Extra chains a concern?

You've only got a couple of hundred pounds of weight there. Carry on.

 

Our run has us chaining a few times a day. The more you use them... The quicker they wear out.

 

No doubt WA asks how many chains you have. They will do that at an inspection roadside or at the scale. They expect the right answer too.

I don't think CA asks at the scale. Roadside I have been asked about having enough chains when CA DOT tells me to install chains; never at the scale.

Take that for what it is. I am not looking up the CA code. But I don't think it is a requirement to have chains in CA in the sense they just prevent you from preceding if you don't have them. Although I can be wrong on this.

I am not wrong about WA. You get a ticket if you don't have enough chains.

 

Oregon, too, will check chains --- even when they just call you into the scale house to check a permit. The fines are not small, either.

 

Yes.

Funny story. I come bee-bopping out of one of my favorite grouse hunting spots, and there's a bull-hauler parked on the side of the dirt road. It's slick and wet out, and the clay around here just turns to greasy slick goo. So I stop, and sure enough, he can't move. I offer to help him put the chains on, and he looks at me and tells me "they told me that chains will only make my rig taller". He was waiting for the frost to set in in a few hours so he could roll on.

If 7 chains don't cut it on a highway, you'll be parked along with everyone else. We have some pretty steep inclines on the farm that are iced over solid right now, and two three railers on the drives let us move anywhere, up or down, empty or loaded.