I do exactly what they tell you never to do, but it works, and it is all I 
can do.  When the ladder line comes in to the shack, I have about 40 extra 
feet left on my 96 feet of line.
I bring it around the ceiling of my shack in a 10 feet square.  connecting 
it to hooks with short pieces of nylon line.  Then it goes in to the balun 
to the tuner to the coax switch to the radios.  I tried cutting the line 
short, and lost 10 DB on 160, so I put the line back on.  I don't know if I 
would do this running high power, but I haven't grown an extra head yet 
running 100 watts.  I guess the A.M. is theoretically 600 Watts of PEP 
signal.
My children all had 10 fingers and 10 toes to.