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To chain up or not to chain up

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Hotflashjr

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With The Storm on the way here to MA I am unsure if I should put chains on my tractor tires or not. I have a JD MT without any rear weights and a tar driveway. Last year, on the dirt driveway the chains would have been a help but I am unsure if they will on the tar. Any opinions?
 
From the sounds of our weather, you better chain up, fuel up, put the cab on and hold onto your hat......
 
Half an hour wait to get fuel!!! And I was cut off after filling my truck and 2 five gallon cans because they think they will run out.
 
You will get a lot less traction on your "Tar" driveway than you did in the gravel. Be prepared to look at all the marks in your new driveway that the chains make.
Loren, the Acg.
 
We are renting this house so its not my tar driveway! Not that I want to wreck the driveway, but it is not really a big concern if I scratch it up some.
 
Isn't anyone prepared for anything anymore???????? If I heard a storm like that was coming, my life wouldn't change a bit untill it was over. Then dig out.
 
My chains have been on since November and won t come off till late in March. We haven t had any snow for two years, but who wants to chain up in a blizzard?
 
I have a 300 ft paved drive. I have one tractor that I chain up in the winter. I have the aggressive chross chains on it and I will not drive that on the pavement. They tear the gravel up bad enough as it is. But they do work good for pulling loaded wagons or the feed grinder around the barn. I will use them on the road pavement in front of my house or down the road a short ways but not on my drive. I have a four wheel drive loader tractor with a blower on the back for my drive. I would only use your chains as a last resort on your drive.
 
That might be a consern to your land lord though.
You could loose your deposit or have to pay him for damages. Good luck to you, what ever your choice.
Loren, the Acg.
 
Do like we did , IF you have a major storm moving in your wheel tractor will be helpless with no weight so put the chains on and just don't clean all the snow off on the first pass leave a couple inches for padding . Back in 77 and 78 two years in a row when got hammered and we used Dozers on paved roads we just left two to four inches of snow and cleaned that off with the truck plows . I had chains on my Super H with and extra 1900 lbs of weights and use to do my concrete drive with it and my drive is up hill off the street ya hardly noticed the chain marks on it. My snow blower with chains makes marks on my side walk more then the H did on the drive.
 
I'm with 504 I chain up in October and November and don't take them off until spring. Way easier to put chains on when its 50 and sunny than when its 0 and snowing.
 
In our last big storm I had regular cross chains from like a big pickup on the front of a 4X4 JD. I don't think it left any lasting markes on the blacktop. Sure did make a difference in how it went.:) Vic
 
I have one chain on as I have to travel on the road several miles each storm. I leave that one on the shoulder, still very bumpy.
 
That is very true. They know I plow with the tractor and I mentioned using chains and he didn't say yes or no. How much snow are they saying for you out of this storm up in NY?
 
If you do not put on chains your tractor will be worthless.
Remember your driveway if a driveway who cares if you scratch it. Scratches should be the least of your worries.
Brian
 
I would say that at this late, you are running out of time for any storms, and just about running out of winter. Next year.

Mark
 
At my house it"s an automatic thing, the day
the snow plow gets installed, is the same day
the tires chains do.....
 
If you have good bar tread tires that are still soft then it may do ok ?
A few years back I used my JDM and it really went through the snow good. I couldn't even get a compact JD755 4x4 out of the garage and it got stuck.
I'd hate to tear up someone elses driveway.But chains are by far the best way to get traction. We have to run them on our 4020 as it is helpless without them !
 
absolutely. chains were invented for a reason.

They say we're getting two feet of snow -

subtract the usual hype factor and call it a solid foot - that's still enough to justify chains.

Wind is supposed to be hurricane force too - again, subtract the hype factor, and we'll still have some good gusts building up deep drifts - (unless you're real lucky and it blows it all off your driveway!).
 
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