Check 1: clean the lawn mower
Everyone Lawn mower type should go sparkling clean in the winter break. How you clean a lawnmower depends on the drive. How to do it right:
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Clean the petrol mower
Use a damp cloth and cleaning agent to clean the mower housing from above. Before you deal with the heavily soiled underside, important safety precautions must be taken:
- Pull out the spark plug cable
- Turn off the fuel tap
- Tilt the lawn mower with spark plugs facing up
- Place the block on the knife block
- Clean the knife block from grass residues with a brush
Stubborn dirt on the case can be removed with a high pressure cleaner(€ 99.99 at Amazon *) remove.
Clean electric and cordless mowers
When cleaning electric and cordless mowers, different premises must be observed than with gasoline-powered mowers. Here are some things to look out for:
- Paralyze energy supply: Pull out the power cable, remove the battery
- Dry cleaning: Clean the housing of the electric mower with a dry cloth
- Brush knife: Remove grass residues from the knife block with a brush
For cleaning, you can either tip an electric mower on its side or turn it upside down.
Check 2: service the petrol engine
With the petrol lawn mower, cleaning goes seamlessly into the following maintenance program. How to properly prepare a gasoline engine for winter storage:
- Empty the tank: Set the mower to idle and let it run until it switches off by itself
- Change oil: Use the oil suction pump to replace the old oil with fresh lawnmower oil
- Replace spark plugs: Change spark plugs, clean recently installed spark plugs
- Check air filter: remove, knock out, blow through or rinse with water
On an electric lawn mower, maintenance is limited to greasing all moving parts. Please do not insert the battery any more.
Check 3: Put the lawnmower in the winter
Lawn mowers preferably overwinter in a dry, frost-free location. Primarily for mowers with a starter battery, the freezing point should not be fallen below in winter quarters.
If you properly overwinter a cordless mower, important criteria must be observed. Store the battery separately from the device at ideal temperatures between 5 ° and 12 ° Celsius. Nickel-cadmium batteries (CiCd) must be discharged before wintering. Nickel-metal hydride batteries (NIMH) are fully charged over the winter. Modern lithium-ion batteries can be stored for many months without any problems when they are half-charged.
Tips
When A lawnmower out of the Hibernation wake up depends on the weather and the condition of the lawn. The best time to cut the first lawn is when the temperature is consistently pleasant above 10 ° Celsius and a noticeably dry green area with 8 to 10 cm high grass stalks. mowing You follow the golden rule of one-thirds from the start.