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#1 ·
Anybody use them?

Who sells GOOD QUALITY chains?
 
#7 ·
I don't know if there is a best brand of snow chains. As for style, I've always liked v-bar for ice or snow/ice, like you find on a north country road. In deep snow only I always preferred square links because they stand up high and bite in. I've heard that the diamond pattern works better if you have to traverse hills with a steep camber where the traditional ladder will side-slip, but I have never run those. I have also had tower guys tell me to get mud chains for the deep stuff. I presume that they were also going for the deep bite to get their F450 tool-body trucks up the mountain but it just could have been that dually chains are more limited in selection for them.
 
#8 ·
When we had them on in January, there was about 4-6 inches of fresh snow over ice. We had to climb switchbacks and go around all the people who think that cables give the same tractions as real chains (it was a fun obstacle course). Mine have the v-bar or icebreakers and I swear by them. I haven't had them in axle-deep unplowed snow yet but I hope they perform as well there as they do on ice.
 
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