Break-away Cable?

mike-s wrote:
Trailer will be much more stable if its brakes are on than not. Pin should pull before chains break (which they shouldn't) - otherwise you're just adding manual trailer brake control to what you have to do to safely slow down. You really don't want to stop the combo using just the vehicle brakes, with the tongue under the vehicle, or swinging from side to side on the chains.

It won't be like a parachute, like someone said, more like a drogue chute - trailer brakes slow the combo, while the vehicles steers and maintains control.

If you've ever pulled a vehicle with a tow strap, you'll understand - you want to keep it taught or you're going to get yanked around and sacrifice control.

CONGRATS MIKE .... your the one that IMO is starting to get the idea. I've often said the last thing I would want to do is to take one hand off the wheel to muck around with the manual TT brake control and jockey it to get the amount of braking you THINK might be right all of which assumes that your unbilical cord wasn't ripped out during the hitch failure and now have a trailer w/o brakes bent on rear ending you. I want BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL with my FULL ATTENTION to simply maintaining control of the vehicle bringing it to a stop as safely as possible. My biggest concern is to as I alluded to in another post in this thread is to keep my wits about me and stay off my TV brakes and simply forget about the trailer since it's going to do what it wants anyway and worry about what I have some hope of controlling and that is my TV and the safety of those there. The one saving grace is I run this scenario thru my mind several times a day when towing as a reminder and have often practiced just how quickly simply letting off the TV gas and applying full trailer brakes at say an initial speed of 50 t0 60mph the whole rig slows down below 20mph at which time things have slowed down to something that just might be manageable.

Larry