Finally took first ride- the damage done.... help please

[glen1971]

Is the slider block in good shape or did it get chewed up? Is there a track off center? If there is, your chain will track back that way..
I have 156 hours on my machine, and have previously replaced the 3rd drive chain on my avenger. This weekend, I'm replacing both idler, and both last drive chains.. When I cleaned and put back the second drive chain, it looked pretty loose.. When I do the second side, I'm going to compare it to a new one.. If it's too stretched, I'll be replacing both the 1st and 2nd on both sides..
The idler chains took the longest to do, as one side was less than cooperative.. While the drive chains are out, I'm doing new slider blocks too... All told, probably be about 12 hours worth of chain work, but then it will be good for a long time.. I bought Tsubaki chains in a 10' box for $150 each...

[Oilfieldtrash82]

You can either buy it prebroken into the chain lengths you need from some of the argo vendors online, or you can buy it by the foot. I bought some bulgarian agriculture chain for pretty cheap and broke it myself.

Price from argo for all new pre broken tsubaki chains (on my machine) ~ 650
Price for 50' of bulgarian ag chain - 250

The bulgarian chain may be done in 40 hours. I won't know until it happens. It seems like most people on this forum get anywhere from 100 to 200+ hours of use on the japanese chains like tsubaki depending on how they use their machine. Breaking chain is easily done.

Where did you find this Bulgarian AG chain at?