Life goes on - Summer 2026

The second to last picture makes you a shadetree mechanic Marat. Pulled an engine like that several times in my youth. Kind of makes me nostalgic. I have tried to pull apart a few transmissions as well. They never got back together.

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You know it’s spring when . . . .

The first mow of the season.
The humble SimpleFire proves itself once again.
Thank you Gary Gilmore.

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Steve I see the soup can and the air adjustment valve but I don’t see a starting blower. How do you start it?

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Don,
A good question. I have a stand-alone blower with flare burner which I connect up to the mower to start it. I’m not as good as Gary Gilmore, who in one of his early videos referred to it as a “dance” when he would squirt gasoline in the air inlet and pull the rope until the engine started. This video shows how I do it:

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Steve, you make this look easy. Just as it realy is. Great job.

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