Thanks DL. I like the look of that. Something like that certainly could work.

I'm with TIMBEAL on this though, as I'm trying to keep this simple. Sizing up the post, or simply lowering the kneewall are fine options. I wonder with oak and hemlock posts (could all be calculated with hemlocks numbers) how high a kneewall I could get with 8x8s. I'll see if I can run those numbers looking thru these posts and my many books on hand.