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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Rob wrote:

> Two thoughts.
> The wood treatment does not go all the way through, drilling a hole
> through at the ground level gives access to the untreated wood.

Good point.
> The rot usually occurs right at the ground/air line.

I only have one experience pertinent, a bell post, four by four CCA  
post in moist ground for about ten years. When I took it out I found  
it rotted severely in all underground areas, about two feet of its  
bottom length.

> Would the
> bolts/rebar/whatever make it harder to fix a bad post?

I don't think so. I expect a grandson or whomever would most likely  
use heavy angle braces bolted to the post and setting on and bolted  
into the concrete. Or a sister support system would be used, like two  
by sixes on each side of the post, lagged into the post and sitting on  
the concrete ribbon.