Anybody have automatic snow chains?

Each wheel position has an air chamber similar to a small brake chamber, plus the arm that swings under. And they only throw the chains under 1 tire so you’d need them on both axles and all that weighs quite a bit more than a set of good 3 rail chains.

 

Who needs chains when by the time you are at the bottom starting up the hill and almost hitting the slick stuff you have so much iron stuck in your tires it looks like studs sticking out?

 

People told me these don’t work either. Worked just fine for me. Now that being said I don’t go to the Rockies often and don’t want to carry rusty old chains around all winter.

 

A guy that rents a building from me runs a fire truck service and repair business. Lots of fire trucks have the automatic chains, he says they cause a lot of problems and don't work very well.

 

Easy now, easy. Some of us like to take those loads.

 

That looks to be the high tech redneck solution to me. But I don't think all states except them. If they do, I'd try those. Carry seven freaking chains, cause in Washington you have to carry a spare of all things.

 

It sounds like we have one fellow who has significant experience with them and likes them. And then we have several drivers who have little or no experience, like me, who have seen, heard and tasted all kinds of 2nd hand information about them and come to all sorts of conclusions.
If the loads pay more for going through conditions cited, and the weight penalty and additional investment and maintenance cost are recovered then it is worth it
The factor that is being ignored is the additional risk running in those conditions.
For me it isn't.

 

I'm not sold on the auto chains at all. I like the tire socks though.