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How To Pull With A Pipe And Chain
Eric Grutzmacher keeps a chain and short piece of pipe in his pickup. It’s come in handy often to move a fallen tree across the road or rip out invasive shrubs on his Sisters, Ore., property. 
How to use it is an old trick he shared in the Home & Shop Companion, a free weekly email newsletter he puts out from Small Farmer’s Journal, a quarterly periodical published and family-owned since 1976.
“I called it a chain lasso, but it’s probably more accurately described as a choker chain,” Grutzmacher says. “It acts like a slip knot.”
Instead of wrapping the chain around itself or making a couple of wraps, the hook slips into the pipe. With the hook safely secured, the other end of the chain can be hooked up to a pickup, tractor, etc.
“It’s not an original idea by any means,” he notes, but he recognized its usefulness and simplicity and shared it recently with readers.
He also tested its pulling power when he needed to demolish an old single-wide trailer. He linked a few chains end to end through a door and window, using the “chain lasso.” It worked well to tear the trailer wall in half, he says.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Eric Grutzmacher, Small Farmer’s Journal, (agrarian@smallfarmersjournal.com; www.smallfarmersjournal.com).


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2022 - Volume #46, Issue #1