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You can find some interesting examples of the evolution of the power saw .For example the use of huge electric saws that weighed 95 pounds powered by portable gasoline powered Caterpillar generators .Mall tool made some of those heavy things .Coincidently I have a Bridgeport milling machine...

My dad talks about dropping three feet diameter oaks in the late 30's on the farm .They would make the under cut on the fall side with a cross cut and cut the wedge loose with axes .Then make the back cut with a cross cut and run like the wind to get out of the way .I've got one of those same 6...

Saws that old you don't use for work .The battle is making them run to begin with .Fact I've got an old Lombard that came over on the Mayflower with a float carb sitting at a 45 degree angle .To make a horizonal cut you have to tilt it to the right .Slow as an old snail .

True they made multi fuel" engines meaning gasoline or light distillate like kerosene but those were low compression engines with special intake manifolds that heated the fuel so it could vaporize .John -Deere for example .They were spark engines not diesel with compression ratios of about 4.5...

I don't really have a favorite .However the ones I use the most are Stihl --200T ,024 and 038 magnum .