Where Do You Keep Stuff In The Winter

[CLARKE]

My two choppers and all the rest of my lawn care spend the
winter in a barn with three 18 wheelers dumps and in trade
i give the guy free roundup around all his barns about two 4 (gal)tanks and free weed &feed for his 2 apt's that i mow about 6 bags and maybe 2 ex mows if we get a lot of rain.The car gets our garage and the truck stays outside. :angel:

[65hoss]

I'm lucky. I keep it on the trailer. Put a tarp over if needed, but I get to use my mowers and blowers almost all year.

[Richard Martin]

My 2 stroke equiptment get winterized and hung on the wall of my shop. My mowers get a major maintenance but they are not winterized. I start them up about every two weeks and they are run around the block a few times and then put back in the shop.

[Jay ALC]

As 65Hoss said, I am lucky as well. I simply clean all the mowers, equipment, and trailer then do any maintenance necessary. After maintenance I back the trailer into the back corner of my shop and there it sits ready to go till spring time comes around again. Then my snow equipment sits towards the front of the shop so it is easy to get at... I simply reverse the roles during summer. Snow equip. goes behind mowing and other equip.

[kutnkru]

Until recently I was fortunate enough to have the use of my parents barn. Now I have arranged to exchange mowing services with a local storage facility in exchange for the use of a 10x20 stall. I will have to do all my blade sharpening at home, but have plenty of room there for scraping decks at the end of the day, and space for working on equipment if need be.

I plan this winter on fabricating some equipment racks that I can hang from the rafters down the sides of the walls so that if I need the trailer without the equipment I wont have to keep putting handheld pieces on and off the trailer.

Have a staright shot for backing up and plenty of room for storeing my trailer inside at night here also. The company truck will have to go home but thats okay cause the drive is long enough by the side of the house to keep it off the street and hidden from view in the new neighborhood. ;)

Kris

[mdb landscaping]

i winterize all my equipment and put it inside a heated garage for the winter. the trailer has to stay outside though:(

[stslawncare]

hey guys u mentioned hanging ur equip in garage, is it ok to hang weedwackers up with head facing up?

[kutnkru]

Thats how I have stored mine for the past several years. ;)

[GreenQuest Lawn]

In a nice warm heated shop.

This happens to be an industrial supply warehouse.

My wife works there and the owner lets me use a corner.

[landscaper3]

Our mowing equipment stays in our heated retail facilty and our sanders, snowblowers and loaders stay under a car port along with all of our plow bades for the sun really hates those hydro fitting's on the plow rams!

[gene gls]

Hopfully, this year every thing will be under cover. I was offered a 1 1/2 car garage for storage in exchange for mowing an unused pasture that takes about 2 hours to mow,4 times a year. Couldn't pass it up. I might even have room in my own garage for my Sunday car this winter.

Gene

[HOMER]

Inside the trailer..............but it comes out all the time so it doesn't need "winterizing".

Last winter I had a shop, this winter I have a rolling shop.

[dmbhmg]

All of my equipment stays on the trailer (after maint.), and in my garage, not heated all the time, but well insulated.......almost never freezes in the winter. I also start and run all my equipment at least twice a month during the winter, and even drive them around once in a while. I think this helps to keep fresh fuel in the carburators at all times, no ugly green build-up.....

Heads up on the trimmers should be fine I think...

[Double D]

Question, while we are on the subject....Does it hurt the equipment to sit in freezing temps if it is dry? I am thinking about working out a deal for a bay in a storage facility, but there is no electricity.

[kutnkru]

If your equipment were to be stored smewhere where there are freezing/sub zero temps for long periods of time parts like your fuel lines will be susseptible to cracking and damage.

I would not advise this at all.

[landscaper3]

If you do store outside and live in cold and snowy areas like ours and arent lucky enough for indoor storage be sure to use STABLIZER additives works great!

[cantoo]

I use my Walker for snow removal and have never had a problem with cracking fuel lines or anything else. They sometimes sit in snow banks between jobs.

[CLARKE]

I FORGOT TO SAY THAT I PUT DOWN SOME MOTH BALL TO KEEP THE MICE FROM CHEWING ANY WIRES ON MY MOWERS, DOESEN
SMELL VERY GOOD BUT IT DOES THE JOB:blob1: :blob3: :blob4:

[David Haggerty]

Did you know...

If livestock has ever been kept in a barn, your equipment would get less rusty sitting out in the weather.

I have a neighbor who stored his motorcycle in his parents barn one winter. When he got it out in the spring it was almost solid with rust! He said ainmals hadn't been kept in that barn in 20 years! That manure is corrosive, and the effects last way longer than you'd suspect.

Dave

[cantoo]

David, I store all my stuff in an old barn. the rust probally had more to do with the sweating of the bike than the manure. Metal attracts air borne moisture in the barn, out in the open field it would dry better. The temperature in the barn changes back and forth because of the outside temperature so much it causes sweating. I put old blankets on my bikes and mowers to soak up some of the

[MOW ED]

The big mowers get a spot in the garage next to the house (heated wall) the trailer goes in the yard with a big tarp on it. All the other small stuff is in the garage too with a mini-van and my Chev Pickup.
Not much room for lots of other stuff but I have a mile of shelfs that I put on the walls that really help.

[stslawncare]

good point about the mice, got my tractor back this week and they said they found a huge nest in the engine, cost quite a bit of money too, result of being in a 3 sided shed.

[cos]

I store my equipment in a 10 X 20 storage unit. 24 hr access. I have a light and the space of course is limited. I will probably be able to work out a deal with my dad to buy or use his 24 ft. enclosed trailer.

[David Haggerty]

cantoo

Though I probably live closer to you than the majority of the members on this site, the winter climate here is much warmer. Here unheated outbuildings pass thru the dew point twice per day most all winter long. Lots of condensation. Add just a little amonia from animal urine and you've got rust. In your location, it more likely just goes cold and stays there, freezing the available moisture. Whatever the reason I' glad it works for you.

I wondered how relavant this post might be when I made it. I guess when you factor in the climatic differences it's about zero. So I apologize to everyone reading this that thought it might be something worthwhile.

Dave

PS: I just got back from a trip to Vancouver. So now I've been to Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Windsor, Ontario and Vancouver, BC. Beautiful country, nice people. Can't wait to see the rest.