Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Tire chain storeage???

[pmsmechanic]

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

 

[leonz]

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

 

[Blade Breaker]

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]

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]

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]

I wax each individual link.

 

[Blade Breaker]

I wax each individual link.

Fantastic!

 

[corl]

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]

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]

I wax each individual link.

And I presume buff with a dremmel tool.