Sawing pine

[D6c]

There's very little pine in my area so I don't have any experience sawing it but a friend took down what I think is a ponderosa pine from his yard and I sawed it yesterday.
I was surprised at how much power it took to saw it.....new blade, engine running good, but had to feed much slower than the hardwoods I'm used to to keep from pulling engine down.  I ran some water on the cut which did help.
Is that typical for pine?

[Ox]

Yep.

[jdtuttle]

I put a little dawn dish detergent in the water also.

[Joe Hillmann]

I find the softer the wood the more perfectly tuned the mill has to be.  I can cut pine 'till a blade is too dull to cut straight any more then put on a red oak or ash log and cut several more logs before it starts to wonder in hard wood.  Basswood is the hardest to get to cut straight of what I have sawn so far.