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Noel
Explorer
Nov 19, 2013

Automatic, drop-down tire chains...anybody using them ?

I see InstaChain and a few others. Flip a switch on your dash and compressed air drops down rotating chains in front of your drive wheels. I have a friend who has a logging truck and he has to put...
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ktmrfs
Explorer II
Nov 19, 2013
they seem to work great around here on school buses when we have snow or ice storms.

Not sure how well they would work in deep loose mud, might just sink in.

the school bus ones around here have a rubber tire that is rotated by the drive wheel to spin the chains around once they drop down. kinda like the old rubber tire drive for a bicycle light generator.

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