Make sure the key is in the "on" position. Otherwise all your efforts (priming and repeatedly hitting the start button) are worthless.

(sound of Sigmund slapping self)

There is a checklist right on the machine, I just assumed (yes, I know how to spell it) the key was on. There's one mistake I will not repeat.

We got about 5" yesterday evening, it was still snowing when I got home at 2200 so I just left it until the morning. It was about 5 (above) at 0730 when I cleared the drive and walks, looks like blue skies all day.

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well, it got ya warmed up, didn't it!

I did a similar thing with the lawnmower. I had just fixed a wheel issue and went to start the mower. I pulled that rope a dozen times. If HomeDepot would have been open I would have bought a new mower.

Soon realized I didnt have the start bar engaged. Silly me, fired right up.

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
I did a similar thing with the lawnmower. I had just fixed a wheel issue and went to start the mower. I pulled that rope a dozen times. If HomeDepot would have been open I would have bought a new mower.

Soon realized I didnt have the start bar engaged. Silly me, fired right up.

You get the same result if the spark plug is not connected. I posted that blunder several years ago.

Like trying to start a street bike with the kickstand down?

Hypothetically, not turning the on/off switch on your generator back to the on position means your arm is going to get tired.

So I've heard.

I’ve heard of a guy who got tendinitis in his R elbow from pulling the rope on a rototiller. When he got tired he checked the kill switch. Imagine that. He doesn’t like to admit it. Except on Sf. Lol

Curiously, spending two days troubleshooting, tweaking, adjusting and cussing your antique tractor before checking to make sure it has gas is not a particularly productive use of your time either.

and gas! gas is a good thing too,

My flight instructor told me to put the plane back in the hangar after fueling up one hot afternoon. We ass-umed it wouldn't start due to vapor lock, and both of us tried cranking that poor Continental until the battery was about wore out.

Luckily, before that happened, we realized we weren't going anywhere with the Master switch in the "Off" position.

If you don't mind I would just like to rant a bit about snow.

I keep telling myself, "I'll just buy a snow blower in the spring when they are on sale." And every year when spring comes I think, "Hopefully I'll get a job back in the SE between now and winter."

So here I am, I spent a couple hours shoveling my driveway and walkway yesterday. And what do I find when I got up this morning? All that snow drifted back into my FUCKING driveway!

And more snow is on it's way.

And if you flood it. Just walk away for a good while and try again later, wala!

You just reminded me, I'm due to get my annual phone call from my dad telling me he can't start his snow blower. And I will remind him about the fuel shut off like I do every year.

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Originally posted by cas:
You just reminded me, I'm due to get my annual phone call from my dad telling me he can't start his snow blower. And I will remind him about the fuel shut off like I do every year.

Be a hero, call him first and remind him before he tries to start it. Nah, he'll probably tell you he knows.

A John Deere tractor with a front end loader is my snowblower.

What, no video????

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
If you don't mind I would just like to rant a bit about snow.

I keep telling myself, "I'll just buy a snow blower in the spring when they are on sale." And every year when spring comes I think, "Hopefully I'll get a job back in the SE between now and winter."

So here I am, I spent a couple hours shoveling my driveway and walkway yesterday. And what do I find when I got up this morning? All that snow drifted back into my FUCKING driveway!

And more snow is on it's way.

That reminds me of a family story...
We moved to NH in 1960 when I was a young kid. My Dad traveled all over the world anywhere from 3 to 6 months of the year.
Of course he was gone when the big snowstorms came and it was up to my mother and me to handshovel the driveway and walkway. Of course he heard about it but just blew us off saying how hard could it be to shovel forty feet of driveway??

Well he was home for the next big snowstorm and my Mom gleefully watched him go outside and shovel that short driveway. When he finished he got in the Chevy Impala and drove straight down to the hardware store and bought a snowblower!
I still remember that thing sticking out the trunk of the Impala and my Mom smiling all day!!

Reminds me of the joke about the kid selling the lawnmower.
Preacher comes by to check it out.
The kid tells him, "To start it, you have to cuss at it."
Preacher says, "I'm a minister. I don't even remember how to swear."

Kid says, "Keep pulling on that starter rope...it'll come to ya."

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
I did a similar thing with the lawnmower. I had just fixed a wheel issue and went to start the mower. I pulled that rope a dozen times. If HomeDepot would have been open I would have bought a new mower.

Soon realized I didnt have the start bar engaged. Silly me, fired right up.

You get the same result if the spark plug is not connected. I posted that blunder several years ago.

Or if the fuel cutoff switch is in the wrong position.
Go ahead ask how I know this.