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Does anybody know if there's a video somewhere that tells how to install chains, or a step-by-step instruction guide somewhere? I'm going to need them in a big way here in the next 3 or so days, and I've never put them on before, so any help is definitely appreciated!

Thanks,
Jason

check this site out, I think (not positive) that I seen something there before about the basics on chaining up....

http://www.tirechain.com/

Practice before you get on the road. You can figure it out better in a dry warm parking lot better than the side of a snow covered road at 20 degrees. Practice makes perfect.

Do you need more than those links, Teal or anyone? Just ask.

I find it helpful to get a pattern down for rehanging the chains on the carrier hooks after you use them too. It's really tempting when you get to the "unchain" area; to just pull them off and throw them on the hangers, thinking, "I'll straighten them out later when the weather is better.

It's much easier to take the time and rehang them the same way so when you pull them off next time you know exactly how they will lay out. I fold my 3 railers over so when I pull them off I can lay the whole thing over the outside tire and then just flop it over the inside.

I'm chaining up and down twice a night these days crossing Mt Hood going into Portland and back to Central Oregon. You do get faster with practice and having a pattern you use every time, like the pretrip makes it that much easier.

I just got home from repairing a few cross links I broke last night and I'll be "throwing the iron" around 9 tonight. Chains are not as difficult as most of us first think they will be.

Best of luck......drive safe!!!
don

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Originally Posted by BluHeeler

Chains are not as difficult as most of us first think they will be.

Yes they are. Chains are evil, and I will never do it again.

COLT-No, those links are good, thanks.

I don't think chaining is difficult, but I'm heading over the Rockies on I-70, and right now, they've got 17" so far, and it hasn't got "bad" yet...I was watching the cameras on my computer and you can't tell road from what's not road. Should be exciting :lol:

It would be nice if the CDL mills or the company training programs offered a little training in this area. I never once chained up, wouldn't know where to begin, never wanted to, and never needed to... but it would have been nice to know how to do it!!

Same here, I've never done it...slip and slide my way to a safe parking area and chill out there.