cleaning equipment

[bababooie]

what type of cleaning material do you use to clean your mowers throughout the year?what works the best.:blob3:

[Upstate Mike]

I use Simple Green on everything,I works good and its smells nice.I have a 2 gallon garden sprayer that I keep filled with it.:alien:

[CS Lawns]

Power Wash, spray Simple Green and power wash again.

[jaybird24]

Pull in to a car wash- $5 usually will do my turf tiger,sentar and w/b +trimmers edgers and blowers. Do this every friday and it stays good. Once a month spend $7 and be a little more thorough.$20 a month to keep it looking nice and much easier to work on seems well worth it to me.

[AndyL]

I used to be able to keep my equipment super clean...

At the end of every day (at least at the start of the season) when I brought the mowers so I could sharpen the blades, I'd put the pressure washer to good use. On top, and especially underneath! If you did it every day, the built up crud, was gone with no help... Otherwise, just a little sunlight soap, in water, and a scrub brush... The sunlight soap cuts grease really well, and is dirt cheap :)

Andy

[rodfather]

Simple Green and power washer. Be careful using anything more than 3000 p.s.i. (unless you don't mind have all of the your equipment's decals removed).

[LawnLad]

Powerwasher and the purple cleaner. Simple green works well too. Remember to lubricate well after all the powerwashing. Particularly throttle cables and those spots where water gets into that you wouldn't even think that it will. Too much washing can be a bad thing too!

[stslawncare]

got a question what u guys do to get under the mower, like ur push mowers?

[VLM]

For push mowers I just flip em over and hose them down. This is critical during rainy weather.

[stslawncare]

flip as in on side? dont u have to worry about gas coming out or getting into places it shouldnt or anything like that at all?

[landscaper3]

We clean our mowers twice a week with simple green or pink stuff and a pressure washer we have. All our trucks get the same attention! Thats another reason I love Walker mowers the tilt up deck and our ZMasters have the Zlift not as good as the walkers but does make it simple! And like rodfather siad decals do disapear real fast with pressure washers!

[Craig Turf Management]

Car wash guy yelled at me one time for washing my equipment there. He said that the grass etc. clogged the drain. I bought a power washer. It's been a great investment.
Bill Craig!

[ADLAWNCUTTERS]

i wash my mowers at the start of the season.thats about it,my time is too valuable for that stuff.

[Rooster]

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[ProMo]

greased lightning is the only thing ive found that dissolves grass stains instantly my exmark manual says dont wash it not good to get spindles etc wet