Never used chains myself but my wheeler is lifted and rolling on big mud tires, built motor, clutch work etc, even used to run a small wiff of nitrous on it when it was a pit racer... I'm at right around 20" of ground clearance, if I start to bog down I just up the wheel speed... it can get messy but I've yet to have to get off and shovel lol. If it was all factory, she'd probably be chained up...