Paint your chains!

[oosik]

I put my 'ol rusty nasty chains in my portable cement mixer along with a few shovel fulls of sand and gravel. An hour later they are ready to throw in my drum of used motor oil - left over night - hung to drip off.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I put my 'ol rusty nasty chains in my portable cement mixer along with a few shovel fulls of sand and gravel. An hour later they are ready to throw in my drum of used motor oil - left over night - hung to drip off.

I do that exact same procedure with my briefs

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I do that exact same procedure with my briefs

Once a year, or only when they need it?

 

[Alan W.]

Another vote for the metal detector. Bought one years ago to find water vaults and manhole covers buried on jobsites. Now my son uses it to locate brass cases on the range.
Like the tumbling and painting of chains. Something I need to look into.
I have always been terrible about forgetting I had something in the bucket. So I have crushed and buried a lot of things I shouldnt have.

 

[4570Man]

I put my 'ol rusty nasty chains in my portable cement mixer along with a few shovel fulls of sand and gravel. An hour later they are ready to throw in my drum of used motor oil - left over night - hung to drip off.

That must be a real treat. My chains tend to accidentally get covered in oil and it’s absolute torture to deal with them. Whenever they get real bad I take them to my buddy’s shop and hit them with his hot water pressure washer. Dragging my chains inside when I’m done is a WAY easier way of rust prevention. I’ve never had coated chains rust on a trailer deck or toolbox anyway.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Once a year, or only when they need it?

My poor wife washes them separately. I asked her why they get holes in them. She says it's my acid poots