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Identify Trailer Breakaway Cable Vulnerability

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The video opens by demonstrating a standard trailer hitch setup, highlighting the connection of the breakaway cable. The narrator immediately points out a critical safety concern: if the traditional eyelet on the trailer breaks or the safety chains fail, the trailer's emergency brakes may not be activated, leading to a dangerous runaway trailer situation. This sets the stage for the introduction of a new solution.

Goal: This step illustrates a common problem with existing trailer setups where the breakaway cable might fail to activate brakes if primary safety components break.

Tools and materials

  • Breakaway Cable
  • Safety Chains
  • Trailer Hitch Assembly

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If a eyelid on the back of your trailer breaks, or the chains break, your brakes are not going to get activated. All right, folks, we're in checking out a new product called Tow Tether. Tell us what you got, Andy. Well, when you hook up your trailer up to your tow vehicle, there's a standard position for just about everything. Obviously, your hitch goes here, your wiring goes here, your cables are hooked up, and you got the cradle going. But, where does this go? There's not a place that this goes to every single time. So, what we did is we came up with Tow Tether. And what Tow

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