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When starting your snow blower...UPDATED March 19 for lawn mower

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December 30, 2017, 11:07 AM
Sigmund
When starting your snow blower...UPDATED March 19 for lawn mower
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.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Sigmund, March 19, 2018 01:05 PM
December 30, 2017, 11:09 AM
zoom6zoom
well, it got ya warmed up, didn't it!




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December 30, 2017, 11:17 AM
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December 30, 2017, 11:18 AM
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.


December 30, 2017, 11:33 AM
Sigmund
quote:
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.
December 30, 2017, 11:44 AM
ASKSmith
Like trying to start a street bike with the kickstand down?


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December 30, 2017, 11:46 AM
SpinZone
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.



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December 30, 2017, 11:52 AM
Sigfest
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
December 30, 2017, 11:53 AM
PHPaul
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. Frown




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December 30, 2017, 12:02 PM
bendable
and gas! gas is a good thing too, Big Grin





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December 30, 2017, 12:19 PM
newtoSig765
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.


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December 30, 2017, 12:35 PM
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! Mad

And more snow is on it's way.
December 30, 2017, 12:35 PM
old rugged cross
And if you flood it. Just walk away for a good while and try again later, wala!



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December 30, 2017, 12:40 PM
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.


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December 30, 2017, 01:07 PM
slosig
quote:
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. Wink
December 30, 2017, 01:11 PM
prairieviper
A John Deere tractor with a front end loader is my snowblower. Big Grin


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December 30, 2017, 01:22 PM
beltfed21
What, no video???? Big Grin


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December 30, 2017, 01:25 PM
smlsig
quote:
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! Mad

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!!


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December 30, 2017, 01:28 PM
KMitch200
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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December 30, 2017, 01:41 PM
PeteF
quote:
Originally posted by Sigmund:
quote:
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.