yes, you bad, should have tied a string to the old one before you pulled it out .... need to get a "fish wire" up or down the post to pull the wire with, something that's stiffer than the electrical wire
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics