Tractor chain install

Mike Groom · Nov 30, 2016

Just helped my 80 year old neighbor install chains,does anyone else pay attention to how the latches face forward or back when installed,I'm 68 and haven't noticed that they have ever unlatched when facing the other way.

Bob · Nov 30, 2016

I install them so they are less likely to catch obstacles or debris as the wheel rolls forward, so that would mean if the latch is at the bottom, the open or latching end faces forward.

Probably doesn't make a darned bit of difference, and, of course, when you back up the other end becomes the leading edge!

Mike M · Nov 30, 2016

I can't remember ? I do watch for which way the ends of the cross links are. The ends of the crimped links to the outside so as to not have any sharp edges to the inside.

oliverplow · Nov 30, 2016

That is how I do it also, but then my wife tells me that I can't do anything right?

72supr · Nov 30, 2016

I had a wife just like that too.Now she is somebody else's pain in the behind.

longmeadowfarm · Nov 30, 2016

as you are generally moving forward and backward..with a loader. I don't believe it makes much difference. However, I bolt my slack chain across the 'coupling/latch', to guard against the chain falling off the tire. However the best protection from a latch/coupling disengaging is to tighten the chain on the tire. At 75 it can take me an hour to properly install and tighten the chain to the tire... in 40 years of doing it this way I've lost a latch only once... but the slack chain bolting kept the?chain on the tire.

centash · Nov 30, 2016

I usually run a piece of black wire through the latch to prevent it from coming undone, and wire down the loose chain as well. Ben

markct · Nov 30, 2016

And when they are half worn you flip them over so it doesn't really matter with the cross link hooks!

moresmoke · Nov 30, 2016

Put one facing one way and one the other. Let us know in the spring!

If you want to save yourself some work, lay one chain out on the ground outside up behind the tire. Tie a rope to the end and run the rope over top of the tire, and tuck the end under. Drive the tractor forward, with a little repositioning the chain will pull itself around the tire with very little slack and no lifting.

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 30, 2016

Yours, too???

Ultradog MN · Nov 30, 2016

I do similar but a little different.
I jack a tire up and hook the chains onto the lugs on the tire. Then roll the chain up and over the tire.

rrc300 u · Nov 30, 2016

Just put em on and wire the latch.

dlbuck · Nov 30, 2016

On my Case skidloader I put the open end of the latches to the back. I don't think it makes any difference,I go backwards alot plus spinning to turn. I wire the latches and hook a couple of bungees to the outside of the chains to take out the slack. Never had any problems.

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