Hello. 1st post here.

[Mgeez]

Good morning. This is my 1st post here. Been lurking guite some time. I installed a Mechmaxx 32. Love it so far. I am "trying to cut the beams required for my sawmill enclosure shed.  A Huge learning curve ahead for me. I am on my 4th blade, nails, 2 rear bunker uprights hit, one that I just don't know why it dulled , maybe dirt. Oh well.......learning curve.
I am only focusing on trying to cut 6 x 6  white oak beams right now. I accept all my mistakes so far , but how in the world do you guys cut beams that don't bow?
1st tree was 14'. Straight, but kinda knarly lookin inside. Bowed both ways. So i chose a dead one that had excellent interior wood. Super straight. Cut 2 14' sections. Beams bowed mainly 1 way. Chose best straightest tree in the section i am cutting. 23' white oak again. Healthy as could be. Goal was to cut 3 3 x 8's. All bowed.
What am i doing wrong?

[customsawyer]

If you can post some pictures it will help us to help you. 

[Rhodemont]

I had some nice straight white oak logs bow on me last month.  We discussed it  on a thread "White Oak Stress".

[Mgeez]

Will do. Thx.

[Old Greenhorn]

Welcome to the forum! If you have done any extensive reading here, you know that Customsawyer and many others know an awful lot about your issue. As He said, add some pictures, that will help get you a solid answer. Speaking for myself, what I would want to see is the logs before you cut, and the end grain on the timber after milling. Almost all logs have stress and you have to mill the log to either contain that stress in a balanced way, or eliminate it from your milled product. Where you take the lumber from in the log has a lot to do with this. How large are your logs? That will tell us your options also.
With a little more info the smart guys will chime in with useful knowledge.

[Mgeez]

I am already frustrated. I have no clue how to navigate this forum to find out how to forward pics.

[beenthere]

Put your pics in your gallery, and then link to them in  your post.

Tutorial found in the Index page, and linked to here.
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=100194.0