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Chains Grades/Uses

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Bob Farrell

02-07-2007 09:15:21

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Well I am finally down to one 12' chain. The theives and "friends" borrowing have the rest. What grades and lengths do you guys prefer?

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johns48jdb

02-10-2007 11:16:06

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

i started to leave the shop one day and it was real wet and i knew i was going to get the panther steiger tractor and that 33 foot rome disk stuck so i grabbed up a big chain. the foreman ask me where i was going with that and i told him. he told me to get a cable. if you have to drag that chain in the mud and those links get full of mud it weighs twice as much. mud want fill up a cable. so it depends what your going to use tow and where. granted chains are a lot easier to handle except in the mud.

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dan hill

02-08-2007 02:28:14

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

Write the borrowers name and the item on a calander.I have had much trouble with borrowing over the years.You forget where stuff went.I have a small wire box trap, rat size.Got borrowed so much I just tell them I dont have it any more,some one borrowed it.

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davpal

02-07-2007 14:54:11

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

I use a 5/16 chain for a lot of things because it is so handy. I have a polaris 6x6 and it spends a lot of time in there. I made it myself. It is about 8-10 feet long and has a grab hook on one end and a slip hook on the other. If we have to pull anything serious we have a lot of 3/8 and bigger stuff, but it has to be something heavy to drag them buggers out. Sometimes I even have to break out the big stretch rope with loops on both ends if we get stuck with something. I use two clevis's with that. I like the smallest zinc plated chains for really light stuff.

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jhill52

02-07-2007 14:27:46

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

Cliff that is a really neat idea. I took a piece of flat stock and bent in an S and hung it on the upright on my neighbors 2000 series loader to hang chains on.

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Lou

02-07-2007 11:41:02

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

I went to visit a friend last week. He has all these chains hung up neat and painted blaze orange. Only problem , Im pretty sure a couple of them are mine, think ill get them back and paint them red that way ill know there mine.

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RustyFarmall

02-07-2007 11:35:07

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

Depends what you are doing. If buying new, it doesn't make sense to me to get anything less than 3/8" grade 70, although I've got a couple of 5/16" unknown grade that I've never been able to break. Most farm stores will have what you need in 20' lengths, ready to go, and also on a roll in bulk. Cut to the length you need. If you are tying tractors down on a trailer, the 3/8" grade 70 is approved by the DOT.

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Bob Farrell

02-07-2007 13:57:42

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to RustyFarmall, 02-07-2007 11:35:07

Thanks !! Grade 70 X 3/8ths it is. Bob

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Cliff Neubauer

02-07-2007 10:08:14

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Bob Farrell, 02-07-2007 09:15:21

For really big job's I've got a 25' long 5/8" grade 80 chain but it's too heavy to use unless you really need a chain that big (it weights over 100lbs). For most jobs I like a 3/8" grade 70 chain, it's strong for it's weight and it's plated so it won't rust. On our loader tractor I built a box that we carry two 10' long 3/8" grade 70 chains as well as a 20' the same size as well as a couple of big clevis's. I would say that the 10' chains on that tractor get used about 10x as much as the 20' chain because they are so much easier to handle. We probably use at least one of the chains on our loader tractor on average 2-3 times per week and having a place to store them like this has been very handy.

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supergrumpy

02-07-2007 10:50:12

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 02-07-2007 10:08:14

those slots in the box sure look like a good idea

what is the white tape for??

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Cliff Neubauer

02-07-2007 16:01:22

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Re: Chains Grades/Uses in reply to supergrumpy, 02-07-2007 10:50:12

The white tape on the hooks is the bar code tag that were still on them when I bought them.

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