Have one on my helmet new bike is fuel injected and fuel tank is in back I still reach down out of habit for the valve
A few years ago my buddy underwent surgery and chemo and it really put him down. I knew he would be getting low on wood so I went down, hooked up his SxS to the splitter and hauled it out to where I had a big pile of cut dead trees that I had cut in the fall. It’s one of my favorite type days, 25* and light snow. 8 hp engine on splitter so I figured it would be a bit stiff. 3rd pull it fired, ran a few seconds and quit. Pulled for another 10-15 minutes and nothing. I sweating like a pig and sucking wind. Hear the truck coming up the drive. Chris had seen me trying to start it. He looks like crap, he was 6’6” 315 lb, now he was 210 lb. He had throat cancer so really couldn’t talk, my hearing is shot from40 years in a factory. After a few minutes of no communication he struggles out of the truck, barely makes it to the splitter and reaches under the gas tank and turns valve to on. I wanted to crawl in a hole.
Glad you figured it out. Reminded me of the scene in the movie "Slingblade" when Carl looks at the lawn mower..."needs some gas in it"
I did that last year. Chaz is at work and went to split some ash. Wouldn't start. Finally when he got home went up there and showed him what I did and he reaches down and turns it on. Later in week, wouldn't start. Double check check, yup on choke open what the hell. Then looked closer and seen a snakes tail sticking out of the top. Chaz took the cover off when he got home and a gardener snake had wrap itself around the starter rope. He did get injured when I tried starting pretty bad so Chaz gave him a quick death.
I was going to mention that same thing. So many weekend warrior bikers puked chrome accessories all over their new rides but didn't know how to operate the friggin petcock.
