Anyone have experience with it?

It’s okay for slabs and cants, not the best way to produce dimensional lumber

Yes I do it a little now and then

And you can make dimensional lumber with it. But it's really not the best way.

Yes. It’s slow and a lot of waste with the large kerf but great in situations where you need portability or only don’t wanna invest in a proper mill just for a job or two. I’ve done a lot of it only because camp is fly in access.

I tried it on some telephone poles. Couldn't keep it straight because of the knots.
just

Your gonna need at minimum a husqvarna 372 or ms660 category saw and ripping chains. Anything smaller displacement with normal chains is gonna be pointless.

There’s a fairly significant gap between those 2. A 395 is more apples to apples with a 660