Some projects while around Conroe - Situation 1 - safety cables

As we've indicated before, there's always things that need to be fixed. This is a list of some of the projects that we've done while at Lake Conroe... 

Situation 1: 

When we were hooking up the Jeep a couple of campgrounds ago, we noticed that the safety cable had evidently been dragged and compromised (you can see that just a few of the strands of the cable are still holding -- the only thing we can figure is that it got dragged at some point when we did not have the Jeep hooked up and we thought we had it secured behind the motorhome). 

The safety cables are used to ensure that the Jeep does not get completely separated from the motorhome, even in case of a failure of the tow bar. Longtime blog readers (from back in the days of "Trekin' with the Cartwrights") may recall the day that our safety cables kept the Jeep from getting loose in Shreveport, LA -- https://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2015/11/excitement-for-day.html -- so we are well aware of the importance of having safety cables in good shape when we're traveling!

On the trip from Dallas to Conroe, I looked up the part and ordered replacement safety cables from Amazon to be delivered to Kim's address. We retrieved the Amazon order and had it on our to-do list to replace the cables.

In this picture, Carl is unfastening the quick link where the safety cables attach to the back of the motorhome. The one on the left side opened pretty easily, but the one he is working on was a bear to get open far enough to get the old safety cable out and the new one in (definitely *not* a "quick link" in this case!). He finally got it done though, and the new safety cables are in place for our next travel day.