Re: (ET) chain

[Max Hall <mhall maxmatic com>]

I used to "drive on" to my chains (lay them on the ground like a ladder in front of the rear wheels, then drive to about the halfway point) when I had a 2WD pick-up truck. You can get good at it, but it's a pain. The hard part was always the side links on the insides of the wheels... when it was cold, and icy, and like that.

Jacking the vehicle up is great by comparison... pretty easy to skootch the chains around, pretty easy to rotate the wheel to get the best position for twiddling links. Deflate and re-inflate ("reflate"?) is a good suggestion.

Best of all, though (if your wheels don't weight 800 lbs ea!), is taking the wheels right off. On the ET it's pretty quick.

-Max, waiting for snow, or not, fine either way.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Charlie <medievalist gmail com> wrote:

I have studded rear tires, all year round, thanks to Harold.  My story
is that they aerate my lawn and anything else I feel like driving
over.  We haven't had any real snow down here in Delaware for a couple
of years now so I don't know how well they will do in a drift.  But I
figure if I run into a situation where the studs aren't enough grip
I'll switch to ag tires rather than going with chains.

Back in the day Grandad put chains on the Buick by driving on to them
first, though.  Seemed pretty straightforward, as long as you took off
your wheel skirts first.

--Charlie

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Doug McCorkle <dmccorkl sover net> wrote:
> I keep seeing all these complicated ways of putting chains on!  Granted, my
> tires are old and hard, and I have hilly terrain to mow so I leave mine on
> all year, but, IIRC, when I put mine on a few years ago:
>
>                lay them out straight on the ground
>
>                drive onto them so the tires are in the middle of the chains
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>                wrap them around and fasten them up!
>
> Is there something I was missing and should have made it harder?
>
> I think that's basically how one puts chains on cars, although I don't have
> to do that, either.
>
> Doug McCorkle
>
> Alltraxed E15 on perpetual chains
>
>
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> From: Robert Troll [mailto:roberttroll hotmail com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:44 AM
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> Subject: Re: (ET) chain
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:29:39 -0500
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>> Subject: Re: (ET) chains
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>> On 2/27/2013 8:13 AM, Ferguson Apiaries wrote:
>> > Chains sure make the difference.
>>
>> They make a big difference. With chains I can pretty much crawl up an
>> icy hill pushing the snowblower.
>>
>> How do you put them on? My way is:
>  *****************************************
>
> Remove wheel.
> Deflate tire.
> Install chains snugly.
> Re-inflate tire.
> Install wheel.
>
>

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