Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Tire chain storeage???

pmsmechanic · Apr 11, 2014

Store the chains on nails horizontally and they shouldn't be to heavy to lift.

leonz · Apr 11, 2014

I guess I better think about removing them BUUUT Mud Season is here UGGHH!!!!!

Blade Breaker · Apr 11, 2014

In a pile on a plank on the dirt floor in our barn where my gradpa always had them. Any worries of tire chains rusting away are greatly exaggerated. Sounds like a huge mess to oil your tire chains. The tire chains we have have been modified a few times to fit different tractors. They are worn quite a bit. Mostly from when my dad had a snow removal business 20 years ago.

IXLR8 · Apr 11, 2014

Bradbilt said:
Seriously? Too heavy? Do you need your tractors too pick them up? LOL

When you have a bad knee and a bad back, lifting heavy things too high can be a recipe for disaster. I have no intention of blowing my back out again. Putting them on I just put one end on the wheel and then rotate the wheel. I don't have to lift the chain more than 4' and I don't have to lift more than 1/3 the weight of the chain.

MH8675309 · Apr 11, 2014

I use 12'' long nails that are about 1/2 '' in diameter. Two of these nailed into the barn posts store a 32' fiberglass extension ladder on the wall too. My chains are still on though since its still pretty muddy here.

silvertramp · Apr 12, 2014

I wax each individual link.

Blade Breaker · Apr 12, 2014

silvertramp said:
I wax each individual link.

Fantastic!

corl · Apr 12, 2014

With no significant rust after 25 years on my chains without using any protectives, coating the chains and links with anything would be unproductive and a waste of time and money. The chains will wear out before they rust away. I haven't bought new chains in over 40 years. I do wear them out in about 20-25 years.

Bradbilt · Apr 12, 2014

Agreed.

MAYBE if someone wanted to wash some salt off by rinsing them with the hose at the end of the season, but "oiling" them is a Complete waste of time, on top of a mess

I still have the chains on my 8n that my dad bought in 1970 and it still has the original chains on it. gets used Every winter to plow snow

PILOON · Apr 13, 2014

silvertramp said:
I wax each individual link.

And I presume buff with a dremmel tool.

silvertramp · Apr 13, 2014

PILOON said:
And I presume buff with a dremmel tool.

It's time consuming but worth it. I'm considering getting them chromed.

crazyal · Apr 13, 2014

Since the box they came in had the weight, 243 lbs, listed I'm not about to lift them by hand to hang on the wall. So I just use the loader to lift them up to the second floor of the barn/ garage and drag them to a corner for the summer. No oil and no straightening out. I suppose you could mount a couple of steel wheels from a car onto the wall and wrap the chains around them.

8N Ren · Apr 13, 2014

PILOON said:
And I presume buff with a dremmel tool.

silvertramp said:
It's time consuming but worth it. I'm considering getting them chromed.

Time consuming is an understatement!
Are your tire chains made of gold or platinum!?
Can't understand why you would do that lol

ovrszd · Apr 13, 2014

I've been around tire chains for 55 years. I've never saw one rust thru. Guess I just haven't lived long enough yet.

I thought I was OCD until I read this thread. I'm fine.

brokenknee · Apr 13, 2014

8N Ren said:
Time consuming is an understatement!
Are your tire chains made of gold or platinum!?
Can't understand why you would do that lol

pretty sure they are just pulling your chain. :laughing:

94BULLITT · Apr 13, 2014

silvertramp said:
It's time consuming but worth it. I'm considering getting them chromed.

I take the cross links off of mine and throw them in a tumbler to polish them to a mirror like shine. It is faster than the dremel method.

HillStreet · Apr 13, 2014

I removed my rear chains from the B2320 yesterday and hung them in the shed. Drove a 20d galvanized nail into 2 x 4 studs 16 inches apart and hung both sets of chains with one nail holding each side link. No problem holding the weight.

Oh, and I did not apply any rust prevention, they'll last a long time without it.

oldballs · Apr 13, 2014

Actually I keep mine in a Safe Deposit Box....so there....with my gold bullion

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JGL · Apr 14, 2014

April 14, the road that goes to my woodlot is impassible, still covered with snow . It looks like the chains might stay till late May or June. Maple sugar production is all but done for this year, with one quarter of what we usually get. Temperatures were not good this year for the sap to run.