Mounting tire chains

[dnw64]

Guys, I知 a master mechanic. Cut me some slack.

I hope the first day I stop learning is the day after I die.

 

[PILOON]

Thanks LouNY for posting your pics to help us out with a new idea. I'm on my tenth year of mounting chains and have made notes to myself and am getting better at it. I use the jack method now and find it not so difficult or frustrating. My happiest experience is to mount the chains and then never have enough snow that season to get in it.

Cheers,
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That's my method also.
I generally use a bungee cord to hold the chain as I manually rotate a wheel to wrap the chain on then clip the inner followed by the outer.
Due to minimal fender clearance I also need inner and outer binders.
LOL, this year my jack bit the dust so I had to use a bottle jack.

 

[grsthegreat]

I hope the first day I stop learning is the day after I die.

As you age, you just have to keep learning the same stuff over and over…

 

[frogpond]

Welcome, it took quite a few years for me to start doing this the directions came with one of my sets of chains 5-6 years ago.
I did one tire my way, then tried the way the directions said to, it surprised me to the first time.

I can't seem to visualize why you specify laying the chains out with the outside down.

 

[seville009]

I can't seem to visualize why you specify laying the chains out with the outside down.

because when you pick them up to lay them on top of the tire, the part that was facing down on the ground will now be facing up on the tire.

 

[grsthegreat]

i just put the chains on the tractor today/... always a fun chore

 

[PILOON]

I can't seem to visualize why you specify laying the chains out with the outside down.

That would be especially important if they are V bar ice or studded chains as mine are.
Not so if plain links.

But then even the cross bar attachments should also have the open ends facing outwards as should they stretch and open they could puncture the tire. (I occasionally need to re close some of mine)

 

[LouNY]

I can't seem to visualize why you specify laying the chains out with the outside down.

?????
from post #1;

1) lay the chains out with the outside, the ground contact side facing up
2) tie a short cord to the side chains, the length will depend on your tire size, on mine I end up with a V shape about 3 feet.
3) back up to your chain, take the cord and hang it on the tire treads.
4) drive forward slowly, stopping to spread the chain out on your tire.
5) continue doing this till you have rolled the chain up on the tire and have working room at the rear of the tire
6) your chain should be well centered on your tire and have very little slack.
7) fasten your chains.

 

[CobyRupert]

This is how I put them on. Similar to driving them on, but I just roll the tire and chains come up out of the pail. Easy to center when you can roll tire too.

 

[PILOON]

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This is how I put them on. Similar to driving them on, but I just roll the tire and chains come up out of the pail. Easy to center when you can roll tire too.

Not far off from what I do.
But this year my jack quit (OH coming up) so I used a small bottle jack.
I also use 'bungee' cords to help hold as I roll the tire loading my studded chains.

But all is well now as we've experienced our 2nd snow event.
No sheered bolts, frozen ground, all good to go 'til next spring.

 

[joeyd]

i just put the chains on the tractor today/... always a fun chore

I put mine on last week, now waiting to get to use the tractor. The atv has been cleaning up the few inches we've picked up.

 

[grsthegreat]

had 4" of snow today....no plans on doing anything with it. will get warmer later this week. high yesterday 22, today 28, wed its supposed to me 39/

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Not far off from what I do.
But this year my jack quit (OH coming up) so I used a small bottle jack.
I also use 'bungee' cords to help hold as I roll the tire loading my studded chains.

But all is well now as we've experienced our 2nd snow event.
No sheered bolts, frozen ground, all good to go 'til next spring.

I first lift the wheels off of the ground and crib them. I then pull the Schrader valves out of the tires to deflate my tires (because the beet juice clogs the valves when they are merely cracked open and makes a mess). Once deflated, I then reinstall the valves back int the valve stems. I then puzzle out which way the forestry studs should go and then (ideally) have a buddy helping so that while one of us is using a chain binder to pull the chains together at the top of the tire, the other person is adjusting the chains draping on the sides that get caught on the tire lugs. The second person also supplies an extra set of hands to screw in the pins into the clevises that my chains use to hold the chains together.

After the chains are mounted, I install a spring-loaded tensioner to help keep the chains biased toward the outside of wheel, air the tires back up to 25psi, and finally drop the tractor back down onto the ground ready to go!

 

[TractorTYMe]

I mounted chains all around yesterday, we have mostly slushy summers in Montana anymore. Wetsnow/rain/freeze/ice........I have a FEL plow, so steering gets light all the time. Figured it was time to chain up on all four.

 

[SGreene]

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I mounted chains all around yesterday, we have mostly slushy summers in Montana anymore. Wetsnow/rain/freeze/ice........I have a FEL plow, so steering gets light all the time. Figured it was time to chain up on all four.

Kalispell is so mild anymore. I think the last major winter the whole NW MT area has had was 1996-97 when I was in Libby. We left Kal 4yrs ago for a real wintery high elevation area south of Jackson WY and tooled up into a Kioti NX6010 to combat the constant wind drifting. But when we move back to MT it's questionable if I'll need that much tractor again.

 

[TractorTYMe]

Kalispell is so mild anymore. I think the last major winter the whole NW MT area has had was 1996-97 when I was in Libby. We left Kal 4yrs ago for a real wintery high elevation area south of Jackson WY and tooled up into a Kioti NX6010 to combat the constant wind drifting. But when we move back to MT it's questionable if I'll need that much tractor again.

Yeah, they've had whinings about warnings of winterstorms of 1 - 2 feet over the passes, and it was never below 34F all weekend even at night. So I didn't get ANY snow.

 

[CADplans]

The first time I tried to plow snow with the 4105, I spun around a couple times, and ended up in the apple orchard,,
That resulted in a photogenic picture, but, no snow got plowed,,

The 4105 has a HST, and no steering brakes, without steering brakes, the tractor needs front chains in snow.
I happened to have a set of chains that came with a Mitsubishi MT372, from LONG ago.

Those chains dropped right on the front of the JD 4105.

No fighting, no jack is needed, simply lay the chain over the tire, and flip the lever on the outside hook.
Put the tensioner on, plow snow.

The 584 IH has not had snow duty since I figured out how to chain the front tires on the 4105,,

 

[Mtsoxfan]

For us smaller tractor guys (TC29D) I just jacked it up and turned tires by hand. Super easy for the size.

 

[grsthegreat]

They had a fema warning posted for our area to expect 10-20” of snow. We got 4” then 40°. Now lots of slop.

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[CobyRupert]

The first time I tried to plow snow with the 4105, I spun around a couple times, and ended up in the apple orchard,,
That resulted in a photogenic picture, but, no snow got plowed,,

Your rear blade looks like it would leak live a sieve!

…but many people’s driveways probably should be screened for “surprises” before a snowblower finds them.