Power Equipment Care and Maintenance

  1. Mistakes and Neglected Maintenance That Can Ruin Your Lawn Equipment

    Mistakes and Neglected Maintenance That Can Ruin Your Lawn Equipment
    When you buy top-quality lawn equipment, you expect it to last a long time. Equipment from respected brands like STIHL, Scag, Echo, and Honda are designed for long life and quality performance. But even with the best quality equipment, you’ll still need to make sure you’re taking care of maintenance and avoiding mistakes if you want to extend the life...
  2. 5 Tips for Catching Up with Equipment Maintenance This Winter

    5 Tips for Catching Up with Equipment Maintenance This Winter
    Winter is typically a slow season for lawn work. A landscaping company might put up holiday lights for customers, arborists can come out for winter pruning or cleaning up storm damage, and homeowners might break out the blower for snow removal or use a chainsaw to cut some firewood. Overall, though, winter is a time when lawn equipment stays in...
  3. 10 Tips for Working with Lawn Equipment in Hot Weather

    10 Tips for Working with Lawn Equipment in Hot Weather
    During the heat of summer, working out in the yard is a challenging task. This is especially true during a particularly hot summer like the one we’re having in Texas. The grass and plants don’t stop growing, though, so someone has to leave the air conditioning to mow lawns and take care of landscapes. When you’re working outside during the...
  4. How To Get Your Lawn and Home Ready for a Texas Winter

    How To Get Your Lawn and Home Ready for a Texas Winter
    As we get closer to the end of the year, it’s time to start getting your home and lawn ready for winter. The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts yet another cold, windy winter for Texas with a possibility of storms, though hopefully not as bad as last year. With some careful planning and winterizing work in the fall, you can work...
  5. Take a Break From Your Lawn Care and Enjoy the Benefits of Spending Time in Nature

    Take a Break From Your Lawn Care and Enjoy the Benefits of Spending Time in Nature
    Saying the last couple of years have been difficult feels like an understatement. We’ve been dealing not just with the Covid-19 pandemic, but also with the stress, supply chain uncertainties, price increases, and other challenges that go along with it. In a time that’s been hectic and full of uncertainty, it’s easy to forget to take a moment for yourself...
  6. The Basics of Winterizing Your Tools

    The Basics of Winterizing Your Tools
    Yearly maintenance plays a key role in keeping your lawn tools in good shape. As you put hand tools and power equipment away for winter, you’ll want to clean them off and do some winterizing to get tools ready for storage. This is also a great time for catching up on any routine maintenance tasks that have accumulated over the...
  7. 5 Kinds of Lawn Care Equipment That Will Help You Get Ready for Spring

    5 Kinds of Lawn Care Equipment That Will Help You Get Ready for Spring
    When planning your spring lawn care, it is important to know what needs to be done and what the best equipment is for the task. Using pre-emergent herbicides, aerating the lawn, and applying fertilizer are all key tasks for preparing the lawn for the remainder of the growing season. Once those tasks are done, mowing and edging will help you...
  8. 5 Easy Steps To Replace The Cutting Line On A String Trimmer

    5 Easy Steps To Replace The Cutting Line On A String Trimmer
    String-line trimmers make cutting grass easy in places a mower can't go. Using them wears down the cutting lines, though, and so the trimmers hold spools of extra line inside the cutting heads. When your cutting line gets too short, the trimmer feeds out new string automatically or when you gently bump the trimmer head on the ground (depending on...
  9. How and Why To Winterize a Pressure Washer

    How and Why To Winterize a Pressure Washer
    Winterizing a pressure washer is one of the most important maintenance tasks you can do. As with other types of equipment, winterizing before storage helps protect the engine. With pressure washers, taking the time to winterize before storage is even more important because of the pump. If you don't take the time to get the engine and pump ready for...
  10. What Kind Of Safety Gear Should I Wear When Using Lawn Equipment?

    What Kind Of Safety Gear Should I Wear When Using Lawn Equipment?
    It's tempting to just pull out the lawn mower or trimmer and get to work wearing whatever you happen to have on. Working in the yard around your home doesn't seem all that dangerous. Sure, professional landscapers wear protective gear but that's just because they work with bigger equipment and they're out working all day. Right? Not so much. Yard...

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