Tire Chains

Sparktrician · Feb 6, 2014

I been meaning to post this.....but last December I ordered a set of 18.4X38 tire chains for our 6400 Deere from Tirechains.com. The arrived as they said they would, and on time for Christmas.

(Christmas present for Dad)

tirechains.com is a good company to do business with. No issues at all, other than the spring tensioners were missing one piece of hardware. A phone call and a replacement was in the mailbox two days later.

I bought the duo grip style, and they have been a tremendous help this year. Made a complete different tractor out of the old 6400 (2wd)

If you need tirechains, I highly recommend them. Best price I could find also.

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 6, 2014

I got a set from them for the 14.9/38s on my Farmall 300, also the duo grip style and they have been great. On one occasion I was trying to get out to the road to bring the tractor around to the other driveway where the car is and with the chains on it drove right through snow that came up to the frame rails.
Zach

Mike M · Feb 6, 2014

I put some on the 4020 years ago. Seemed like the bigger the tractor the more helpless it is. The chains were really needed on that 4020.
Our little 750 compact with 4x4 never needed them it seemed to crawl up a hill on solid ice !

farmerwithmutt · Feb 6, 2014

Gotta remember chains are nice but like 4 wheel drive when your stuck you got a lot more digging to do. my best set was on an m it was an x with twisted links they were nice because it sat on top of the tire and she would really go with them but it was a rough ride

Billy NY · Feb 6, 2014

Last season, I finally "broke down" ( where does that figure of speech come from anyway LOL!) and got a pair of double ring chains with the tensioners from tirechain.com. They state they are hardened meeting astm specifications, probably just the cross chains, hate they say made in china on the hardware, but they're certainly not junk, and I know they can equal in quality if told to do so. I have ice under the snow, and though my 850 ford is heavily ballasted, tires loaded and a thick cast iron weight on the 3pt arms resting on a 4 pt backhoe mount, with those on it will push right through the snow bank that the town leaves at the end of the lane. I had a pair on our '64 4000 when I was a kid, and they are still going on our 3600 ford, but I sure missed them, finally had enough cash to get them, very thankful, now if I have to go out in the fields in deep snow, I can and not get stuck.

David from Kansas · Feb 6, 2014

First time I remember using chains on a tractor was in the early 60's when we were using a 730 JD with a loader to load and feed silage from a trench silo. Lots of snow that winter that just wouldn't go away. We fed with a tandem axle grain-o-vator feed wagon, loaded to the hilt, of course. To get out of the silo to the lots there was a slight rise we had to go up and it got to the point that the 730 would spin out on the hard packed snow, even though tires were loaded and had wheel weights. Being poor farm boys, my brother and I decided to make some chains out of dual wheel truck chains that we had been previously using on an old 2-ton chevy truck. So, we just put two chains end-to-end and onto the tractor tires (the dual wheel chains were wide enough to cover the 18.4x34 tires and it worked great.

RLA · Feb 6, 2014

We"ve used tire chains for YEARS, cannot survive
on a farm that in a valley in NW Pa. With a
John Deere 60 as a spreader tractor & a 520
New Holland spreader loaded to the hilt everyday
Chains is the only way to spread manure.
When the Snow is REALLY deep, ( Like deeper than
frt tires on the 60) We"ll use the 2750 4wd.
But it has a real problem pulling the spreader
on the ice packed road. It"s a very scary time
when all 4wheels are going one direction on
road up the hill & the tractor & spreader is
going other..

wsmm · Feb 7, 2014

Ice nuder sow here in MidMichigan. My 1/2 ton Chevy 4x4 pickup with wood ballast in the bed, which normally plows good, had trouble moving snow due to traction. Had a pair of tires chains for 15" tires, extended the sides with links to fit my 16" tires, Also made up a cross link for the standard tire chains on the front as there was too large of a gap between one set of links. The erar tires have what I call ice chains, have spiked cross links. plows snow like crazy now, almost too much traction.

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