ladder or diamond chains

nigelp

I have Ladder type had them since the 80s and haven't used them since... but did the CREB. track with them had been in the rain, rears of a 720 ute would never have made it with out them, so I still have them you never know ...

Richard

You get better steering bite with diamond chains, but ladder chains give you better driving forward traction.

Andrew

np,

Learn how to drive with out them.

They are the biggest destroyer of a track I have seen.

YOU will leave ruts in the track that will make it impassable for other drivers and that track WILL be closed because of YOUR actions.

If you think that you will need them, then the track is too wet to drive on.

Please leave the chains at home and only use them when required to drive on the roads in the snow fields.

Wayne

Hi Nigel

Big fan of chains here , there is nothing that can increase tracion as much for the dollars, and I never drive anywhere without carrying a set.

The diamonds are better where there are slopes and generally better all round.

You don't need expensive ones , each year by snow season the lightweight chinese ones come into shops at under $150 a set and are a steal.

They have got me where my lockers and winch can't , including saving my life when we got into a bad bog and were if fear of missing out on the last episode of JAG. We got out and home just in time and I was forgiven and lived.

Robin Miller

Diamonds are best on side slopes. Ladders are fine on ordinary roads.

Thanx to all replies. As often, informed users give a good guiding consensus, and clearly Diamonds are better in snow and sloping mud. A comment re 'leave them at home'. I do take the point and agree that it is irresponsible use that leads to track closures, a huge frustration to us all. As I said though, it's back up: in 10 yeras in the Tropics I think I averaged a bogging once a year (i.e. i'm not looking for'driving adventures'), and used chains once. Would have been there a long time without them, though!
np