how do you store your tire chains ?
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Cougsfan
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I think you should store them in your freezer so they stay used to cold temperatures. (I don't do this though, I just hang them on a hook)
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Yeah, that thermocycling is hard on them... metallurgically speaking.
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I store them on my rear tires year round. 
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Well I just dropped mine off the tractors this weekend, they are in a pile on the lawn till some of the mud gets washed off them, then I'll put them in a small barrel.
Also swapped out the studded snows for the summer tires on my pickup and my wifes car so I'm waiting for a heck of a April storm now.
Also swapped out the studded snows for the summer tires on my pickup and my wifes car so I'm waiting for a heck of a April storm now.
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What a neat tractor! If they had tractor demolition derby's, I'd bet yours would come out unscathed.
Dont know about that but I can drive through the woods without having limbs hitting me and on a cold day thats a good thing. I just cant understand how people work in the woods with their farm tractor and not get a branch side the head without a screen for protection.
Oaktree
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My tractor chains get stored in a plastic milk crate in my garage, close to where I'll be when I put 'em on or take them off. Those sucka's are heavy! Enough ventilation in the crate so that any moisture that's on them dries up quickly.
ATV chains hung on a hook in the woodshed.
ATV chains hung on a hook in the woodshed.
Oaktree
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Who says we don't? :laughing:
I do have some trees on the property that are thorny...I make sure I stay clear of them!
My chains are not that big or heavy or hard to put on a 11.2-24 tire, it's just the hook-up that I have to rethink after 7 months of being off, like where the clevises go and how much back threading of the hold to together chains and where they hook on the side chains, it hurts to re-think.
So in 4 hours I can have them on but only takes 1 hr to take them off, just unbolt the clevises, unlatch the side chains, drive off, set the re-bars pole down beside them, wire the the side chains to the poles, slide the chains around, set on tractor forks, go hang them on my patented tire chain holder and forget about it til next November-ish......
Maybe the next time I take chains off I'take some pictures, which most likely will happen when I buy new chains or tractor. I figured that I need chains on from Dec-April, November and April are iffy months, I diffidently dont need tire chains on from May to October.
So in 4 hours I can have them on but only takes 1 hr to take them off, just unbolt the clevises, unlatch the side chains, drive off, set the re-bars pole down beside them, wire the the side chains to the poles, slide the chains around, set on tractor forks, go hang them on my patented tire chain holder and forget about it til next November-ish......
Maybe the next time I take chains off I'take some pictures, which most likely will happen when I buy new chains or tractor. I figured that I need chains on from Dec-April, November and April are iffy months, I diffidently dont need tire chains on from May to October.
My roll cage sure does help with the funny Three Stooges limb slap,
:shocked::laughing: but also keeps snow from dumping on my lap when the trees are snow covered, keeps some rain off when I get the flash down pours, keeps a tree from falling on stirring wheel when I should've parked futher away. So besides from all that it also has one other helpful unexpected advantage, it keeps deer-flies from buzzing around and around and landing on my head during the miserable summer months, you probably dont have a deer fly concern living way way over in N.H.
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I am surprised that your forestry cage helps with the deer flies.
Many of our fields have woods on all or most sides those danged things will try and eat you alive in the shade.
One field in particular is almost a quarter of a mile down thru a woods trail and the deer flies just attack everything in that drive,
even in the cab tractors they are trying to get at you, the open stations are miserable.
And as far as tree limb slaps having to watch out for the cabs on the outside pass is almost as bad as using the open station tractors, with the upright exhaust catching the limbs and then letting them slap at you, or the four post units catching them and letting just tips whip at you from the exhaust and then again as the front post clears then the back swing from the rear post.
The two post you only get the exhaust swat and the back slap from the rear risers.
I really don't like tree limbs.:mur:
Many of our fields have woods on all or most sides those danged things will try and eat you alive in the shade.
One field in particular is almost a quarter of a mile down thru a woods trail and the deer flies just attack everything in that drive,
even in the cab tractors they are trying to get at you, the open stations are miserable.
And as far as tree limb slaps having to watch out for the cabs on the outside pass is almost as bad as using the open station tractors, with the upright exhaust catching the limbs and then letting them slap at you, or the four post units catching them and letting just tips whip at you from the exhaust and then again as the front post clears then the back swing from the rear post.
The two post you only get the exhaust swat and the back slap from the rear risers.
I really don't like tree limbs.:mur:
Yup deer flies for some reason wont come under a roof, boy those things are miserable, but I found out a couple years ago my cage wont keep out yellow jackets.
Sounds like the limbs hit you like they did me, but only three times, I said that's enough. I first went in the woods and a limb would slap me then the ROPs would catch the limb and bend it back and I'd get another slap only harder, good way to learn to speak in tongues. Another way to avoid limb slap is to spend the next ten years pruning all trees with pole saw.....................I agree :mur:
zoedog2012
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I like your "sticky notes" good idea!
I mark everything so if I need a wrench I know exactly what size it is. But I have trouble with marking chains, the marks wont stay on due to constant movement or the lack of a paint/marker that the only way the mark comes off if it is ground off.
Oaktree
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I've always called them horse flies, but yeah, we've got plenty of them here too.
They don't bother too much while operating the tractor, but they can be nasty when doing other outside work.
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BigBlue1
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When I had tire chains for my Deere 345 I just threw them back in the bag that they came in to store for summer. Always made sure they were dry before doing that. Lasted well for 20 years that way.
Rob
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