How much tire chain
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Destructo_D
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Northland said:
Unfortunatly we don't at this moment.... the company is about 11 or 12 years old.. I have been there 2 1/2 years... They are working on it... I keep telling them to hurry up and get it done as business would skyrocket.
SpringHollow
Elite Member
I installed the studded Norse chains as well - they are great:\http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/power-trac/114256-installed-studded-tire-chains-pt.html
Ken
Ken
Northland
Platinum Member
atgreene said:
I tried and did manage to add and remove cross chains without these pliers and your right...better to have bought the pliers. I used a railway spike, a small sledge hammer and an old vise on my garage floor and it was a long sweaty, swearing battle.
As far as reversing the front tires/wheels-on our particular model of tractor many TBN's have done this without any adverse effects...at least not yet. I had to reverse wheels in order for chains to go on the front tires. I can't make do without the chains.
moeh1
Gold Member
I wish I had those chain pliers also....I use a set of bolt cutters (gently) to open up the joint far enough to allow it to be pried open. Works for the occasion where you only have an odd link to deal with.
We had a cold crisp day up in the northeast. Perfect day for skidding with 4" of snow on the ground. I got to have ample seat time and really rung out my just installed tire chains. Somehow my original order got screwed up from Tirechains.com and instead of sending me vbar ladders, I received standard twist link. As I was anxious to start getting wood in once again, I just kept them and laced them up back and front. Fronts were 2 link at least. I wasn't expecting that much but was pleasntly surprised at the amount of traction gained. It was actually better than uncovered land with no snow and running unchained R1's. Skidding is now a joy and was taking out bigger stuff than normal such as a dead 40' oak stem at 18" at the base. (that snow on the ground acts like WD40 for log skidding) I wish I was tech savvy and knew how to place pictures from my digital up here for people to see. This would give anyone else with tire chain questions some info on what even the simplest chains are capable of. I can only imagine how effective those studded ice chains would be in this situation or even the vbars for that matter. For 200 bucks , I can live with what I got however. Thanks to all who contributed.
Northland
Platinum Member
Thanks Northland
Your cut is about the same size as my JD 750. I wish they sent me the vbars but yours must dig in like crazy. Ok, can you tell me how to get the pictures out of my camera and onto this site? I notice on my handheld it has what looks like a miniture usb socket. I'm thinking that must have something to do with transfering pictures directly from the camera only I can't say for sure. I'm really pathetic about this tech stuff. My computer only seems to have the standard usb ports so already I'm lost
Lou
Your cut is about the same size as my JD 750. I wish they sent me the vbars but yours must dig in like crazy. Ok, can you tell me how to get the pictures out of my camera and onto this site? I notice on my handheld it has what looks like a miniture usb socket. I'm thinking that must have something to do with transfering pictures directly from the camera only I can't say for sure. I'm really pathetic about this tech stuff. My computer only seems to have the standard usb ports so already I'm lost
Lou
Northland
Platinum Member
Yes Lou-that miniture USB end goes into your camera and the other end of the cable goes into one of your USB ports on yor PC.
After your camera and PC are turned on the PC should find the new device (your camera) and a pop-up should ask you what you want to do. You should copy the files from your camera to a new folder on your desktop (nmain PC screen).
From there when in TBN (and creating a new thread or replying to one) you need to click on the paperclip in the tool bar which will prompt you to go to one of the jpg files in that new folder on your desktop.
Once you have done it once it will be easy-like most things.
good luck and do put up some pictures
After your camera and PC are turned on the PC should find the new device (your camera) and a pop-up should ask you what you want to do. You should copy the files from your camera to a new folder on your desktop (nmain PC screen).
From there when in TBN (and creating a new thread or replying to one) you need to click on the paperclip in the tool bar which will prompt you to go to one of the jpg files in that new folder on your desktop.
Once you have done it once it will be easy-like most things.
good luck and do put up some pictures
Northland
Platinum Member
arrow said:
Good Man Lou!
When you reply to a message or create a new messahe here in the TBN forum at the top of the window and to the right of the font/font size/font color/happy face is a paper clip icon. If you click on that icon you can browse to your desktop pictures and gettum on here
I dicked around installing my newly purchased 5 foor used snowblower most of the afternoon. It was -17C
but I go it on and workingSorry Northland
There is nothing appearing on my window as you described. No happy face or font choices. The only thing I can think of is my Google tool bar may be hiding the very top. The first thing I see is "The Worlds Largest tractor Community" At the bottom under Additional Options ther is an "Attach files" box but when I go in there, there doesn't seem to be anyway to get the file on to the message reply.
From the looks of the amount of snow you get up there, that blower should come in handy. Ther was a guy on ebay recently selling a JD 850 with a 5' front mounted blower. This tractor had no power steering. The tractor had 400 hrs on it and went for $6500. That blower alone had to cost nearly 3 grand when new. Somebody got a bargin. He's definitely wanting to fit a ps unit on there. I hear those front units are a bear to handle even with ps.
There is nothing appearing on my window as you described. No happy face or font choices. The only thing I can think of is my Google tool bar may be hiding the very top. The first thing I see is "The Worlds Largest tractor Community" At the bottom under Additional Options ther is an "Attach files" box but when I go in there, there doesn't seem to be anyway to get the file on to the message reply.
From the looks of the amount of snow you get up there, that blower should come in handy. Ther was a guy on ebay recently selling a JD 850 with a 5' front mounted blower. This tractor had no power steering. The tractor had 400 hrs on it and went for $6500. That blower alone had to cost nearly 3 grand when new. Somebody got a bargin. He's definitely wanting to fit a ps unit on there. I hear those front units are a bear to handle even with ps.
EdC
Gold Member
Lou
I am going to try and attach a screenshot of the screen Northland is talking about. I get to it by going through "Post Reply" that is after the last post. Hope this works. I saved it as a Word file. The "paperclip" is on the top row near the black and white smily face.
I am going to try and attach a screenshot of the screen Northland is talking about. I get to it by going through "Post Reply" that is after the last post. Hope this works.
I saved it as a Word file. The "paperclip" is on the top row near the black and white smily face.Thanks ED
I do not get that view on my screen. It shows just the reply box w/out any of the surroundings as shown in your clip to me. I tried logging out and back in but that still didn't work. If this site wasn't free I could say that I'm not getting my moneys worth. Maybe they know I am tech dumb and they didn't want to make things too complicated for me.
Lou
I do not get that view on my screen. It shows just the reply box w/out any of the surroundings as shown in your clip to me. I tried logging out and back in but that still didn't work. If this site wasn't free I could say that I'm not getting my moneys worth. Maybe they know I am tech dumb and they didn't want to make things too complicated for me.
Lou
Danno1
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Arrow,
I don't have all those icons either. But when you have the name of your jpeg in the attach files box you can hit "preview post" and you will see it appear in the post. Then just hit ""submit reply".
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Arrow,
I don't have all those icons either. But when you have the name of your jpeg in the attach files box you can hit "preview post" and you will see it appear in the post. Then just hit ""submit reply".
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EdC
Gold Member
Lou
There are a couple of ways to resize a .jpeg or .jpg. lots of software programs have some sort of reduce size or resize commands. Another way is to lie to the computer and pretend you are emailing the picture. I LIKE lying to my computer makes me feel like I'm in charge (Ha). This is using Windows XP Pro and Firefox as a browser but other operating systems should be pretty close.
Anyhow. Single click on the picture then right click and select "Send To" from the drop down menu that shows up. Next, there should be another drop down selection called "Mail Recipient" or something like that. Click on that selection.
Next there should be a popup window titled something along the lines of "Send Pictures Via Email or Send Mail and one of the selections on that popup is to make pictures smaller. Go ahead an click on that.
Next you'll see an compose email form with the reduced picture in the attachments block, put your cursor arrow over that attachment and it will give the location of the reduced image file. Each OS and browser is different so I can't tell you what it will be but find that file because that is the one that is the reduced size and want to attach.
Jeesh, I've just written the Great American novel trying to describe something that is not hard after you have done it once or twice, sorry if I have confused things more.
There are a couple of ways to resize a .jpeg or .jpg. lots of software programs have some sort of reduce size or resize commands. Another way is to lie to the computer and pretend you are emailing the picture. I LIKE lying to my computer makes me feel like I'm in charge (Ha). This is using Windows XP Pro and Firefox as a browser but other operating systems should be pretty close.
Anyhow. Single click on the picture then right click and select "Send To" from the drop down menu that shows up. Next, there should be another drop down selection called "Mail Recipient" or something like that. Click on that selection.
Next there should be a popup window titled something along the lines of "Send Pictures Via Email or Send Mail and one of the selections on that popup is to make pictures smaller. Go ahead an click on that.
Next you'll see an compose email form with the reduced picture in the attachments block, put your cursor arrow over that attachment and it will give the location of the reduced image file. Each OS and browser is different so I can't tell you what it will be but find that file because that is the one that is the reduced size and want to attach.
Jeesh, I've just written the Great American novel trying to describe something that is not hard after you have done it once or twice, sorry if I have confused things more.
Thanks Ed.
They are shrunk and now exist in "my documents". How in heaven do I get them to tractorbynet to post? This is getting frustrating. Part of my brain is starting to liquify. I am wondering why myself and some others do not have the same post window as you guys do where you just click the paper clip. Hmm,
They are shrunk and now exist in "my documents". How in heaven do I get them to tractorbynet to post? This is getting frustrating. Part of my brain is starting to liquify. I am wondering why myself and some others do not have the same post window as you guys do where you just click the paper clip. Hmm,
EdC
Gold Member
Lou
If you could make sense out of that description I wrote you are are rocket scientist. After I wrote it and read it back it almost got deleted 'cause it hardly makes any sense. I'm just not good enough with words to make it clearer.
On your reply window down towards the bottom of the screen do you have anything that says "Manage Attachments" ? If you do click on that and browse to where your small pictures are and then just click on the picture(s) you want to attach.
Meantime I am going to try and figure out if there is a way to make my reply screen look blank like it sounds yours is and then try and back out of it.
If you could make sense out of that description I wrote you are are rocket scientist. After I wrote it and read it back it almost got deleted 'cause it hardly makes any sense. I'm just not good enough with words to make it clearer.
On your reply window down towards the bottom of the screen do you have anything that says "Manage Attachments" ? If you do click on that and browse to where your small pictures are and then just click on the picture(s) you want to attach.
Meantime I am going to try and figure out if there is a way to make my reply screen look blank like it sounds yours is and then try and back out of it.
Ok
I'm gonna try this. I know it may seem like I have picture diarrhea but its been a long time coming so all is breakig loose. Well they seem to have shown up. It would of been nice to explain what was what on each picture. Basicallly have been doing it this for the last 20 years. Would like to have had a bit bigger tractor but the quarters are pretty tight and the 4' wide 750 comes in handy. Shes weighted down pretty good and is approaching 3000# with fel and filled tires. There are uphill sections that before w/out chains I would just slip and slide. The first picture is a tree that had broken in half 20' feet up. The part I attached to was 20" wide. I cut that to 12' long so I would have enough remaining to come back and attach to without much encumbrance.The second picture is the remaining 30'. Never would of brought this out in 2 skids w/out chains on such slick surface. Thanks Ed and Northland for being so patient with a tech knucklehead.
Lou
I'm gonna try this. I know it may seem like I have picture diarrhea but its been a long time coming so all is breakig loose. Well they seem to have shown up. It would of been nice to explain what was what on each picture. Basicallly have been doing it this for the last 20 years. Would like to have had a bit bigger tractor but the quarters are pretty tight and the 4' wide 750 comes in handy. Shes weighted down pretty good and is approaching 3000# with fel and filled tires. There are uphill sections that before w/out chains I would just slip and slide. The first picture is a tree that had broken in half 20' feet up. The part I attached to was 20" wide. I cut that to 12' long so I would have enough remaining to come back and attach to without much encumbrance.The second picture is the remaining 30'. Never would of brought this out in 2 skids w/out chains on such slick surface. Thanks Ed and Northland for being so patient with a tech knucklehead.
Lou
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