Help with finding decent chains that are reasonably priced?

Best time to buy is in the spring, along with snow shovels and snowblowers.If you go to the truckstop, holler out on the CB, I'm sure you could find a company driver might want to part with a couple. Watch how you handle them, they might be a little warm lol.

 

If you have the option square links are the way to go. I prefer triple rails but I'm in a lot of different situations

 

I've had good luck at the local Kenworth dealer, but we now get them at the local tire dealer (Jack's). They carry three quality grades. The cheap truck stop chains don't last when used regularly.

 

I bought a set of triples, Triggs for $540.
Quality ain’t cheap.

 

you get what you pay for. Tryggs are worth every penny

 

Forget the socks. You will just spin them off if it's frozen slush with spikes etc.

I keep a set on my tahoe, Austrian ice chains and those are probably used once every 15 years or so. The last ice we had was handled nicely because it was rough when finished a few years ago. You could roll barefoot on that.

 

The socks are o.k. loaded, as long as you are on snow/ice. But, if your chain-up area is a little ways away from the snowy road, they disintegrate themselves on the bare pavement in between.

 

Local Cook Bros mack dealer we paid 50 something a pair for 11x24.5 singles not 3 rail. I'm sure we could of gotten them for less if we looked harder

 

I suspect that most truck drivers dont last when they have to use chains regularly.

 

Some of them last quite awhile. We have guys in their sixties who chain regularly. They have it down to an art.
Some of them chain several times a day.
One thing they do that makes it easier is when they unchain and hang the chains back on the truck rack they do it a certain way and they do it the same way every time.
That way when they pull them off the rack they're ready to go over the tires...no fumbling and untangling.
They make it look a lot easier than it is...and that's the mark of a pro.
Now, all that being said, every winter I hear a lot of "That's it Terry, this is my last year doing this and next winter I'm just going to stay home". And every winter they're back out there again, doing what they do best.