Yeah what was said about CCA and such. However, in your case at least, you can get by with a 'pop the clutch' start. However, those with bad batteries cannot. You need a charged battery to run the sickle. the charging system will not keep it running. Your newly drained battery still has/had enough excited electrons to get er dun. A bad battery does not. Ask Bill from Ottawa. Eh? As Pete and I are heard huffing (exertional not recreational) away in the Lafayette parking lot.
Jumping with a car bat'tree calls to mind that scene from the rocky horror picture show, "It's Alive" IT'S ALIVE!!!!" as St. Elmo's (as in St. Erasmus) fire dances round the pointy bits of metal. A stench of ozone wafts up to ones nostrils.
