As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
It occurs to me that your education is lacking in million dollar knowledge, so as I taught you about splices and ropes, you need to learn about another necessity in log chains.
Again, you are going to find out that chains are heavy, they are dirty, they are too short. Yes you need about 30 feet to 50 feet of chain as for some reason your vehicle or something you want to move just does not do it at 10 feet intervals.
That is expensive, but that is the lesson in getting several chains.
A heavier chains is better than the light chain you think will suffice. It will break.
You now will learn the lumberjack trade in log chains. Your chain will come with two different hooks. He one hook the chain slides through. The other hook you can hook into your chain. That might not sound that important, but soon enough you will choke off a cow with the slip end because you are stupid or it will be caught tight under 5 tons of logs, and you won't be able to get it loose.
Poor you, in all that chain and no crow bar. Yes you need a 4 foot crow bar too.
The reason you want the slip hook, is that it does tighten up, meaning it will grip things like logs or hay bales or else you will lose your load and have to do that all over again.
The chain hook for the links is also important as it will hook your various chains together to extend your pulling distances. It also will allow you to get loads moving and for you to unhook them without the need of a crow bar.
I would recommend a winch or a come along. I would advice a clevis and a pin too. I would also if you are doing vehicles being unstuck to have a large tow rope. I would also have you aware that all of this can be deadly as you have tons of things not moving, allot of tension on things, and if something breaks, it snaps like a rubber band.
Here is a pointer too. If you have a heavy object, like a large round bale, you want to pull so you get the object slightly "spinning" a that loosens the ground friction, and the object will not be a dead weight pull which is much harder and breaks things. My old man taught me that as we had hay bales in what became a slough, and it made it a batter game with a tow rope for me, wading out in the cold water, putting the hooked end at the back corner so it started to spin when we began pulling it. Movement is what you want always in pulling things, when you have solid structures like chain or you tear the bumper off your vehicle or wreck it.
When the power goes out, you are going to have to learn the Hebrew things in Egypt in how to move heavy objects again. It is all about leverage. Ropes are wonderful for most small objects like dragging animals you shot, rope are good for stuck cars as they stretch, but if you are doing this with a hand winch, that rope will stretch to hell and back before anything moves. In those case you need a solid pull and that is what chains perform best at.
Forget those cables. They fray, they snap, they poke shit into your hands, they cut you. You are going to need specific tools or be standing around with a finger up your ass not being able to get done what needs doing.
That is your elementary course in chains. The million dollar knowledge again.
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