Even the expert chain installer in the video is breathing heavy! I remember about 1962 & I was helping my Dad put chains on...we put em on the same way this guy put them on in 2015! We also put them on the same way in
'63/'64/'65/'66 and I was out of there in '67...
Hey! You Engineers out there! Can't you people come up with something better and easier than this humping, struggling, heavy breathing "simple installer" has shown us?
Snow chains have been around for a hundred years & you Engineers have done not a thing to make
them easier to install. Instead you focus on making it easier to open soup cans, bottles, plastic hot dog wrappers, WAWA salad packets, orange juice containers, doors, elevators, airplanes, Amazon boxes, et al!
$39.99 per tire...that's the July price @ Pep Boys
I live on Blossom Hill...a very steep hill. I will be purchasing a set of chains in the Fall. And should
I die of a heart attack simply installing The Chains before a snow storm...all you Engineers will be sued for misfeasance.
During the winter of '58 thru '60 Michael Heebner rode his bike to St Ambrose through every snow storm with not chains or rope on his tires, but there was something there, pulling him up the C street Hill...he never told us what the material was. I think they used it on the Space Shuttle.
Michael Heebner was very smart. You engineers are smarter than Michael was in 1958
He was in 6th grade!! Give us an easier way to install tire chains...
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cardboard boxes under the rear tires.....dirt, sand......I remember going w/ Dad to Moskat's auto cemetery couple times and he searched junkers for a part or two and then in the coldest period of winter he told me to go in and get any cardboard I could find. He used it to crawl under the car on his back and remove & replace "something ?". Miraculously, after a full day of experimental repairing the damn thing (Plymouth 1942-44?) started....I asked Dad, "how did you learn to repair cars?" He said, "who said I know how, I just have no money to have the mechanics do it for me." God Bless Jack......never ask Why did he enjoy a Manhattan soooo much? Only he knew the challenges & adventures his life presented. Wouldn't it be great if he & Mary could return for a weekend of stories....son of a gun never shared many stories w/ us.
One comes to mind....he & Eddie Mcgeean putting up new siding on the front of our house & telling me repeatedly, "go get us a couple beers...". I did all afternoon til they finally got the load & fell asleep on the porch roof! They were laughing & laughing trying to figure it out and it was HOOOOOTTT! Guess the heat got to them.......both of them had a nice red burn at the end of the project.....
Great stores Jr. Only now, as an adult, do I have any appreciation of what was going on in Jack and Mary's life back then. It all makes sense now that when I would ask where he was going, he would just say "Out." If I asked to come along, the answer was "No". He need some space.
Chains... my baby's got me locked up in chains....and the ain't the kind, that you can see. Oh, oh these chains of love, got a hold on me!.. Yeah!
Mother once brought it to my attention he would disappear ("where you going, can I come, no, gonna shoe a horse.") if he had money and she knew he'd go get a beer or deuce.....she also said he had the ability to shut everything out and go take a long nap. She worried about money money money all the time...among other chronic pressures...
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