Thanks, guys.
Wait a minute, I didn't get my 3 cents in
I used number 10 stranded, black in color and the clear part came off after a few years. It had been up for 11 years way up on pine trees maybe 75 or 80 feet and it survived all kinds of tugging from the wind but I did one thing before I put it up since it would be cut for 1.885 fed with OWL. I hooked it up to my truck bumper while the other end was tied to a tree and stretched it till it broke. I figure that was poor mans hard drawn wire. I spliced it back together and measured it again and if I remember correctly, it stretched about 4-5 feet. I did this because I didn't want one side longer than the other. It would still be up there but some loggers came in and took down the tree on the north end
I replaced it with some of that wire man #13 copper clad steel stuff only because it was given to me.
The stretching did make it stiffer and in doing so, the wire somehow bound itself to the plastic covering making it somewhat hard to strip the insulation off it to spice it together? If it were a shorter antenna, I would probably not go through all that trouble.