Winterizing 2-stroke tools

Its getting that time where i"ve been using the weed-wacker, leaf blower, chainsaw less and less. So my question is how to winterize them? Drain all the gas, run them dry? Fill alittle with stabil treated mix, run for awhile? What"s your prefered method?
 
Run them dry, add Sea Foam to a can of gas and run a couple minutes drain and run dry.
 
I just park them and ignore them. They start right up in the spring.

Am I supposed to have problems?
 

I don't do anything but shut the switch off. Never had any trouble with 2 stroke engines gumming up, but Stihl saw oil has stabilizer already in it. For years I added StaBil to my 2 stroke gas, then I read the label. . .
 
Thanks for the responses! Ya i've tried just leaving them, found they gum up over the winter. I've tried leaving them dry, only to find the gas lines/little bulb thing disintegrated come springtime. As for the chainsaw, i don't heat my house with wood. I only use it when a tree falls down and need to be cut up.
 
I mix a small can of gas(1 gallon)at 16 to 1 oil mix with about 4 ounces of Sea Foam in the mix. I fill the tank full and run it until I see the heavier oil smoke. Shut them off and don't touch them until spring. Then I dump the fuel out and refill with the correct lower oil ratio called for. I do this on my string trimmer, leaf blower, and boom saw. Since I started doing this 5-6 years ago I have not had any issues at all.

In my chainsaws and cut off saw I run Sea Foam in then year round. They may set for a day or a month between uses. I have not had problems since I started using the Sea Foam.

I also try to get gas without ethanol in it.
 
(quoted from post at 19:27:31 10/30/12) I mix a small can of gas(1 gallon)at 16 to 1 oil mix with about 4 ounces of Sea Foam in the mix. I fill the tank full and run it until I see the heavier oil smoke. Shut them off and don't touch them until spring. Then I dump the fuel out and refill with the correct lower oil ratio called for. I do this on my string trimmer, leaf blower, and boom saw. Since I started doing this 5-6 years ago I have not had any issues at all.

In my chainsaws and cut off saw I run Sea Foam in then year round. They may set for a day or a month between uses. I have not had problems since I started using the Sea Foam.

I also try to get gas without ethanol in it.

I do pretty much the same thing on the 4 strokes as JD does on the 2 strokes. Been doing it for years-it works.
 
I run em dry at a high speed to burn them clean. Same with chain saw in spring. Even the same with push mowers etc. I am one who maybe feb during a winter thaw will start things on a warm winter day with fresh fuel and let run awhile. Shortens their idle time.
 

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