I have about a half dozen of those cheap HF LED lights pen light that are better than a candle but not much brighter. I finally bit the bullet and spent $25 on a good Coleman LED and man is it bright and spots for a hundred feet or more. I do like the little oval shaped magnetic one with about 20 LED lights, it is handy to stick up when working under the lawnmower deck or in a dark crevice so you can have some light.
The thing I like best is the grade 70 chains. I have a couple that I think I paid $19 each for in 3/8" x 20 foot. I looked at one in a F&R store today and they wanted $80 for a 20 footer. Got to get me some more of those HF chains if they ever go on sale again. I haven't seen them listed I quite a while though.
Gary, here's a case where who do you trust...would you crawl under your ten foot mower held up by the $19 grade 70's, or the $80 ones? Are they both really grade 70?
Now you may be using these as dragging chains, so the example is poor, but I'm sure you could adjust to fit. No one wants a chain to fail. It can get really exciting and really dangerous amazingly fast.
Now if you are going to start your own chain lab, perhaps you could find a big tree and get your neighbor's dozer and have a pull off. not sure how to do that safely though,
other than in lab equipment purpose built. Bottom line is how strong is HF chain? I wonder if anyone has broken any of their chain.
For pulling stuff out of the woods, I think the cheaper chain might be fine, particularly if sized for the job. But for auto extrication or lifting, I'd be nervous as can be trusting
any Chinese product for reliably meeting international spec. Maybe that's unfair, and maligns many top quality companies, but after the sheetrock debacle and then the contaminated food, it was pretty clear to me that too many Chinese companies had a copy it, make it, throw it against the wall, and see what sticks operational plan. And grossly inadequate government oversight in areas we take for granted here.
And when the chain link severs and the next link embeds itself in the dozer's rear cab window, well, I was
never here...