How to Pack Lawn Equipment for a Move

All My Sons Moving & Storage offers professional packing services to get the items you treasure most safely to your destination. Do you maintain a garden or a beautiful lawn? Your lawn equipment represents a significant investment and if you plan to continue doing your own lawn care, you’ll need to find a way to pack the lawn equipment safely.

Here are 5 important steps to getting the shovels, rakes, lawn mowers, garden hoes, leaf blowers, and shears safely to your destination.

Every mover figures out that the more stuff you have, the harder and more expensive your move will be. You should always aim to declutter before a move, and offload the items that will not serve you in your next home. 

Sort your lawn care items into four major categories.

• Keep: You will pack these items carefully and take them with you to your next home.

• Sell: Items in excellent condition that you don’t want to keep can be sold for a little extra moving cash on sites like OfferUp, Craigslist, or Facebook Marketplace. 

• Donate: Lawn care items in good condition that still have some years left of use in them can be donated to a charity that can make good use of them. Goodwill and The Salvation Army both accept lawn care items as donations. Habitat for Humanity accepts used tools to sell in their thrift ReStores. 

• Dispose: Broken or dysfunctional lawn care items might still be recyclable. You can take your lawn care items in poor condition to a scrap yard. When you have large items that you are not sure how to dispose of, you can call for same-day junk removal from Junk.com. The junk team will sort out recyclable material and responsibly dispose of what’s left.

Once you are down to your favorite lawn care tools, you can proceed to the next step.

Gasoline is typically included on the list of items that professional movers will not move. It is too much of a liability to transport. If you have lawn care items that use gasoline like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, or chainsaws then you will need to drain the excess fluid from these items before you pack them.

Lawn equipment can get dirty. Now is the perfect time to knock excess dirt and grass off your lawn tools and give the items a good wash.

Cleaning your lawn care equipment is an essential part of preparing your items for storage if your move is going to require a storage stay.

Once all the items are clean and dry, you can start packing.

Wrap blades of shears and any other sharp edges with packing materials like old household towels, bubble wrap, or furniture pads. Lawn care tools that are the same length can be bundled together with zip ties.

Long lawn tools like rakes, hoes, shovels, and weeders can be bundled together in a tall wardrobe box. Make sure to fill empty space in the wardrobe box with extra packing material to cut down on the tools shifting around during transit.

Large items like lawn mowers and leaf blowers will probably need to be transported individually with the furniture. Wrap these items in furniture pads.

Check the weight of your lawn care boxes before you seal them and make sure they are still reasonably easy to lift or put on a dolly. Use a black permanent marker to label your boxes with as much detail as possible. 

Put a destination room on the box’s label like “Garage” or “Shed” so that your movers know where to place the items when you reach your destination.

All the lawn equipment is packed, and your new home’s lawn thanks you for your diligence. Enjoy having the house with the best curb appeal in your next neighborhood.

Need help with the heavy lifting for your next local or long-distance move? You can call on the professional movers at All My Sons Moving & Storage to get the job done. Click the quote button below to get started on your move.