160 Roller Chain

in-too-deep · Apr 11, 2014

Didn't even know there was such a beast! Guy called yesterday looking for a connecting link. We only go up to 100H here so I gave him the number for Bearings and Drives in Fargo. Internet says 2" pitch. Whew!

rustytractors · Apr 11, 2014

I think that sized chain was used for the final drive on the LA Case

fixerupper · Apr 11, 2014

2" pitch roller chain has been around since at least 1916. The 1916 10-20 Mogul I have been working on has a 2" pitch drive chain. When I saw it I was surprised roller chain was used in 1916. It's a heavy beast when you're trying to install it alone. The chain on this tractor has a cotter pin in every link. Jim

in-too-deep · Apr 11, 2014

That was my first thought, too. Big ole chain on final drives. I should've asked him what it was going on. My Case C uses #80.

rrlund · Apr 11, 2014

I had a Meyer spreader that used 120 to run the big augers. There's a place in Ithica Michigan that keeps big stuff like that in stock.

NCWayne · Apr 11, 2014

I've seen quite a bit of the bigger sizes on motor graders. It's usually used on the rears where the axel drives a sprocket out to the housing that the two rear wheels (per side) are mounted, and the chain carries the rotation of the axel to each of the two wheels.

Get into the older cranes and you get into the engineered chain that makes the 2 inch pitch stuff look like a baby. I've seen some of that stuff where the pitch was 5 inches or better.

Tom OConnor · Apr 11, 2014

I think this boat hoist has some.

Tom OConnor · Apr 11, 2014

Better picture of drive wheels

Brokengun · Apr 11, 2014

The chain the guys was looking for sounds like the chain used on some of the old tractor mounted trenchers.

It also sounds like the chain used on decks for a drilling rig.

I know this because at one time I had an old trencher with the 2" chain pitch.

The guy I got it from said it was the same size of chain used to drive a rotarty on an oil rig

Matt H NY · Apr 11, 2014

My mixer wagon has 200 size roller chain to turn the reel. The chain has to weigh 300+by itself.

scott mcintosh · Apr 11, 2014

My old silo press bagger uses 160 chain on main drive.Next door neighbors kelly ryan uses 200 chain.

Don-Wi · Apr 11, 2014

The shop I work at just wired some keys in a double stand 160 and a triple stand 160 sprocket. Cost the customer $1700 total to have 2 keys put in each sprocket.

Cheaper than the broach required to do it I guess....

I used to work at a sprocket shop but I don't think we ever did ones that big. I do know we did a few 120 pitch sprockets, as well as some #60 sprockets that were 3 1/2'in diameter.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Bob · Apr 11, 2014

Did you know standard American roller chain is based on eighths of an inch?

EXAMPLE... # 40 chain = four eighths of and inch = 1/2" pitch.

#160 chain = 16 eighths of an inch = 2" pitch.

160 Roller Chain

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