DC-3's have been hand-started on occasions with a rope and a row of PNG 'volunteers'
We had a gentleman who had heard about this method and decided to try it out on his BN-2 at Daru. He took the spinner off and wrapped the rope around the dome. When the volunteers had pulled on the rope the dome wound up on the ground in a pool of oil. Instead of having to send him an engineer and a starter motor he needed a prop as well!