huntsman22,

I marked the chain where I thought I wanted to cut it. I had planned to leave one (1) link on the inside and one (1) on the outside, and just tie wrap the extra one link. I do see your point of only having the extra link/links on the outside, so I will rethink this thing. In your experience is just one extra link in the outside enough to connect the chains together in adverse conditions I may encounter in the field?

I have not used chains on a vehicle in over 40 years but our road into our hunting lease is getting worse each year and it would not take too much snow or rain to keep someone from getting in or out of there.