Chains broke while driving.

I used to love going up I-70, having to chain before the tunnel, running in that tunnel doing 20-25 mph shaking like a blender, coming out the otherside and the cars and trucks are piled up, heading for a spot to check what is left of the chains, switching out the bad ones and pulling all the broken links out of the tires, then get another 10 miles and the road is only wet but nowhere to pull over to take them off,at least they started putting pull offs for that but in the old days we had to pull to the shoulder and take our chances with the traffic, and now we have them stoners who are not caring and think it is fun to buzz and splash us when we are struggling, or that snowplow driver with a full blade ready to bury anyone standing or crawling around. At least they fining the cars that do that anymore and if they get stuck they get a huge fine also.

 

This isn't really true. You can run a very long time on a set of chains, provided you only use them on ice/snow covered roads. And yeah, that's getting tougher to accomplish with these states throwing up the chain law for a forecast of flurries. (Why yes, California, we are looking at you!)

But this part of your post is dead on.

 

Has anyone tried tire socks?
If so did you like them

 

Not very durable. If they touch bare pavement, they're done. I'd only recommend as an emergency use item.

 

I was wondering about those as well; never seen them used as of yet.

 

We had a couple guys try them. A bit spendy, too; especially considering how easily they got trashed.

 

Speed will do it

 

Ok thanks guys. I figured as much.

 

Try to keep them in the snow as much as possible. Dry roads are a no no plus if its ice only then Chains are just skates