Hensley / Propride safety chain option

BarneyS wrote:
Perhaps most of you have never seen the following thread that was posted by JBarca in December of 2004. It shows, with many excellent pictures, exactly what happens when you try to adjust your chains to "catch" the tongue in the event of an uncoupling or hitch failure.

I think you will benefit from reading it and it pertains exactly to the discussion here so have decided to bring it back up for your reading enjoyment.:)
Barney
JBarca's WD Hitch Safety Chains Hook Up thread

Never saw this! Thanks Barney. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the conclusion the same as I have been stating about the tongue not being caught by the chains? (I was going to take pics of this last night but I fear damaging something in the process. I'll pass.)

It's also hard to know what to test with the Hensley or Propride because its impossible to know what might fail. Would you try with the stinger in or removed? Both situations? What about the coupler and ball? That's impossible to test without high risk of damaging components. I'm not about to try this either. Pass.

If there is any take away from this, I learned my cables are fine but I am still improving the set up regardless after a lot of "feedback" and investigation as well...likely going all 3/8" properly rated chain point to point.

More importantly is not to assume the chains or cables will catch the tongue in any event. The primary purpose of the safety chains is to prevent the trailer from complete disconnect and then the last resort is the Emergency brake bring the unit to a quick halt.

But I'm on the fence about configuring the emergency brake to activate before a complete disconnect occurs. Its darn near impossible to have perfect length chains AND a perfect length brake cable short enough to activate before a complete disconnect while not binding or pulling out during turns.