Chain storage

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  1. Commuter69

    Commuter69 Road Train Member

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    Ok, my truck does not have a rack for chains, nor a good place for one(body work makes any mounting location inaccessible).....

    That said, I have strung my chains flat across the catwalk between the 5th wheel and spare tire.
    I have them secured using ratchet straps, but I don't like it...
    Does anyone make some kind of a device, perhaps made of steel, weather and rust resistant rebar that actually fits through holes in the catwalk and goes over the cross chains somehow? Or should I find someone willing to fabricate something? I really do not want to have to keep them in my exterior storage spaces....
     
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  3. Chinatown

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    @TripleSix can probably solve that problem. He may want to see a couple of pictures of your setup.
     
  4. 6wheeler

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    I put mine in a 5 gallon bucket. In the cab or in the toolbox
     
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  6. REO6205

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    If you pull the same trailer all the time try hanging them across the landing gear supports.
     
  7. Commuter69

    Commuter69 Road Train Member

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    While I do tend to keep a trailer for several weeks at a time. I do not see this as practical when I either drop my trailer at our yard and trade it for another one(or just so that trailer is not tied up when I go home, sometimes it is easier to leave my truck at the yard and use Amtrak to go home), or trade trailers with another driver....
     
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  8. not4hire

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    If space is at a real premium, we sometimes use mud flap chain hangers. My preference would be to have them mounted in front of the drives, but sometimes that isn't possible, so at the back they go. If mounting to the rear, make sure you'll have enough clearance for any trailers you haul.

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  9. STexan

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    If your doghouse has room for plastic "milk crates", you can gather up the chains neatly and uniformly, then use a good size zip-tie to bundle up the same mass of cross links you just gathered up, then carefully place them in the crate.

    Then lift them out by gathering up the tied section [of the last one placed in the crate], lay neatly on the ground, cut the tie, then gather up the ends "on top" of the bundle then pull the chain back out flat.
     
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  10. Toomanybikes

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    The only way to keep snow chains from tangling and twisting is hanging them methodically.

    Oh, and storing things on the catwalk is frowned upon by the some weigh cops.
     
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