Tire chains?

[oldngray]

something like this

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Different rules for different areas I guess. I chain up several times per year on average. My state does not allow salt on the roads, and only the main roads get plowed, so chaining up is a necessity.


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No salt on the roads? Wow, ice skating in the brown trucks....

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Only if it causes.... some sort of damage.



-Bug-

No, we are specifically told before each winter that if we get stuck and it costs the company money we will get charged with an accident.

 

[over9five]

No, we are specifically told before each winter that if we get stuck and it costs the company money we will get charged with an accident.

I guess at that point you have to laugh and say "OK!".

 

[toonertoo]

Different rules for different areas I guess. I chain up several times per year on average. My state does not allow salt on the roads, and only the main roads get plowed, so chaining up is a necessity.


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I guess. No one in my center has ever used them. That I know of. We dont have huge mountains, and passes we have to go through either. Just roads and a hill or two.

 

[olroadbeech]

I cant believe the whining ! im 5 foot nothing. a hundred pounds and nothing and having been chaining every year for 10 years in feeder.

we check our chains before the season starts, get all the necessary stuff we need and exchange chains we don't like.

I can put a full set of 50-80 pound chains on a set of doubles in 20-30 minutes depending on conditions.

come on, man up guys.

 

[oldngray]

I cant believe the whining ! im 5 foot nothing. a hundred pounds and nothing and having been chaining every year for 10 years in feeder.

we check our chains before the season starts, get all the necessary stuff we need and exchange chains we don't like.

I can put a full set of 50-80 pound chains on a set of doubles in 20-30 minutes depending on conditions.

come on, man up guys.

Chains are illegal for normal driving here so can only be used in an emergency to get unstuck then they have to come off. And they are cheap junk chains that break. Its not a matter of putting chains on and driving with them all day.

 

[rod]

Its been proven that if you get stuck you can throw your 2-wheeled cart under the tires for traction. Its also been proven that once you do this you have to get a new 2-wheeler.

 

[Brownslave688]

I cant believe the whining ! im 5 foot nothing. a hundred pounds and nothing and having been chaining every year for 10 years in feeder.

we check our chains before the season starts, get all the necessary stuff we need and exchange chains we don't like.

I can put a full set of 50-80 pound chains on a set of doubles in 20-30 minutes depending on conditions.

come on, man up guys.

What are u talking about. I didn't hear anyone whining. Just stating the equipment sucks. Also ever think that our package car chains are different than your feeder chains? As someone else said we don't have full sets of chains here. Just a thin strip they are worthless. Traction strips have worked out much better for me over the years.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

I cant believe the whining ! im 5 foot nothing. a hundred pounds and nothing and having been chaining every year for 10 years in feeder.

we check our chains before the season starts, get all the necessary stuff we need and exchange chains we don't like.

I can put a full set of 50-80 pound chains on a set of doubles in 20-30 minutes depending on conditions.

come on, man up guys.

Who was whining....I didn't hear anything.....

 

[over9five]

Who was whining....I didn't hear anything.....

The only whining I heard was someone whining about people whining.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

The only whining I heard was someone whining about people whining.

Yay... another attention wh***. Am I the exception, rather than the rule? lol

 

[oldngray]

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

There are a couple of different sizes of chains and I think different ones fit the newer smaller tires. I agree the newer chains frequently break. They are cheap junk. I usually used those traction strips if possible.

MDC is getting Chinese made chains now instead of the good Pewag Austrian chains.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

My experience has been that 99% of the time chains break because they arent properly installed. Most people dont hook the inside loop tight enough because its hard to reach, so over the course of a day the chain will pull crooked and the inside of the tire will start running on the outer chain ring. They also break if you dont properly untangle them. Do yours look like this? View attachment 11273


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You have them inside out. Other than that, it looks good. The hooks on the crosslinks should face outward or they gouge the tire sidewalls.

 

[toonertoo]

yah, I didnt hear whining either. Must be an echo.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

yah, I didnt hear whining either. Must be an echo.

Do I dare suggest it maybe was just a ruse to slip her physical dimensions into a post? What do I know....

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Lonely UPS guy stuck in the country. Yea, sure, giving you a tow is just what they're dying to do.

"You got a real purty mouth"

 

[toonertoo]

Do I dare suggest it maybe was just a ruse to slip her physical dimensions into a post? What do I know....

When I was born maybe..............

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

When I was born maybe..............

Got tickets to these these guys in July...