How to do fence corner posts with rails on the inside

[Kmacht]

Maybe I’m missing something but I haven’t been able to find a picture of how others are doing their fence corners. I am getting ready to put up a 3 rail wood fence for the horses. Everywhere I have read says to put the rail boards on the inside. The works until you get to a corner. Now every outside corner is suddenly an inside corner. How do you attach the rails there? It seems like either you have to set each rail line at a different height to offset the rails or you have to have the corner posts so one rail is on the inside and one rail is on the outside. Am I missing something?

Keith

[clanter]

we added a treated 2by4 to the post (I guess you call it a cripple nailer?)… scroll down about 1/4 the way on the attached it has a diagram

https://mymcmlife.com/2011/03/31/mod…ep-4-progress/

[mmeqcenter]

We bought our place with the existing fencing and haven’t replaced but,

Some of the fields are done as clanter describes, with a 2x4 on one set of boards to fix the second set of boards to.
Others are done with two posts side by side in the corner.
I prefer the look of the latter, myself.

[LookmaNohands]

If you are fencing pastures or paddocks it is best NOT to have corners! Instead, make a nice curve. This keeps horses from getting cornered and kick by other horses. I can also prevent horses from crashing into the fence when they run down the fence line and then can’t stop. Sometimes they crash into the fence, sometimes they try to jump. A curve just turns them and they tend not to run into the fence. IMHO.

[ShotenStar]

I’m with mmeqcenter - when I need a corner, I use double posts.

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