Prepping Winter Machines & Recreation Fuel in the Fall
We’re talking about pulling the snow plows out and starting to do the prep on them. So it’s that time. I mean, do you want to work on it when it’s freezing cold? No. That’s right. It’s a good project to do if you don’t have anything else going on.
If you have a snow blower and you want to do some maintenance on it, it’s comfortable to do it this time of year. I mean, if you wait, it’s going to be your problem later. So be proactive, not reactive.
I had a new snow blower last year and I used it like, I don’t want to say two or three times. I don’t know that there’s anything I need to do to it. It’s electric, so not a lot of maintenance to do on that one. But anybody that has a gas, hopefully you listen to the show or read our blog, and you use the non-ethanol gas, the recreation fuel, because it has stabilizers in it. It doesn’t break down when it sits in the tank over a season. And so it’s much better for the equipment that can get used, like say a weed or chainsaw.
Well, we’re going to be done with that here probably pretty soon, and then that is going to sit till next spring. If you’re putting a fuel that has a stabilizer in it already, you’re using non-ethanol gas. Ethanol gas is not meant to be stored for long periods of time. It’s meant to be put in your car, burn it next week, put it in your car again. Though the recreation fuel is a little different and that’s why I use it on all my small engines. So like my mowers, my weed eaters, my blowers, my pressure washers.
Also something to think about, I did pick this up yesterday, there is a pressure washer pump saver. If you store your pressure washer outside where it’s going to experience freezing temperatures and you do not winterize the pump, the pump will freeze and break. So it’s just a real tiny can and you hook it up to where the hose would normally go and you push the button and pull the trigger. And it just basically puts all of the protective anti-freeze inside the pump and protects the pump from winter. It’s like eight bucks. And we’ll talk more about this as we get closer.
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