Wal
Silver Member
OK, this was not my original idea, I read about it here while scanning old posts about chains, traction, and such. After attempting to deal with VERY hard packed snow and ice on our hilly, rural gravel road, I decided to get some "duo-traction" chains for my B7500HST. They arrived a couple days ago, I put them on the next day, and headed out to the road from my pole barn. First thing I thought was, "Gee, I guess I'm going to have to get a kidney belt." It felt like my tires had suddenly become square instead of round. Oh well, I thought, thats the price you pay for traction on ice! I could hardly wait to get the steepest, most icy part of our road to see what these new chains can do! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Mind you, this is the spot where previously I could just barely creep up the hill in 4WD WITH the rear differential locked! But this time, I HAD CHAINS! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif OK, now here I go . . . . . . thumpity, thumpity, thumpity, thumpity . . . . . .Hmmmmmmmmm, I'm not movin' /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif What the heck!!! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif I wasn't going any better than WITHOUT chains, but my butt was sure taking a pounding /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Dang, wished I hadn't had to cut some lengh off those chains, maybe I could'a returned them /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Oh well, live and learn /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. OK, on to plan "B", which I was hesitant to do, but dog gone it, it seems to have worked for OTHER people! If you want to save yourself BIG BUCKS, try this before you spring for chains. Get yourself a bunch of hex head, sheet metal screws (I used about 100 #12x3/4 per rear tire) I screwed two into the thickest part of each tire lug. Be sure not to use screws that are too long /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif for reasons that should be obvious! I slightly alternated positions on each lug as I went along, so as to not have them all lined up in a perfect row as the tire rolls. It took me about 30 minutes to do each tire, and an investment of about $13.00 in screws. The result . . . . . . . . . . . . /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Woo, hooooo.
Even though I only did the rear tires, I now have GREAT traction on that nasty old slab of ice/road. I'm not even going to bother doing the front, which I had planned on doing at first.
Even though I only did the rear tires, I now have GREAT traction on that nasty old slab of ice/road. I'm not even going to bother doing the front, which I had planned on doing at first.
