Thread: Drag Chain

Originally Posted by Disco123

Thanks for your responses. I'll check out Paramount Browns - I've heard it's a good place to browse for an hour or two.

Make sure you take your Missus with you or else you will come home wth all sorts of stuff you didn't expect to. She will make you put most of it back on the shelves.

they fit well in a small ammo box, and you can fit a pair of gloves in there or a couple of D shackels with it.
gets heavy, but is easy to pack and cart around

Originally Posted by defender90

i've got mine in a ammo box. they would have to be the best free storage boxes you can get. just need to know the right people

how many? shippings a bit of a pain but well they aint heavy empty, just bulky.

the little ones are easily attainable at disposal stores for about $10.
they are still reasonable water tight, dimensions are roughly 75mm wide by 150-200mm high by 300mm long. they will fit in the box under your defender seat.
of course if you aren't driving a defender, your driving a pretender. (hey i like that!)

All my chains are in a .50cal liner, One 8-10m, one 4m and two lighter 2.5m. The later are good for draging logs and stuff when you dont want to stuff about shorting the big sucker.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

preferabley keep it in something that you can hose out with the chain still in it... The tradie 5kg buckets of spak filler and plaster board adhesive ,after attacking with the 13mm drill, are great as not only will 10m of 8mm grade 70 (5t rate) anodized chain fit in them so will a pair of 4.5t shackles, a small roll of fencing wire and a pair of pliers. A note on the end connectors, go to a rigging supply place and get the ones with a positive lock on them so that if the chain goes slack mid recovery they cant come off.

If you get the standard hooks, drill a 3mm hole in the very tip where it wont effect strenght and then thread a bit of fencing wire through this to mouse the hook onto the chain. Having one come off and flick into the recoveries radiator is not a pleasant feeling.

Any pix with a better description, i'm blonde tonight

of what mate? the positive locking hooks or the 3mm hole trick?

in either case its no but I will arrange it if you pester me after the bushmasters course.

hmmm I gave all mine away I found them to be too heavy bulky and generally a pain in the proverbial. Oh and the only time I ever used them was with a 10 tonne cab over Bedford to pull another truck out of the mud. now all I use is snatchem straps or 30mtr of 19mm rope

I must be missing something??

Blythe