How do you "mark / identify" your chains

[pharmvet]

May sound silly, but you know all chains look alike and its really easy for your buddy to say "thats my chain" or borrow yours and forget where it lives. Do any of you mark your chains? If so, Id like to know how. I just got through painting mine flourescent orange. Dont know how long the paint will last, but I thought Id give it a try. thanks

 

[ToadHill]

I spray all my tools and things like chains with yellow paint, it will get into all cracks or crevices and none of my friends uses yellow. Also makes them easy to see when they get dropped.

Have to repaint every few years but paint is a lot cheaper than tools.

 

[Q-Saw]

I painted the grab hooks orange to match my tractor. My buddy saw it and he decided to paint his entire chain for identification. He painted his chains one color and his son's chains (and binders) another color.

I actually only did it to my 10' foot chains to distinguish them quickly from my 20' chains. I'm thinking of color coding my 20' chains so I can identify them as mine.

I was surprised how the paint has lasted on the grab hooks. I thought it would wear off pretty quickly, but it hasn't.

- Marty

 

[George2615]

Most of the time all my chains stay with my truck and trailer. I keep them in a 5 gallon bucket to move them around. If someone wants to borrow a chain I too have painted the grab hooks to ID them as mine.

 

[archerm3]

Makes me sad to think that I had a favorite 8' piece of chain that disappeared and in it's place was another one with crappy bent hook on one end and a loop on the other. I think it was the guy that came out to harvest some junk steel in the weeds.

I used to paint all my tools flourescent orange to tell them apart from my buddies when I was younger, in the army, and sharing automotive craft shop with my friends.

Methinks some pink paint is in order.

 

[chh]

A company sent me a sample spray can of flouresent pink paint. I used it on all my fence building tools(stretchers, pliers, hammers, t post driver, ect). It made them easy to find and nobody and I mean nobody asks to borrow them. I may have to order some of it, I'm thinking every chain. binder, and decent tool I own may end up that color.

I did paint a lot of my tools red at one time, my exFIL kept claiming every tool I had was his so I painted mine. He wasn't happy.

 

[Soundguy]

I paint parts of mine red.. that and they all have replaced ends and are not good looking.. most people DON'T think my chains are theres..

soundguy

 

[Duffster]

We use Brass cow tags with the truck number they belong to.

 

[pharmvet]

Please be specific on the brass cow tags. Im interested in some sort of ID tag as well as the paint. Do you attach them with a quick link or what? thanks

 

[Duffster]

Please be specific on the brass cow tags. Im interested in some sort of ID tag as well as the paint. Do you attach them with a quick link or what? thanks

Solid Brass Tag with Straight Link Chain ~ Brass ~ Neck Tags

We use a split ring(looks like a heavy duty key ring), but anything would work.