Thickness for siding lumber

[Peter Drouin]

Just one side

[Peter Drouin]

The jig is a good idea.  Can you post a pic of it?

  

 
If there's damage on the board I can fix it with a draw knife.
The edge cleans up ok it's the frozen sawdust that's a pith  :D :D

[WDH]

You are right.  It is not fancy  :D. 

[drobertson]

that will work all day long!  nice siding for sure,

[Brucer]

I sawed for another guy 11 years ago and my first job was to saw a whole whack of 5/8" x 8" WRC siding. The local service station installed it as lap siding. It still looks great. No checking or curling.

We stacked and stickered it straight off the mill, kept it outdoors for a week (in July), and then delivered it to the job site. They stained as many boards as they could and nailed them up the next day.

Since then I've sawed some 5/8" x 8" Douglas-Fir now and then, to be used for lap siding. Same approach -- air dry for a week in the summer and tell the customer it's ready. It always looks good.

No one who installs this stuff nails the bottom edge, and they always stain both sides of the boards before installing them.

There are some species (poplar, aspen) that I wouldn't use for this purpose.

[rimshot]

I cut some cedar logs into 1/2" X  4"pieces AND THEN usedhe rough cut boards as  as siding on my granddAughter's playhouse  I built.  Then I built a chicken coop out of the stuff.  I used a bostitch gun with 1 1/2"
galvanized staples and it worked fine.





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I used it to side the playhouse  I built my granddaughter