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Read articles →This is a real-time, hands-on walkthrough of mounting tire chains on an LS XR4145C, including jacking the tractor up on stands, checking wheel bolt torque, and the fiddly process of hooking chain springs and using chain binders to get tension right. It's unpolished and includes plenty of trial-and-error struggle rather than a clean how-to, useful mainly for owners about to install the same chains themselves.
Posted by an owner (formerly Nic Ames, rebranding to Tractors and Stuff) who uses the tractor for home projects, not farming, and films casually while working on it.
Jack the tractor up on a floor jack and jack stands, lay the chain out, hook the springs around a center ring, then use chain binders to pull tension tight before hooking the final springs.
The claws should never hook toward the tire. They should hook away from the tire so the points do not dig into the sidewalls and cause a rupture.
Yes, with the tractor still on the ground, check torque on the wheel bolts with a wrench before lifting the tractor to install chains.
The chains cost about fifteen hundred dollars shipped but are heavy-duty and do not slip. The owner used them to pull a truck out of a ditch.
