Greetings fellow members and guests. I am working on a firewood shed that will be built out of cedar logs. The vertical poles will stand on sonotube piers, which are already placed. They each have a threaded bolt exposed an inch or so. My plan is to bend some steel into U-shaped anchors, which will then be secured to the exposed bolts and then bolted or lagged through the sides of the poles.
Question: would it be a bad or good idea to seal the bottom ends of the poles? I may or may not create a shallow hole in the post bases, to accommodate the 3/4 inch of bolt and nut protruding through the anchor base. (One thought is that doing so would allow the pole to rest flush on the anchor base. The other thought is that keeping the pole slightly standing off the base-and on top of the bolt & nut-will allow for better moisture evaporation and drainage. (Can't recall the term used to describe how water naturally gets drawn in between two mating surfaces)).
Would end-sealing just the bottom of the poles hold too much moisture in them?
Thanks!
John
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