Method and apparatus for aerial wire stringing through areas without vertical access

A releasable connector is provided in an aerially placed pulling cable which is deposited in a catching device wherein the connector is disconnected and reconnected to connectors carried by the ends of a preplaced loop cable passing through the area to be strung, all responsively to forces of cable stringing. The particularly configured catcher provides a guiding through to support the pulling cable and its connector and upon appropriate positioning of the cable therein to release the connector so that the rearward portion of the pulling cable moves rearwardly by reason of its gravity bias to connect with one end of the preplaced loop cable and the forward end of the pulling cable moves forwardly to connect with the forward end of the loop cable to reform a continuous compound pulling cable with the loop cable incorporated therein. The loop cable is preplaced in a stringing block supported in the area through which it is desired that the pulling cable pass, with the loop cable ends passing from the serving block in a single loop to the catcher.