EQUIPMENT: Small portable and hand-held equipment

Because most of the equipment will be in cold storage, serious attention needs to be paid to anything that may have water trapped in it. It is best to open things like the trash pump to drain and dry out – and leave them apart until needed in the spring. The high-pressure washer needs to be stored in heated storage because I am not sure how you could get all the water out that would freeze and break it. 

Like the larger stuff with engines, all fuel tanks need to be full and fuel treatment added then run a little bit to get the fuel treatment throughout the fuel system before putting them away for the winter.
Hedge trimmers, weed eaters, chainsaws, backpack blowers and leaf blowers have two cycle engines and no crank case oil to change. If they were in good working order in the fall, they should start right up in the spring. 

The high-pressure washer, trash pump, walk-behind blower and walk-behind rotary mowers all have four-cycle engines with oil that needs to be changed in the fall. 

A new spark plug for each portable engine in the spring will ensure that the machines will be at their best.

Most of the hand-held and portable equipment is made by foreign countries for the world market where ethanol is not added to their gasoline, meaning they are not made with ethanol safe materials. After several costly repairs, all gasoline at the Crown Golf Club is now Recreational Fuel containing no ethanol so there will be no confusion as to which fuel is for what machine. 

Garage bicycle hooks screwed into the underside of the beams of the cold storage mezzanine allow the small portable engine driven tools to be hung up at about eye level. This organizes them and gets them up off the floor so they are not under foot or run over when the larger machines are being moved around.

The gas cans are raised up off the floor on a half-wide palette pushed up against the wall. This keeps the bottom of the fuel cans dry and creates a designated parking place for them.