By Jon Hoch, Founder (Bolingbrook, IL)

The best way to ensure your snow blower starts in the winter is to store it properly in the spring.

If you follow these two simple steps, your snow blower will ready when you are next winter.

1. Run the fuel dry
It will be six months or more before you use your snow blower again.

Don’t even waste your time adding fuel stabilizer to your gasoline at the end of the season. Remove all of the fuel from the tank so the carburetor doesn’t gum up.

Take your snow blower outside and run the gas tank dry. Try to start it again just to...