Simex's or chains?

Hi all

I've got an 80 series and currently run BFG Muds for everything.

I'm looking at buying a set of Simex Extreme Trekkers as a second set to use when it's wet and miserable and hard.

BUT

I'd probably only use them only 2 or 3 times per year.

They make my car unroadworthy and uninsured.

Every surface you can drive on but mud, I'd make my car worse.

I've been thinking about doing it the old fashion way and using all round mud tyres for everything and buying a set of chains and when there's one hill every few months that I'd need Simex's for, stick the chains on.

When I'm doing medium trips a fair way from home, I can stick the chains in the back and if something gets hard, stick the chains on. It's a bit hard to drive home and put the Simex's on and come back.

Sure I'd have the headache of sticking them on and taking them off, but I wouldn't have to spend 25 min before the trip and 25 min after the trip changing my tyres and wouldn't have to drive 10 km/h slower for the trip up and back. That will save me an hour.

Please I know that chains are no good for the tracks, but I believe that I can do less track damage using all round mud tyres and sticking chains on once every now and then than I will using Simex's all the time. I make my aim to drive without revs and momentum.

Tell me, what would be better in the mud. BFG KM2 mud tyres with a set of chains,

OR

A set of Simex ET2's.

By how much, a little or a lot?

Cheers