I prefer to use a chicken stick on my glow engines. For my gas engines I hand start with a leather welders glove on. I do have an electric starter that I will use if an engine gets cranky, but I prefer to hand start. Why?? I don't know. Pride in starting it by hand maybe. But I do know that I like having the chicken stick and glow driver in my back pocket and I can start my engines anywhere without having to go back to my electric starter.

Ken