If the gear gets wiped off or a gear leg breaks it will swing up and or aft. I dont see how safety cables can help with broken gear. But broken cabane, hydrasorb, shock strut, cabane tab - yes. And yes I have the cables on my 12 (18 gear).
Having broken and bent a quite a few over the years guiding mostly with airplanes that were not mine. Pre Atlee's cables it was always a wingtip or prop tip or both.
With cables it was certainly a "cub saver"
However if everything else holds and you bend or crack the welds on the axle your still in trouble....... Skis are the worst as big
wide skis have tremendous leverage in wet sticky snow! More than one set of axles have been bent from a new ski pilot trying to turn his plane by simply lifting the tail and start pushing the tail around only to find the skis hadnt moved! Cables are the only way to go, and when your "Pioneering"
new spots the reverseable gear leg was a must. Since we were the guys making those tracks; that everone else were looking for. Finding out where you can and where you cant can be a very expensive venture! If it looked really tuff n nasty we used to wait till the wind was just right, and try it with a wood prop on in case it all went
south......... Sometimes it did. We used to have a spare prop in the back that we had safety cabled in , so when the wood prop flew into toothpicks, you didnt have to risk another airplane to rescue you. We used to do some unusual stuff for a monster moose or huge ram............. When the ground guides saw you loading a spare prop and wearing a helmet they knew when
you got back they were going in to a BAD spot!
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