But the thumping eventually stops once the rest of the chain breaks and
is left in the middle of the road....
unless it chooses to wrap around the axle...

Yeah, I remember those days too.

Todd
'88 Westy

I was shown two ways to put chains on. One where you drive over them,
tighten them, drive a bit and tighten them again.
The other to simply jack up the wheel and install them.

George Goff wrote:

>In a message dated 12/5/03 6:24:55 PM, phlogiston@ISPWEST.COM writes:
>
><<  how likely is it that the chains will break >>
>
>As a lad I was taught how to install tire chains so that my old man wouldn't
>have to worry about accidentally soiling his dove gray fedora.  It's taken
>many years for me to purge most of those sweet memories of youth, yet, the one
>which remains is the one of that rhythmic lump-lump, lump-lump, . . . sound of a
>broken chain hitting the wheel housing.  If you use chains at any speed
>greater then about 5 MPH on anything except packed or deep snow , you'll hear the
>same sound.
>
>George
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