RE: Use a glove to handstart large engines!!
After getting "bitten" a couple of times, ( quite painfully too, with copious amounts of blood... ), I've elected to stick with electric starters.
Even my 50CC'ers are started with a Hobbico High Torque starter using two 3800mAh battery packs in series.
Works just great and there is far less chance of more lack of feeling in other fingers...