Dug out the chains for the backhoe today. I’m going to have to wait for my son to take a day off from hunting and hang them on the tires for me. I almost got one on last year but couldn’t quite get it high enough. I’m sure we could’ve chopped washers off my arse and I was 6” from the top. It ain’t even a very big tire. Anybody else notice how much stronger gravity is? Must be from global warming. Canada is paying a huge carbon tax so it should cool down soon and things won’t be as heavy. Anybody got any tricks? I could throw them in the bucket and drive a couple blocks away to a friend who has a forklift but I would be in trouble for going down the street on the way home. I plowed snow for 2 winters with it barefoot and got in a couple pickles and chained it last year. No more barefoot in the winter.
Can you jack a tire off the ground, in neutral, other tires chocked, and roll the chain up the back of the tire? You may need a way to secure it to the tire before starting if your lugs can't grab the cross links.
One way is to lay the chains out behind each tire. Attach a tow chain to the end of the tire chain and then the rest of the tow chain goes up over the tire and down onto the ground at the front of the tire. Kick it in under the front of the tire. Drive forward and it pulls the chain up over as you go.
