Outdoor Machinery Winterising Checklist
Do one pass through everything with an engine before the cold, so nothing needs a carburettor rebuild in spring.
OM-08 2 pages
Outdoor machines · OM-11
Machinery Winter Storage Record
A free printable machinery storage checklist and record — where each machine went for the winter, its fuel state, where the battery is, and how it came out.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Know in spring where every battery, drain plug and machine actually is, and whether it started, instead of finding out the hard way on the first fine day.
Who it is for
Anyone storing more than a couple of machines over winter — smallholders, grounds teams, hire yards and households with a full shed.
How to use it
- Fill the left half of each row as a machine goes into store — date, fuel state, where the battery went, where it stands.
- Use the bench jobs table for anything found on the way in that wants fixing over winter, with the part number once it is looked up.
- Fill the right half as each machine comes out: date, whether it started, and anything found.
- Keep the sheet with the keys or the chargers, not with the machines.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Where every machine went for the winter, what state it went in, and what state it came back out — one line per machine, in and out. The winterising checklist is the doing; this is the record.
Write-on lines: Store / building · Winter (year) · Keys held by · Chargers kept at
In and out — left half going in, right half coming out — fuel state: drained, treated or left full
Table, 8 rows: Machine · In (date) · Fuel state · Battery where · Stored where · Out (date) · Started? · Found on the way out
Winter bench jobs — what to order and fix while it is sitting there
Table, 4 rows: Machine · Job or part needed · Part no. · Ordered · Done
Questions
How is this different from the winterising checklist?
The winterising checklist is the pass you make before the frost — drain, treat, clean, tick. This is the register of what happened afterwards: where each machine and its battery went, and what it was like months later when it came out. Use both; they do different jobs.
Why a column for whether it started?
Because that one tick is the honest test of whether the winterising worked. A machine that needed the carburettor cleaning in spring tells you exactly which step to do differently next autumn.
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