.231.38 (talk) 19:44, 2007 April 14 (UTC)

Can you give me your screen size and resolution ? eg. 15" 1024x768, so, i can check it ? reg. Mion 04:56, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Disagree. The proposal was made in October 2007, and until now there has been no discussion, and no action. Each article can stand alone, sith suitable cross-references. Each separate article fits neatly within the categories they were originally written for. An alternative would be to create shift most of the content of the present page to guy (buildings), leaving only general material on the present page. But I am most in favour of the status quo. — DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 01:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]
• Opposed, however the articles need more references and a bit of rewrite. Mion (talk) 01:54, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What are they called and what do they do? They are visible in the photo looking up the guys at the mast. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.233.178.253 (talk) 17:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure which picture you're talking about, but they're almost certanly Stockbridge dampers. —Steve Summit (talk) 10:46, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Crane tag lines are not guy wires. They are connected to the load on one end and are free or held by hand on the other end. Guy wires are anchored on (at least) one end. They are both made of cables or ropes, but they are different applications of those items. --Vonhoser (talk) 15:25, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The discussion of tag lines does not belong here. (Also, it's wrong in other ways. For example, it's not just "unwieldy" loads; it's virtually all loads.) I'll try to fix it. —Steve Summit (talk) 10:42, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What does "fire service extension ladders used in church raises and tents" mean?--agr (talk) 02:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This section duplicates/is complementary to/is supplementary to the article Earth Anchor. Should there be a merger? AnnaComnemna (talk) 10:20, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to verify whether the word 'Guy wire' has any connection etymologically to the man “Guy Fawkes” infamous for his notorious GUNPOWDER PLOT in a failed attempt to blow up the British Parliament on November 5, 1605 ( Reference Websites: History and Wikipedia). Since there are no convincing explanations here, I propose the following one with a description of the background. After his failed attempt, Guy Fawkes was convicted and sentenced to death. Soon following this, people started celebrating annually across Great Britain the day – ‘November 5’ - in the name ‘Guy Fawkes Day’ in remembrance of the survival of their Parliament from Gunpowder Plot. As quoted in ‘The Merriam-Webster Book of Word Histories’ (1976), “ On this day bonfires are lit and fireworks displayed, and on the bonfires are burned effigies of Guy Fawkes made from old tattered clothes stuffed with straw or rags”. As early as 1806, these effigies had come to be called guys. … The use of this word was extended to … a person of grotesque appearance or dress. In the united states, by the middle of nineteenth century, guy had been generalized meant to mean simply ‘man’ or ‘fellow’ and its pejorative connotations are lost”. Now making a conjecture, is it possible that, people used to suspend the effigies of the guys by ropes fastened to gallows-type structures and eventually, the particular cable supporting the structure came to be addressed as guy wires? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.206.52.155 (talk) 07:12, 2020 July 29 (UTC)

No, this is not plausible. The OED has a 1620 citation of it, spelled guies (plural), and it's related to Dutch and French words for rope. --Ccrrccrr (talk) 21:31, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]