Lawn Mower Service Log
Keep a mower running past its fifth year, by tracking the three things that actually kill them: stale fuel, a blocked air filter and neglected oil.
OM-01 2 pages
Outdoor machines · OM-12
Ride-On Mower Service Log
A free printable ride on mower service sheet — engine, deck and belts tracked by hours, with oil, filter, blade and belt part numbers kept in one block.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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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
Service a ride-on by hours rather than by guesswork, and stop a deck belt or a spindle bearing being the thing that ends the season early.
Who it is for
Owners of a ride-on or lawn tractor, and anyone cutting large grounds or a paddock with one.
How to use it
- Fill the specification block from the handbook — oil, filters, plugs, belts and blade part numbers, and the interval your handbook gives.
- Read the hour meter every service and write it down; the hours are the record.
- Tick what was done, and use the other-work column for spindles, bearings and anything on the deck.
- Run the before-use checks, above all the seat switch and the blade cut-out.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Hour-based service record for a ride-on or lawn tractor — the engine, the deck and the belts as three separate things that wear at three different rates.
Write-on lines: Mower make & model · Serial number · Purchased · Warranty ends
Specifications — from the handbook — look these up once
Write-on lines: Engine oil type & qty · Oil filter part no. · Spark plug(s) & gap · Service interval (hrs) · Air filter (main / pre) · Fuel filter part no. · Battery type · Tyre pressures F / R · Blade part no. & count · Deck belt part no. · Drive belt part no. · Blade bolt torque · Transmission oil
Service record by hours
Table, 6 rows: Date · Hours · Oil & filter · Air filter · Plugs · Blades · Belts · Deck greased · Other work · By
Before each use
- Seat switch stops the engine or blades
- Blades stop when disengaged or in reverse
- Parking brake holds on a slope
- Tyre pressures matched side to side
- Deck clear of packed grass, discharge guard on
- Oil level, fuel level, no leaks underneath
Questions
Why is this separate from the Lawn Mower Service Log?
A ride-on has a deck with belts and spindles, a transmission, a battery and an hour meter that a walk-behind does not. The columns here follow those parts; the walk-behind sheet would leave half of them with nowhere to go.
What should the tyre pressures be?
Whatever the handbook or the tyre sidewall says for your machine — the sheet leaves a blank for it. Matching them side to side matters more for cut quality than the number itself.
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