How’s my saw sound, not cutting great

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One possibility is the rakers on the chain aren’t set low enough. Check them with a depth gauge. If this is the case it should also cut poorly when bucking logs as well. Maybe post a pic of your chain side-on showing a few cutters and rakers for us to see.
 
Does the saw sound right to you guys though. Next go I’m going to use a normal chain and compare it to my ripping chain to see if there is much difference
 
Forget the sounds - without even measuring them I can see those rakers are WAAAAAY too high.
A raker gauge will only get you so far - learn how to do progressive raker depth.
Measure the gullet width and the raker depth should be at least 1/10th of that.
Some chainsaw millers users go 1/9 or even 1/8th of the gullet.

Try reading all of this link - not just what you see on the screen here.
https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/depth-gauge-on-ripping-chain.350989/#post-7493147
To make things easier for you, read the Milling 101 sticky at the top of this forum.
 
Three things caught my eye:

1) Depth gauges, BobL covered that.

2) Angles appear seriously out of whack. Hard to tell from the photo, but the two same-side cutters that are visible don't look close to being the same. Reset angles using a jig or grinder.

3) It could just be the photo, but this cutter looks seriously damaged? Inspect the cutters.
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I did get a few more boards of red oak
 

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