I have to agree that the gear on the Tomahawk is quite strong. I have
give nearly 400 hours of primary instruction in Tomahawks and find it
to handle Crosswinds better than many(most?) GA aircraft. But then I
seldom Crab for a cross wind prefering instead to side slip.

One would have to hit incredibly hard to break a Tomahawk gear off. On
the other hand I have seen some strange combinations of loads break
things that one would think would not be even close. Perhaps the
combination of a very hard landing and the side load would be enough to
do it. or perhaps the gear had previously been damanged and the hard
X-wind landing was enough to finish it.

Brian
CFIIG/ASEL