Snow chains Info. What tires do you chain and when?

They get you off the side of the road faster before one of the many four wheelers who lack enough respect for your safety to change lanes comes by and ends your life.

 

It only takes me 10 minutes to throw a set of 3 railers and go. Not everyone runs around at 80k or less. I wouldn’t chain up only the outside 4 so I also wouldn’t take the chance on having socks on the outer 4. So your statement about only poor people have chains gave me a good chuckle.

 

Chains are for poor people.

 

How are the square link chains compared to the v-bar? I’ve heard they’re better on ice.

Not sure how the cross links I had came off. The links didn’t actually break. Looks like they weren’t crimped on middle chain tight enough. Happened while climbing a hill with a tight left turn covered with ice that had been rained on, frozen and snow over top of that. Tried climbing up slow and steady which didn’t work. Had to hammer it down in third gear which even had the chains slipping on the ice a bit.

 

“Never on the steers”

????

If you’re at risk of the steer tires slipping, you throw a chain on the RH steer tire (you can do the left, but it’s generally best not to for the sake of mitigating risk to the power steering system).

Maybe it’s just not a thing for those who’ve only driven on asphalt?

 

I'm just really curious what you consider your main drive axle? If you have a standard tandem axle with a power divider there's no normal drive and normal interlock axle. Power will always flow evenly to all wheel ends until one of them has less traction than the others. With the power divider in the normal unlocked position you could jack up any of the 4 wheel ends and the tire in the air will spin. Set it down jack up any other and it will spin. With the power divider locked jack up any 2 wheel ends and they will spin. Set em down jack up the other 2 and they will spin. There is no normal drive axle. I think some say more power flows to your right rear wheel but I don't believe that to be the rule. If all traction and tire speed is equal power flows evenly between all wheels.

 

I always chain the front drive axle, the driveline is bigger/heavier to the front diff. but I'm mostly chaining up off road with heavy equipment. two sets of triples when the hills get steep. I only run a steering chain on freezing rain or in the mud.

 

I never had to chain before. I'm just curious do you have to buy special chains for super single drive tires?

 

Yes, they make chains for the wide base tires. You will need enough to do both axles.

 

Did you use these on the regular highway. Just wondering how they were on bare pavement that your on sometimes. They look like the real deal though.