snow chains

Hit send too soon. Mine will make you legal all 50 states even Florida They come witha storage box for summer also and its heavy enought for 350 lb of chains.

 

Hey Scarecrow, I am a Pete man but my brother is driving one and he hates them. Says it hurts his legs to get from seat to sleeper. He's gettin a KW 900 this week. Poor guy.

 

It's been awhile since I went northwest but I believe that between Nov 1 and April 15 you are required by law to have them with you, if you get pulled for an inspection it carries a hefty fine for not having them along.

I used to carry 3 sets of singles with me, that was the bare minimum required for running in Or and Wa. I only chained up a few times tho and never used the 3rd set. One set of singles on the pull axle and one set on the trailer drag axle.

There was always a chain up area close to the chain law sign when they put it into effect. Most of the time there will a couple of fellows in a pickup with a cb offering to put them on for you usually for 10 bucks an axle. Well worth it if you never done it before just stand back and watch and you'll know the next time.

The easiest way is to carry a couple of 4X4 blocks with you and put them in front of the inside wheel then drive up on them. Arrange and and put your chains on then use bungies to tighten them up. Tip carry extra bungies if you find the chains getting loose you can put more bungies on them rather than redo the whole chain.

Without the blocks you have to drape the chains over the tire then roll onto the chain enough to connect the chain ends, get them as tight as possible then move the truck a few feet and check to see if they need tightened up some more. Using blocks is much more convenient.

Cables are perfectly legal but just about worthless imo they almost always break and flap and tear other things up. But they are much lighter and easier to store than chains. Only use I had for them was if I got stopped, if they put the chain law up I went to bed til they took it back down again.

Another tip for chains is carry a chain repair kit with you to fix broken cross links. Or at least a bolt cutter so if you break one you can cut it off to keep from doing damage to other things when it starts flapping.

Hope this helps.

 

Wow, well he's not really solving his problem any by getting a W9, is he?

Unfortunately I'm in a Sterling right now. I wish I was still in a Pete, but I had to go where the money was.



We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

These are the best chains google Pewag's. they are a true chain but the links are FLAT you can run 40 MPH with these Baby's. I work for USF Reddaway out west here So lot's of chaining with a Single Screw truck And they ARE Excellent Chains..

 

CO Requires Chains to be carried on I-70 from Sept 1 thru May 31st between yard sticks 163 to 259.
CA is the beast when it comes to chains.
IIRC, Ca requires chains on ALL drive tires (yes that means inners too) and two drag chains transversal (cross-wise) on the trailer.

 

Not quite. Go here.

 

Ah, you're right...all but two of the inners...good catch.....

 

You only need 6 of the 8 drives...a set of doubles on the rear drive axle and a set of singles on the front drive axle...along with the two drag chains on the trailer. 8 total tires chained up.

 

Yeah, Lostandfound corrected me on that...I glanced at the pdf and "knowing" CA, thought I needed 10 chains instead of 8.
Gotta get the bi-focals adjusted....