You've NEVER Seen This RARE Push Mower Kick Starter! 

Some Victa lawnmowers in Australia had the wind up and press the winder down to start. They worked well.

Montgomery Ward sold one also. It had a lock lever you slid about 2 inches to lock up the recoil assembly. Then you wind it up, fold down the crank lever, and slide the lock the other way and spin the recoil to start it. We used that mower for 17 years, until we started mowing the church yard. First mow I hit a hidden drain culvert in the ditch that was grown over and cracked the engine block. I about cried when we had to replace it. Best mower we ever had.

Thanks, same to you sir.

I have a buddy in NY that I ship reos too! I'm in Michigan. They were made in Lansing. Awesome little engines!

Never believe in instructions that say: you just need less than one tool 🥸😂 greetings from IKEA 🤩😂

You don't have a bad back

I seen a wind.up.and push start on a older mower.

An electric starter would be a better idea.

Definitely not a bad what if you have no arms to pull the rope huh 🤣

I agree. I have arthritis in one shoulder and a torn rotator cuff on the other. I could use one of them on my trimming mower when my rider won't fit under the fir trees.

All sorts of ideas come to market but because of no advertising only reach a small sales base and die some need time to catch on and die before they do back before low flush toilets came out a device that cut the amount of water per flush came out at a time when most homes were flat rate no water meter but as a water hauler it could save our customers a lot of water and therefore money I bought 2 and tried them in our toilets on one I could get it to flush on 3/4 of a gallon of water and the other one on 1 1/4 gallons so I went back to see about buying more to sell to our customers but they were gone another product I thought of buying was a gas powered drill and jigsaw a gas powered circular saw no generator needed a year later black and decker brought out their mod 4 cordless drill with the promise of more cordless tools to come and the race was on in less than a year it was obsolete makita brought out a 9 volt more power and run time then more tools circular saws jigsaw Sawzall so why buy a 4 hundred dollar smoky stinky noisy gas drill when for less than half that you could buy a complete set of clean and quiet cordless tools each set soon becoming obsolete with in a year as units with more power came out and then new battery technology came lithium batteries and the one that went from good to bad Dewalt brought out a lithium battery that fit their old 18 volt tools so buy new batteries or a new tool and upgrade all your tools to lithium unlike other brands where to upgrade ment buying all new cordless tool's but they quickly discontinued that for a new set and the new lithium batteries didn't fit the old tools I bought a mod 4 drill and when 1 of it's batteries failed converted it to run off a sealed lead acid battery ment it was corded but the power pack was on my belt and using 6 volts on a 4.5 volt drill gave it more power and a lot more run time then came makita 6 volt system and then 9 volt more power ment more tools and finally I could work anywhere with no 120 volt power needed game changer for the building industry

HI, Gary. My Sweetie found the cure for cord pulling. It's called BATTERY powered stuff! Blessings

@@lewiemcneely9143 Hey buddy, how ya been? How's she liking the Battery stuff so far?

@@garyalensr REALLY liking it and hope you're just as outstanding as you've ever been! The Stihl mower is SWEET! She does all her trimming and uses maybe half the battery and cuts it down to one inch. Fixing to get a 42 inch Craftsman battery mower from Lowes. I'm going to keep 2 gassers for spares but looks likes batteries are going to be king here. The way things are going, now's the time! The craftsman is hi-dollar but the batteries stay put and you plug the charger in like a car. Good for this geezer and the younger chick. No battery wallering! And YOU???

Yep it’s called electric start

@@NA-pg4lf And electric run and electric shut down and so on.

That's an awesome idea.

@@garyalensr Got to get sum " STONE WASHED JEANS " LOL.

@@NoWr2Run Id bet Taryal has a pair of two of stone washed jeans😂

@@garyalensr I bet you're right or he could use his " Back to the future mower " to get a pair😂

I think it was because the engines were based on motorbike engine designs. Some of the 1920-30's cylinder mowers also had crank handle start.

i remember those

I still have a lump in my forearm from one of those.

@@cjack121 They were great if the mower started on the first crank, but one of the ones I used was a problem starter. Lost track of the number of times I would have to crank it, but once it started it was a real blessing as the mower was self propelled and there were a of banks to go up, plus the people paid me really well and gave me a meal.

We had those on the farm. I should have saved a few.

@@johnhooton3286 Just one of many things we wish we had saved.

There's nothing quite like that American quality. A hole that needed to be reamed, brackets too short, a pad that falls off. You can't get that sort of thing anywhere else.

​@@1pcfred I disagree. Look at today's domestic vehicles lol

Step and start would be more effective if you step on the lever lightly to get the motor in the compression stroke and then stomp it!

I wrenched my back out once pull starting a mower. When I did it I was like really? I wasn't in the worst of shape at the time. I just pulled on it wrong. I don't know if stomping you can mess yourself up. Probably. But the day I pulled my back out I wished I'd been stomping then. Because I was hurting for like a week after that. Was just this twinge I had going on.

That was going to be my comment, as well.

and a return spring wouldnt hurt either.

i always like the mowers that had someone else pushing them......🤣