Dog-gone-it, you mean to tell me my tractor was supposed to be ready to work when I got it, well I'm gonna call China and complain. Seriously, I know that we all like things to fit out of the box, but take Curtis blades for instance, they say they make a blade for my TC33D that fits my loader. Well sure they do but when you get it you have to take it to a welder to have the attachment plates fitted to my tractor. Well the first half a dozen times I spoke with them they never made mention of this fact to me. I had to find out on the net just as I did in this question about chains. You can kind of take ownership for helping your fellow tractor owners "banjobj", for if you hadn't said something we all would have been in the same boat thinking they will fit out of the box. But as I say things are not always as they seem, and fitting chains has always been a part of life on the farm. If you think your dealer doesn't have to do some tweaking on your tractor before he delivers it to you , you may be sorely mistaken. But thats part of pre-delivery setup. I hope you don't think I'm being smart but," I always see the glass half full" and if the chains fit the cross width of your tires properly then you may have to remove some sections and thats a fact. I would rather have the cross width right and trim then to have the length right and be too narrow for my tire. Again just my 2 cents worth and I respect all posts as informing us to help our common goal " Enjoying our compact tractors". Hey Gordan call me some time we will talk maybe meet for a chilled beverage some place. Good luck to all and remember if they are telling us about the lenght variation now because of complaints they have changed, and God knows how hard it is for us as men to change. So I give them credit for changing.
Scaper