bannedagain
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hayray you are putting the right chain on the left wheel
bannedagain":2bbojeyl said:Over center buckle is almost like a over center chain binder but not. The buckle goes thru the chain link and then goes over center to secure the chain. Then the goofy washer slides over the buckle to lock it in place. Now the snow gets deep and hard and starts pushing on the over center buckle, the lock gets loose the snow slides back the lock and pressure on chain pulls over center buckle back over center and chain spins off. Very much the same as those goofy people who put a connecting link on the wrong way of a roller chain and what do you know connecting link comes out and chain either breaks or falls off. Then they blame it on cheap connecting links.Jeanne - Simme Valley":2bbojeyl said:OK quit being grumpy & explain so I can understand. How do you have a right & left chain? Never heard of this, maybe we've been lucky, never had a chain come off. what is the over center buckle?
There should be a left and a right, however as I explianed thru a pm to another board member, TSC and other places like that, who cut tractor chains to length out of a barrel, are without a clue when it comes to putting on the overcenter buckle so that you do have a left and right chain. They just slap them on any ol way, then look at you all stupid like, when you ask was this the left or right you just made. The larger chains have a over center buckle on both the inside and outside of the chain.ChrisB":1n2nyosw said:Learn something new every day. It's been a while since I used chains but I never considered that there was a right and left. :dunce:
Even if you only had one over center buckle, you would just have needed to take chain to other wheel. Buckle would still have been outside rim.hayray":34utwmxz said:After thinking about this and looking at my set up I do see that I have the buckles on both the innner and outer so I could turn them around and have the buckle facing the right direction.