Winter Maintenance Tips for Your Machines

It’s time to again remind folks that hey, if you have a snowblower better get it ready, all that kind of stuff. It’s time to do that maintenance, so let’s do it while it’s not unbearably cold outside.

If it’s not something you’re gonna do yourself, before the first snow when they’re gonna get inundated with all these people that waited. and now you’re four to six weeks out from getting it back, but you’re gonna need it next week.

On all of the small equipment I highly, highly, highly recommend either use like a true fuel which you can buy canned already or buy recreational fuel at the gas stations. They do sell rec fuel, a lot of them, not all of them. It’s a non ethanol gas with a fuel stabilizer in it, so I use that in all my mowers, weed eaters, blowers, four-wheelers, anything that where the gas could sit for an extended period of time. It’s safer to use that gas and you’re not gonna create problems.

Now it’s $1.50 more a gallon, but you’re not using 20 gallons, especially for blowers this time of year. A ton of people have leaf blowers; they’re using them to clean out the flowerbeds and keep them off the driveway. Those gas engines really prefer that recreation fuel.

The ethanol that’s in there is not great for those engines. Here you’re only buying a gallon at a time, mixing it with a little oil, and it’ll help those engines. I just had to retire one of my blowers, it was 13 years old. Never had to have any maintenance done on it, and I know in part it’s because I was using a good synthetic oil and a rec fuel in it.

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