How do you store you logging/tow chain?

[RSKY]

I found my billfold back in August after loosing it in a twenty acre field. Took me an hour and forty five minutes walking to find it. People at the bank though it hilarious when I brought in the chopped up bills to get them replaced. Especially when I took them out of my chopped up wallet.

Bad thing about it is that the wallet was a ten year old Coach brand that was solid leather. Even inside the pouches it was leather. Credit cards would not fall out but would come out with a gentle tug. I could not find another of any brand without the insides of the card pockets being cloth and the cards falling out ever time I opened it. Luckily we purchased one as a gift for my father in law when I got mine and he had never used it. So he gave it to me.

Had mowed on the same tractor for forty years and never lost a wallet and had it fall out twice in one month.

 

[ArlyA]

In our UTV, we purchased a plastic ammo box and store in beneath the seat as seen in photos. There are 2 choker chains in the box, one rather short and the other 15ft long. Yes they are smaller gauge chains for UTV use. 5/16 grade 70

 

[specularius]

RSKY,
The King Ranch Saddle shop has an all leather wallet that holds over 10 cards and they stay in place. It is over $100 with shipping but is a great wallet.

 

[Bronco82]

As if I just spent however long reading 323 posts on storing chains. Ah, life with a tractor!

Thanks for all the ideas though!

 

[wesmann]

A little off the thread but there was an old guy on the road crew who plowed my stretch of road. He kept the chain under the truck seat near the heater. When I got stuck the chain he gave me was warm. Pretty nice at 5 below.

 

[Threepoint]

A little off the thread but there was an old guy on the road crew who plowed my stretch of road. He kept the chain under the truck seat near the heater. When I got stuck the chain he gave me was warm. Pretty nice at 5 below.

Ha! But that's where I'd keep my hot pastrami sandwiches.

 

[W8BYA]

I like to have my chain with me at all times but haven't found a good place to put it on my tractor. How do you deal with this? Thanks.

So many great ideas. Since fabricating a long steel bar that I welded on 3 seperate hooks that are bolted to the top of my loader I always keep a 16' long 3/8" chain looped around the outer two most hooks nice & tight. Works well because the chain is never inside the bucket, tight enough not to rattle around and scratch paint and is always available to pull someone of something out. Don't have a pic of the chain wrapped around the hooks but here is the newly installed bar stock & hooks.

 

[Threepoint]

So many great ideas. Since fabricating a long steel bar that I welded on 3 seperate hooks that are bolted to the top of my loader I always keep a 16' long 3/8" chain looped around the outer two most hooks nice & tight. Works well because the chain is never inside the bucket, tight enough not to rattle around and scratch paint and is always available to pull someone of something out. Don't have a pic of the chain wrapped around the hooks but here is the newly installed bar stock & hooks.

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Nice fabrication job!

Maybe a slight risk, but one I'd stay alert for, is the chain loosening and dropping down off the hooks onto your hood unexpectedly when the bucket is raised to full extension and rolled back.

 

[W8BYA]

Nice fabrication job!

Maybe a slight risk, but one I'd stay alert for, is the chain loosening and dropping down off the hooks onto your hood unexpectedly when the bucket is raised to full extension and rolled back.

Thanks ! That is a very good observation and something that I will certainly keep an eye out for and had not considered even though I try to keep the chain pretty tightly wound.

 

[WranglerX]

IN bucket under work bench.... Only take it out when I need it....

Dale

 

[AWSubie]

I removed the passenger side step and replaced it with a tool box.
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Why didn't I think of that! This is my next welding project. Thanks!

 

[sixdogs]

I removed the passenger side step and replaced it with a tool box.
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Very creative idea

 

[flashpuppy]

Thanks ! That is a very good observation and something that I will certainly keep an eye out for and had not considered even though I try to keep the chain pretty tightly wound.

A couple of the D style pins that you could put through the chain to make sure it can loosen would be a cheap and easy but of added assurance.

 

[W8BYA]

A couple of the D style pins that you could put through the chain to make sure it can loosen would be a cheap and easy but of added assurance.

You know you might be on to something. I am wondering if I could not add a couple of dedicated posts of some kind to wrap the chain around and have each of the two posts have a mechanism like the D-style or similar to keep it tightly in place......hmmmm

 

[Threepoint]

I removed the passenger side step and replaced it with a tool box.
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I just realized this post and pics by nvmyhd are three years old, and he hasn't posted since June 2016. So I guess I can't ask him how this has held up for him. :laughing: In particular, I'm wondering if the toolbox is sturdy enough to use as a step when necessary. Being able to get on and off the tractor from either side is important to me.

My open-station CK3510HST SE came with only one step, on the left side, although there are reinforced threaded mounting holes on the right side as well, and the step is designed to mount on either side. So I ordered and mounted a second one for the right side as well! :laughing:

So, still haven't decided how to carry chains on the CK. May just end up sleeving the torque tube and keeping one there. On my NX, they stay in a small bucket in the cab, and that works fine.

 

[Xfaxman]

I just realized this post and pics by nvmyhd are three years old, and he hasn't posted since June 2016. So I guess I can't ask him how this has held up for him. :laughing: In particular, I'm wondering if the toolbox is sturdy enough to use as a step when necessary. Being able to get on and off the tractor from either side is important to me.

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[wesmann]

I stored some of my best chains under leaves in the woods until I painted the ends flourescent green. Now I can find them.

 

[fruitcakesa]

I wrap them around the 3 point hitch arms

 

[Paul Thornton]

In a pipe.

 

[Smokeydog]