Anybody Missing Some Chains??

I don't think those drivers are going back to Snoqualmie...........ever lol

 

I don't need no stink'n chains.

 

can somebody 'splain that to me?

buy a set, go over the pass and then throw them away??

those things ain't cheap

 

Probably company trucks. A few years ago we were hauling chips from Truckee to Sacramento. Three trips a day and sometimes you'd chain every trip.
One day it was snowing hard on top but once you got down past Blue Canyon it was good road. I pulled into Baxter to take my chains off and there in the snow, in perfect order and directly in place from where they were taken off was a set of brand new chains. Four three-railers, and four singles. Pewag chains...quality stuff. Whoever he was he was prepared. He just undid the clasps, turned the camlocs, and drove out from under them. I hollered at him on the radio and he said to keep the chains. He was never going to chain up another truck or drive in the snow ever again.
I took them home and we used them on our trucks.
I found out later that Cal-Trans usually scoops them up and saves them. At the end of snow season they sell them to a scrapper and have a big part with the proceeds.

 

I wouldn't know anything about that. But I heard another good place are RxR crossings.

 

Never got any chains at RR crossings. Got a few winch bars, 9/16 wrenches, strap winders, straps, flashlights, wrappers, and binders . It was a rough crossing just a few miles from the mill.

 

Is that little restaurant still open on the side road at Baxter? I used to stop there in the 80s and eat occasionally. Really good onion rings as I recall!

 

Chrome hub caps, dentures....some fellers just don't slow down when needed.