I recently had to remove one side of a diy 6' picket fence gait in order to make room for a concrete truck.
My contractor broke off a 4x4 post while trying to pull it out of the ground. Now I plan to simply make that side one foot wider.
For the current double gait I used 2x4s to form 2 sections , top and bottom, and added steel off-the-shelf corner braces.
My question is would this same design work as well or better than using 2x6s, a section, again, top and bottom but with one 2x6 diagonal brace each. Or make the gait of one section with a diagonal from bottom of post out to end of gait this making the gait slightly lighter.
With the diagonal wood brace would the metal braces help firm it up or would they just add more weight?