German innovation on icy roads

[Sumboodie]

Not German. Invented in the US in the early 70s and stolen by the Swedens.

 

[John105]

Really....???? First you have seen? Those have been on American School buses for at least a decade.


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They are often stored underneath and clank all year round.

I used to have the flexible kind on my Volvo and the car shook pretty bad such that I dreaded using them (skied at Killington often so needed even with 4 Hakkapeliitta snows)

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I've seen them around for a long time but still don't understand how they actually do anything.

 

[Rmay635703]

I've seen them around for a long time but still don't understand how they actually do anything.

If you’ve ever tried to walk on an extensive section of glare ice like I do to the ice caves, even with otherwise good boots you will know that any little thing that goes between your foot and the ice adds a lot of traction, when one of my cleats was lost I grabbed a bunch of tiny sticks any little piece of grit between your boot and the ice is perfectly walkable

 

[4WD]

You call those chains, Mate …

 

[Kira]

^^$7.95 at John's Bargain Stores.

 

[4WD]

^^$7.95 at John's Bargain Stores.

Where you shop daily ?

 

[OVERKILL]

Those are the norm on ambulances and the drive axle(s) of fire trucks in rural New England.

Yup, was going to say, we have those on fire trucks here.

 

[Kira]

It was an attempt at humor. Those are the biggest, widest and most specified chains I've ever seen.
Ha, I did once see a JBS in Central NJ. They disappeared when I was very young.

 

[JHZR2]

When a truck goes by with chain jingling sounds coming from it, usually a system like this is in use.