Milling Redwood and Pine Lap Siding on the Sawmill

We salvage a lot of pine, redwood, and cedar locally. Most of the smaller logs get turned into siding. Our siding is milled at 4/4 or 1 inch thickness and stickered and stacked to dry.

We mill the lap siding into 10 inch widths as well as 6 inch widths. They finish at 9 1/4 and 5 1/4 after we straight line rip both sides to get a consistent bottom edge on every piece. We then resaw on a diagonal to create our lap siding.