canoetrpr said:
Where do you park your tractors? Do the vbar chains damage the concrete - if you park them on concrete?
Yes, they will damage concrete. A few strategically placed scraps of plywood has protected my floors for the past few years now with no troubles.
How much hassle are they to put on btw?
They can be a pain until you learn a few tricks... it's a fair amount of weight to hassle with, and you always seem to wait until it's too late to start putting them on (in my case, I have yet to install them in weather that is over about 15 F.
The technique I've settled on (as posted by a member from Norway, if memory serves... can't remember his name or country for sure):
For rear tires: Lay the chain out on the ground behind the tractor, with the side of the chain you want out facing
up (I know this sounds strange, but read on...). Loop a rope through your rim and tie it back on to the
middle of the end cross chain. Do
not tie it to the ends... this just makes more hassle getting it seated. (you can tie the rope at the 1/3 and 2/3 points of the cross chain if you wish). Drive forward. The chain is pulled up and over. Keep driving till the end of the chain you tied is pointing almost straight back (this would be at about the 8 or 9 O'clock position fo rthe right rear tire, 3 or 4 O'clock for the left). With very little fidling, you can just lock your chains on and be good to go.
I've used this technique several times now and am still amazed at how much less work it is than other methods I've tried. It seems to just roll the chains on nice and tight from the start. Some minor shuffling, and I'm done. With other techniques, I either had to spend a whole lot of time shifting the chains around to get them tight, or I'd lock them on after a bit of adjustment, then drive around a bit and get off and re-tighten. No need for that now.
John Mc