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I must be doing something wrong. Pretty much none of my kit will start right off in really cold weather.

The old Farmall absolutely refuses when temps get near 0. I remember once chaining it to the truck and having my wife drag me around on it trying to get it to light. Didn’t, wouldn’t, next nice sunny day it started without hesitation.

The Yanmar will start but you have to crank it a bit and restart it twice or three times and put up with the complaining ‘till it warms up.

The 147 will light off if you are patient and crank it a while. After cranking for a minute or two It will start puffing white smoke and then catch, and then lots of black smoke and noisy coughing followed by an intense moment of quiet. Crank it again and it will start and run for about 30 seconds. Once more with feeling and you’re good.This is between 0 and 20F. Haven’t tried in below zero temps.

We have an old YTD snow thrower that we inherited from my FIL; my wife bought it from his neighbor when they moved and the FIL stopped using it because the fellow across the street has a fancy blower and does most of the block (simply because he can). So we have it. It lives in a heated garage. It seems to know if there’s work to be done - on any given day I can go down there, flip it on, hit the primer bulb, put it in choke and with just one or two yanks it’s going. If there’s half a foot of snow on the ground, though, you can yank on that thing ‘till you’re blue and are sure a heart-attack is just one pull away. It’s probably quicker to just get a shovel and git-er-done. I use it mostly on the walks ‘cause it’s small and maneuverable.