Trailer Safety Chain

How is following existing safety conventions or discussing equipment laughable? I don't mind constructive criticism, but that's trolling. Try to keep your humor on topic at least.

 

I'm looking at an existing chain that is getting worn through, so it would seem that a rope wouldn't work so well for a wheel, maybe the tire alone.

 

So the sticker didn't give a chain rating, just a part number for the whole thing, along with a warning and instructions.

Basically that says the tire/wheel could fly off and kill someone, so... tightly wrap the safety chain around tire and through a wheel hand hole with the end clasp fastened back into chain. Do not use the carrier if the chain is broken, damaged or missing parts.

Took a snapshot of the chain on there, isn't as hefty as the auxiliary one I picked up, which would hold it then and probably hold up better. I'll have to see if the hooks fit in there though, or add a couple smaller ones. Not that I'm replacing this one, just an example.



There isn't much extra, so with one weak link it's pretty much useless, and wouldn't that suck? A spare doing the opposite of what it's on there for, causing a problem instead of solving one...

 

Oh yeah, it is for a Great Dane.

 

I don't know, it aint pretty. Could get uglier though...

 

Wild guess would be that defaults to original equipment if something goes wrong, and the replacement was not a chain, or a smaller chain, then I still screwed up (especially when they put a warning sticker on the trailer).