Hemlock siding will be fine, especially with extended overhangs. Not sure what look you are going for, but I'd put it up rough sawn and green, butted tight. They will cup/crown and shrink some, but who cares...just gives it character. Steel prices are not going to come down any time soon.
Made it home safely with no events Thursday night. I'm highly impressed with this supplier and their people . The driving really ragged me out, the combination of a trailer, a little light and underpowered tow vehicle and the incredible amount of traffic that I'm "out of practice" in, and the 12+ hours of it.... My hat's off to the OTR east coast truckers .
I worked that little 4 cyl. in the Tacoma for sure. My f450 with a 5xx something rear ratio would have been as miserable as well. It's over with now and only bought $269 of gas. A 2-3 hour nap should have been taken on the way home but I doubt that I would have slept in the area (495 around Boston) where I felt myself crashing. The longer I'm in our woods with the sparse population of the area,the more I become allergic to a lot of people. Just not real comfortable in those environments at all.
On my way with the metal . Sposed to be 60 tomorrow, hopefully the 9 to 10AM waiting for the frost to come off will not be necessary tomorrow.
Would you shy away from cutting 1x12's vs a 10 or narrower? I've got some big hemlocks that I can't touch fingers hugging it. (Yes, I'm a tree hugger)
I would go 8 or 10 tops unless you want to get fancy and quarter saw it. That's about the max I see on old barns and probably for good reason.
1x12 is what I saw poplar and pine for barn siding I did cut 1x10 for a siding job for a customer large diameter logs with the pith centered in the log are usually pretty stable JB
Rained just enough to keep me off the roof until after lunchtime, so I pulled the dock out of the river. I'm halfway across one side and half across the other with only the bottom course. I caulk the overlap because of the low 3/12 pitch and it was just too wet for that. The next "row" gets a clear polycarbonate sheet to let some light in.
That's why I didn't buy full length roof panels, too difficult to transport and handle. I'm using 12'6 & 12'9" instead. It's a relief to be on the metal vs the open framing, I still try to center my foot on the framing below the metal but it's not nearly as worrying and you finally have a surface to lay a tool on -finally .
Hope you have better luck w/ your polycarbonate than me. I've used it for my back porch roof and I can't get it to last very long at all.
Mine got cloudy, then I guess you could say brittle. Couple holes from not really hateful hail. It was a brownish color new, now you can't really see through it but it does still leave light through.
