Post & Rail

This can be:

• sawn or

• round traditional/cundey or

• round machined.

Rails are usually 12 feet or 3.6m long (tip – mark out posts using rail as a spacer).

Rails can be 2, 3, or 4 high (tip: to work out the number of rails required multiply the length by the number of rails high and divide by 3.6).

Sawn:

• Posts are normally 1.8m (6’) high and have either a 125 (5”) or 150 mm (6”)  face with a weathered top.
• Rails are usually 3.6 x 87x 38 or 100 x 38 (i.e. 12’ x 3.5”or 4” x 1.5”).

Round:

• Posts are usually, if machined, 1.8 (6”) x 100 (4”) round

• rails 100  (4”). 

If traditional posts are used often a 5’6” x 4-5” or 5-6” split post is used with normally a 12’ x 4-5” half round rail or sometimes the lighter 3-4” rail.