Tend to just use the ubolt attachments. Easy to line up and pick up. If imma go the sling route, I'm just gonna use a 20 foot 1/2 in and go from in front of the forward drive all the way to the back. Both axles supported and only using 2 chains
99% of the time I just grab the u bolts, but I already had the risers on from a previous tow and I’m just trying to show different ways of doing things for every one. There is 100 different wants anyone would hook to something. Just trying to help and show some of them.
@@TowManRines got ya. Yesterday I ended up using the wheel lift attachments for a coach bus. Those shit will stay on my truck for the next month before I take em off. Unless I absolutely have to take em off
I just wanted the weight of the truck to sit on the chains on the frame rail in steal of that flimsy part on the back. It’s just the way I like doing it and the most comfortable way to me while dragging trucks like that, that’s all.
Those axle chains are tits! I know what I'm telling my boss to order Monday. Who makes them, b/a? So much better than running a chain across the frame and trying to fish it around under the axle with a kingpin puller.
@@TowManRines I'm in Canada hopefully we can get them here. I was thinking you would need four to sling it but two seemed to work just fine. I guess it can only go so far up against the spring stops. Thanks for the awsome video. I've never slung anything before, think I'm going to try it. Looks pretty quick. We have an NRC and a jerr-dan heavy, pretty sure the jerr-dan has similar hooks on the wheelbars in the tool box. It has the bus bars on most of the time but they are a pain in the ass to adjust as they are old and not too slidey anymore. I'd rather fork. The bus bars are good for motorhomes f550s and stuff like cube vans with 225/75r16s it'll go small enough for them.
I know what you mean. We don’t have a bus bar on any of our trucks here and we have 7 heavies running every day. I do a lot of sling tows down here because we have a bunch of scales all within 50 miles of each other. I’ve always only chained up one side of the suspension, long as you get that one side tight, it won’t let the other side drop down much at all
I see those long u bolts under the last axel..... Why not put those in your receiver, chain the second axel , chain the truck down from the frame ,through the back shocks and to your tow bar and roll? I know there more that ine way to skin a cat... I just have had better success with that way over slingin a rig... Great video though... I learned something.
They are grade 70 chains with the j having an 8” throat on it. If you google them it’s heavy duty axle chain. I haven’t been able to find any in stock any where for months
When I moved the truck to a spot to get hooked up, I already flipped the dump valve on the dash for the bags to drain before I even started hooking up. Normally I do that or just disconnect the lines on the air bags soon as I back up to the unit before I start hooking up.