[HayZee518]

I put in a stockade fence a while back - the sections came pre nailed in panels with three 2X3 stringers. I used 4X4X8 posts. I measured the distance between stringers and rabbetted out notches in the 4X4s with a circular saw and a chisel. Then made a "storypole" for digging the post holes so I'd be in the ballpark. I didn't used concrete for most of the posts just where the gate was going. where I was going around a corner, I notched out two adjacent sides of the 4X4 to create a ninety degree angle for the stringers. the stringers fit into these notches quite well and screwed the stringers to the posts. where the bottom of the fence encountered high ground I just used a sawzall to follow the contour of the ground, cutting about two inches above the ground contour. When it was all put in I used the circular saw on its side and lopped off the posts to a suitable height.