Any experience with small 2 stroke generators?

I'm forever doing work around my place that is well past the reach of extension cords. Battery powered tools are great but I'm constantly running back to my shop for fresh batteries. I have a large generator, for the house, but it's a two man job to load it into the truck and it's a gas sucker. All I really need is something to run a circular or chop saw and charge batteries. Does anyone own one of the cheap Chinese 800w 2 stroke generators? How has it held up? Does it start easily after being put away for a few months or does it take constant fiddling to keep it going?

Bought a Coleman Powermate 800W 2 stroke portable generator back around 2000. 110V outlets and 12V w/ jumper type cables. Think it was a closeout, don't remember.

Like to tell ya more about it but I never used it, still sitting boxed in the back storage room. Have a 5000W 4 cycle too that I haven't needed in too many years to remember.

Thanks for reminding me tho, might come in handy someday.

Circular saw and a chop saw have start up currents in the high 2500 to 3500 watt range. The little 900W generator will fall flat on its face when it sees a huge spike like that.

The little generator is good for running lights and charging battery's.

I bought two of them for $150 to my door, probably five years ago. One winter I had no power in my shop and that little 900W generator ran for hundreds of hours powering my 1200W of lights. Even now, after sitting for months it will fire after a half dozen pulls. It will run some small power tools, but the the high current draw at start up on something like a circular saw will trip the breaker.

The trick to starting a saw is to blip the trigger 5-6 times until the saw gets up to speed, then hold the trigger. I've got a 900 watt 2cy, it will start a saw if you are careful.

My only experience is with them destroying electronics. The power from them does bad things to computers and such.

I am about to prove how little I know about electricity, but... isn't this the kind of application where you want a capacitor? Start generator; charge capacitor of suitable size; start saw; drain capacitor with start-up demands; run saw off generator; repeat as required.