Davis, you gave me a chuckle. When I was about 8 my new job for several years was running the grain cart and augering into the bins. Our auger had an OLD Briggs engine on it. It looked huge but I think it was just one if the big old 8 horse units. Wind the rope, pull, and pray.
The problem was the engine was up about five foot off the ground. Might as well have been a mile for me. I would stand on a bucket and turn on the gas and wind the rope then jump off that bucket pulling the rope with me. At least twice a day that rope knot would clobber the top of my head. I would get on the tractor and start augering watching that thing like a hawk. If it ever died and I didn't catch it I was dead meat! When it was done I shut off the gas and went back to the field. I can't even tell you if that motor had a kill switch on it. I wouldn't have been able to reach it.
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