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Added weight to Heavy 28s

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Cutting and splitting firewood is not the only way to warm up without a fire. Put the chains on my 424 today and it was the usual amount of fun. I didn't even cuss too much. Snow is in the forecast for the weekend around here.
Any idea how much a 28 inch wheel and tire weigh loaded with calcium?
It feels good to have that chore done for the season, wind is up and the temps are going down.

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442 pounds If it?s a 14.9.28 . Chains get heavy when you start putting em big tires I?ve got a set to fit 480:80:38 and they are kinda heavy to mess with
 
My two daughters, when they were teenagers, always thought that helping me put the snow chains on the tractor was the WORST farming job they had to help with! Frozen fingers, heavy chains etc! And that was only on a MF135!
 

I have put chains on a vehicle a number of times. Most of them were in a warm fire station, and a few times out in the snow on a small car. The worst was on a dump truck in the mud with a load.
 
Back in the 60's when I was a student bus driver we single wheel chains, had a wooden block cut so I could run the inside wheel up on the block to put the chains on the outside wheel.Drivers got to pick whether they wanted rough or straight treads on the rear I always had ran straights could put those chains on in about 10 minutes.
 
Daughter went to college in eastern Washington, we lived on the west side, so she had to cross the Cascade mountains to come home. She used to get free rides in winter because she agreed to put on (and remove) chains if it was necessary, without help. The other girls could stay in the car. She had a little "kit" with ground cloth, coveralls, pliers, baling wire, clips, etc.
 
Grandpa preferred to keep a load of ground corn in bags in the back of the '65 F-100, backed into the barn, so he could just ram forward and make tracks 600 feet to the road. Then he [u:07dd1aac38]might [/u:07dd1aac38]follow with the car on Sundays to get to church. IF we had a storm they might be snowed in for a week or two, always had enough provisions.

Until that Blizzard of 77-78. The drift between the house and barn was over five feet high and a hundred feet across. My Uncle came over with a friend's Jeep with a plow, but could make no headway (it had a JC Whitney add-on dual rear wheel kit, so little traction)

The neighbor drove over and plowed out the farm yard with his little JD MI. He had rebuilt the tractor and had chains and could out-plow our 1010, which was as useless as it's reputation would have you believe. The next winter we had a set of chains for it, upgraded the plow lift to hydraulic instead of a cable and could at least keep up. By 81 I had my license and drove a soft-top Toyota LandCruiser that could make tracks through any drift. I'll start digging for some pictures...
 
Agreed.

Chains are oversized.

Shortening will help but doing so is not so easy with cross linked chains.

Dean
 
Witch blizzard? Had one middle of Dec 77 and second on Jan 8, 78 with the big one 2 weeks later. The december one tor the exaust system off my car. Remember those well as on Jan 7 it was shirt sleve weather for my wedding and next day on honeymoon got cought in the blizzard, cut trip short, found out later was only 20 mile from destination, and made it back home to help with the cows. And the drifts were as high as the roof of the corn crib. Last one we could not get to barn for 2 days to take care of milk cows. Western Ohio, Auglaize County.
 
I have 13.6 x28s and if I remember correctly they hold 45 gallons the weight will depend on what you use for liquid. I used food grade glycol that got contaminated. It was free from work they were happy to not pay a disposal fee. I have ring chains and they are heavy to put on. The best way I found is Jack it up and roll the tire pulling that chain right around the tire.
 
Every year it goes the same way for me, one side goes on like butter, other side I wrestle with for a long time before I finally get it on !
 
Thanks SV, they sure seem to weigh more than that. The fluid alone must be over 300lbs. I do jack up one wheel at a time and roll the chains on, but it still is like a four hands project. I know after a bit of driving they will need some adjusting. Same stuff, different year.

Image from a previous winter

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That?s a good looking outfit . Those chains sure help a lot I?m the snow I just have the highway type chains and they make a huge difference
 
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