Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Tire chain storeage???

[IXLR8]

The last several years when I removed the chains from my tractor I have just put them in the bags they came in and hit them with a spray of Fluid Film and set them in a corner. But I have always spent 30-45 minutes in the fall untangling them before I could put them on. This year I tried something different. After I removed the chains from the tractor, I stretched them out, cut a piece of 1-1/2" pvc pipe about 12" longer than the width of the chains and then rolled the chains around the pipe. I am hoping in the fall that I can just unroll them and they will be ready to install with no time spent untangling them. So far I think the pipe makes it easier to carry the chains and put them away. Anybody have a better idea/suggestion for storing chains?

 

[Pipestone Kid]

The way this winter is hanging on, I might just have to store them on the tires.

 

[V1Rotate]

How about driving a couple of large nails into the wall studs in your garage and hanging the chains?

 

[George2615]

I tried nails once but chains are too heavy for nails. I just took mine off a few days ago. I use two L brackets lagged into the garage wall about 8' high and hang the chains on them.

 

[k0ua]

I just put mine in a kitty litter bucket, as they went in they got sprayed with WD40. The bucket has a lid, I figure the vapors will help keep them from rusting. It is about all you care to lift at 70 lbs per bucket. As for tangling, well, I suspect it will take some time.

 

[corl]

When I take off the winter chains I re assemble them on the floor so that they won't tangle up during storage. I put them in a plastic crate and they are fine for next winter. When you put them in the crate you hold each side where they join together and just lower them into the crate When You pick them up they are already to go. Been doing it that way for 2 generations now ~65 years...

 

[JGL]

With the weather were having this year, still got 3 or 4 ft. of snow in the bush, even the maple sap don' t want to run, not warm enough during the days. Think I 'll leave the chains for a while yet. Still have to go and split 2-3 cords of wood for next year.

 

[94BULLITT]

I just put mine in a kitty litter bucket, as they went in they got sprayed with WD40. The bucket has a lid, I figure the vapors will help keep them from rusting. It is about all you care to lift at 70 lbs per bucket. As for tangling, well, I suspect it will take some time.

That is what I keep some tire chains in::drink: I don't have any chains for the the tractors.

 

[PILOON]

I carefully hang my chains in a 5 gal bucket and spray some oil over them.
Lifting them carefully from the bucket so far has proven to be successful as they do not tangle.
Sure is one heavy bucket to move around.

 

[newbury]

I gently dropped, one at a time, each tire chain into a 5 gallon pail with used motor oil in it, getting all but a little of the end wet. After it "soaks" for a day or so I then pull the chain out and hang it above the pail, so it drips into the pail. I do the same with the other heavy duty chains I use, and I've a few pails set up.
/edit - I have an open ceiling so I just hang them over the joist.

As long as a chain has hung thru a few 80 degree plus summer days they turn out only a little oily.

I greatly dislike rust.

 

[oldballs]

I put my truck and tractor chains back into the canvas bag /box that they were shipped in, after a few squirts of WD-40. They are stored on the floor in the basement with a couple 2 x 4 under the box. But I have a note to myself to get a dolly for hauling them back up/down the stairs next season. That box is getting too heavy for me anymore. Laying them out straight each year doesn't seem that big a deal to me however.

 

[square1]

How about driving a couple of large nails into the wall studs in your garage and hanging the chains?

When I had the 9n and chains this is what I did, storage is nice and flat to the wall with no floor space taken up. If you drive the nails in on about a 45 degree angle, weight is a non-issue.

 

[newbury]

When I had the 9n and chains this is what I did, storage is nice and flat to the wall with no floor space taken up. If you drive the nails in on about a 45 degree angle, weight is a non-issue.

Except picking them up to get them ON the nail
Unless you have some neat anti-grav device.

 

[square1]

Except picking them up to get them ON the nail

Well...yeah...there's that...

 

[CJONE]

Throw them on a pallet in the corner of the pole barn, never rusted but a little bit on the chain that contacts the ground and that will be gone in the first 10 min of next season. CJ

 

[Bradbilt]

A good couple framing nails will hold a couple HUNDRED lbs when driven in on a 45* angle. All you guys have TINKER toys, so the chains are not that heavy. I have 25 and 50' of 3/8 chain on nails, so you should have NO PROBLEMS doing the same

 

[oldballs]

The heck with the nail idea....just sayin'. My chains are longer than I am tall....75 lbs is too much to lift.... but I guess I could grunt them up if'n I'd stand on a ladder.:

 

[joeyd]

I carefully hang my chains in a 5 gal bucket and spray some oil over them.
Lifting them carefully from the bucket so far has proven to be successful as they do not tangle.
Sure is one heavy bucket to move around.

x2 with WD40

 

[IXLR8]

The heck with the nail idea....just sayin'. My chains are longer than I am tall....75 lbs is too much to lift.... but I guess I could grunt them up if'n I'd stand on a ladder.:

Have to agree with this. I can lift my front chains up on nails, but the rears are too long and too heavy for me to do that.

 

[Bradbilt]

Seriously? Too heavy? Do you need your tractors too pick them up? LOL