Towed vehicle breakaway events?
In thinking about the breakaway systems used along with supplemental braking systems on towed vehicles, it got me wondering about how many times these breakaway systems actually may have been called u...
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willald wrote:mtrumpet wrote:
Interesting responses. One of the outstanding points that I've gathered from the discussion so far is the importance of somehow getting the safety chains (or cables) hooked to the frame of the motorhome, and not just the receiver. Although something tells me that's a little more difficult to accomplish on some rigs
..Difficult and not realistic on almost ALL rigs, actually.
There really is no good way to attach safety chains to the frame in most cases. And, most hitch receivers provide a very good, convenient place to attach them, so I think thats what 99.9% of us do.
Now, you definitely want the break-away cable to connect to something other than the receiver (preferably the frame of the MH). Thats a bit easier to do, though.
I'm going to use a cable arrangement to attached the break-away cable to the frame of the motorhome. Certainly easier to accomplish as the break-away cable remains slack. The safety cables, well, that's a different story.
