LT40-- can I cut 3/4 for the dog board?

[red oaks lumber]

i would never splice on vertical siding! where is the rot going to start? right where the seam is.just my opinion

[isawlogs]

 Don't put the joint tight.. leave a hair line between the two boards and all will be good.

[Brucer]

Oh!.. Mine also has that nice pinkish orange patina to it.   :D

That's not "pinkish orange", Marcel, it's "salmon"  :D :D.

[5quarter]

I'm with Red Oaks...put it up green, it will make its own gap in a few months and in a few years turn a nice shade of black. better to make a T + G butt joint using exterior grade adhesive if you have to scarf some boards. I realize its not your building, but you might want to suggest a few alternatives seeing as he is a friend of yours. BTW...I think you were right on the money figuring 25% overrun on 1200bf doyle on your logs, esp. since, as Marcel mentioned, you're cutting 3/4 and not 4/4. let us know how it shakes out.

[Okrafarmer]

I figured 25% over-run on the International, but it isn't working out because of course I am shooting for only one width. I'm only getting about a 0-10% over-run on my target width. I milled four logs today. I am getting the additional over-run in battens, but only a little bit in 8" boards. One little detail I forgot to factor in.  : The good news is, I do have some extra logs I hadn't counted before. I also have two smaller logs I can make extra battens from if I don't have enough from the edging. The mill is doing well. I milled about 300 bf of logs today but I didn't do the edging yet. Unfortunately my kerf is a little over 1/8 of an inch. It may be my band tires are too worn. I probably should replace them. I just put them in new last fall, so I hadn't hoped to need to replace them so soon.