How to Maintain Farm Equipment

Properly maintaining and servicing your farm equipment is the best way to ensure that your investment pays itself off in the long run. Additionally, you’ll minimize downtime and increase productivity, efficiency and more. Here, we’re giving you some tips on how to best maintain your equipment–from the farm to the garage–to make sure it’s running when you need it. 

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General Maintenance Tips for Farm Equipment

Pre-Season Care

The start of the season is the perfect time to give your owner’s manual a quick review. Make sure you understand all the basic maintenance checks like engine, transmission, fuel, and electrical. Remember that thorough maintenance is the best way to ensure your equipment runs well and retains its value. 

Engine and Oil

At least once a season, you should be changing your engine oil and oil filter. Refer to your owner’s manual for specifics on how frequently to change your oil and filter throughout periods of frequent use. 

Don’t Neglect the Radiator

Cleaning a radiator screen is easy–don’t forget to do it! You can use compressed air to prevent a dirty or clogged screen, and your engine will thank you for it. 

Tires

Whether your equipment is brand new, used, or coming out of storage for the season, it’s important to double-check that your tire bolts are nice and snug. They can loosen up after hours of operation and should be routinely checked. Additionally, you should be regularly checking that your tires are properly inflated before using your machine. 

Facing the Winter

Before winter temperatures hit, you’ll need to add a winterizer to your fuel tank to avoid a fuel freeze. This will help make sure your equipment runs smoothly all winter long, even in below-freezing temperatures. 

Post-Season and Storage

• Before you put your equipment away for the off-season, it should be thoroughly cleaned to avoid rust and decay. 
• Lubricate all grease points. 
• Either utilize a battery maintainer to keep the battery alive through the off-season, or disconnect the battery cables. 
• Inspect your tires to ensure that the machine is still sitting properly on well-inflated tires. 
• When taking your machine out of storage: regrease it, check that the battery has a healthy charge, double-check that all oils and filters are looking good, and check that your radiator screen is nice and clean. 

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At Koenig Equipment, we’ve got over 100 years of experience in repairing and maintaining equipment to keep you up and running, worry-free. Choose from one of our service programs so you can avoid downtime all year long. If you don’t have the time to make it into the store, we’ll send our mobile maintenance team to your home, farm, or job site and do all the heavy lifting for you!