Re: Tire chain questions?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 19, 2004 at 05:32:08 from (209.226.247.164):

In Reply to: Tire chain questions? posted by Phil from Maryland on December 18, 2004 at 17:51:48:

Phil: Just looking at your Maryland address, my recomendation would be go with regular cross chains. You are not going to have ice and hard frozen ground being a factor.

I have used them all from big skidder ring corked chains, double ring, ice chains and regular cross chains. The secret to regular cross chains is not keeping them too tight. Tighten them so you can nicely put your arm between cross chain and tire just where it leaves the ground. This way the chain set actually counter rotates on tire as you travel. This will keep the cross chains clean and out of tire treads. Only one good reason for keeping regular cross chains tight, that being speeds of 10 mph or more.

I have plowed snow with everything from my Farmall SA to a Champion road grader. On both those I used regular cross chains, quick to put on and take off as you are not spending time tightening. If you want to go down the highway in high gear you just take chains off and hang them on behind.

The other types must be kept tight as the corks, spikes, etc. will damage tires if not tight. I have used these on John Deere forestry skidders, Farmalls 130, 300, 560 and 656. They give excellent traction, but are also very capable of breaking things. The only time I ever broke a final drive on 130 was using ice chains. Also twisted an axle on Farmall 300 using corked ring chains. European tractor manufacturers from the 50s, 60s and 70s would not even stand behind warrenty on drive train if they found you had been using ring and ice chains.

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