Breakaway Cable on Andersen Hitch.
For those of you that use the Andersen Ultimate Hitch, how do you hook up the Breakaway Cable? I thought, about putting it over the Ball on the Hitch, then hooking up the Coupler on top of it. Then I ...
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Thermoguy wrote:JIMNLIN wrote:
If your replying to me you need to read what I said. I have/had and always have used safety chains on all my ball/pintle hitch trailers.
Your comment "and I do not want my trailers brakes applied while the chains are still hooked." is why I attached that video. The chains will stay attached to the truck and trailer, you need the brakes applied to stop the trailer when attached to the truck. The chains are not going to brake away from the truck, then the trailer brakes are going to engage. You need the brakes engaging before it hits the end of the chains... period...
This has never happened to me - knock on wood - but from my experience and seeing how you are supposed to set up your trailer, regardless of the trailer hitch type, if you have chains, the brake cable is shorter than the chains.
Well... its happened to me with a heavy pintle hitch trailer behind a 3500 DRW chevy and know the results. I was at the mercy of which ever way the trailer was headed. The trailer see sawed back and forth with the brakes locked....like a big fish on a small pole.
Luckily the truck was headed to the right and into the ditch and away from oncoming traffic.
I remember my first new entrant audit when I first got into hauling. The officer doing the audit made a comment the safety chains are there to keep the trailer attached to the truck...and the breakaway system applies the brakes on a runaway trailer. After what happened to me he made sense.
I'll continue to set my breakaway system the way the officer mentioned.
