Re: Re: snow chains??

Dec 07, 2006 2 Replies
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Will you be towing to need chains? A 4x4 on its own shouldn't need chains


>unless you need to bust through a couple of feet of the stuff.

Guess again, 4x4 is about worthless on ice and can result in control lost. A 2wd with any kind of chains on it will dance around a 4x4 without them on ice. Heck even a 2wd with studded tires will out do a


4x4 on ice. My wife uses them on her 2wd cherokee in winter and she see a lot of 4x4 SUV owner in ditch with 4x4 drive on ice because they like you thought 4x4 was "magic" on ice.

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SnoMan wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Let me tell you. As a Kalifornian that goes skiiing just a bit. Most residences think 4x4 is MAGIC. I see more people twice as stuck as thier 4x2 counterparts. People see me chaining up my 4x4 Taco and ask why? I tell em it is so I don't get stuck when I pull out someone in thier Expedition, Denali, Navigator, Cherokee...

They usually give me a Huh?

This is one time that I will actually accept money as I will beat up my snatch strap and winch cable during the ski season.

Been thinking about a synthetic rope for the winch now.

If'n I was a Bast!*@& I would be charging 40-60 to get you loose. As it is I ask for five dollars and by the end of the season I can usually buy a new stap and wire rope.

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Many moons ago in a galaxy, far, far, away, I was driving an LTD wagon(with chains) through Donner Pass and stopped in Truckee. I got off the interstate nice as you please, stopped at the sigh at the bottom of the off ramp and sat there and laughed when a 4X4 pick-up did a couple of 360s across the intersection. Then its driver got out and UNLOCKED THE FRONT HUBS, then he drove off.

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