Thank you for joining us at Living a Sustainable Dream, I hope this post will assist you if you have a snow thrower. If you have no interest in ever owning one, let alone have a snowy enough climate to justify its purchase, that’s okay. If there is one thing everyone can take from this post, it would be to read your manuals and keep them stored in a singular place for your equipment such as a lawnmower or a weed wacker. If you do this, you will be able to perform the correct maintenance when necessary and possibly prevent equipment failure in the future.
Even though most of the snow is now gone, we have a few videos that we still need to post to complete our Snow Thrower Maintenance Playlist. This post explains a simple maintenance schedule to improve your snow thrower’s performance and extend its life. I was unaware of this until the auger shaft replacement I had to make early this year. While searching the manual for a how-to instruction on removing the auger shaft [non existent in the manual], I discovered some strongly suggestive maintenance I had ignored these past 4 years.
The axle and gear shaft need to be lubricated every 25 hours of operation. When I purchased the snow thrower, I skimmed the manual and didn’t pay any particular attention to the necessary scheduled maintenance. I realize the importance and wish I had created a maintenance schedule of my own to adhere. I am already beginning to create such a schedule and can’t wait until we finish a shop in which to conduct this regular maintenance on our equipment.
Our next post will be this Saturday and I will be discussing the best 5 gallon fuel cans on the market for the price as well as storing small engine equipment for a long period of time without running it.
We haven’t chosen a tractor name, so far, the family is split on Wiley and Klyde.
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Recently I took one of my chainsaws to dealer to purchase a new chain. The mechanic quickly removed the chain to figure out its proper length. He commented to me that I’d be wise to clean out the sawdust and debris more regularly and also pointed out to me the bar tension adjuster wasn’t seated properly. You’re making a good point, Mark. To read and follow the maintenance schedule. Gee, I should change the oil on the genset! Thanks for the reminder. Happy Eastertide, by the way – Bruce.
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