Attach the barrels to your frame. Drill pilot holes for the eye bolts, two on each side of where each barrel will sit, then screw the eye bolts in by hand. Place the barrels in the cradles, then string your polypropylene rope through the eye bolts to tie down the barrels and keep them firmly in place.
The easiest method is to tie a knot around the eye bolt closest to the frame, then loop the rope through each of the three remaining eye bolts and tie another knot around the final bolt. Flip your dock over. Flipping your dock upright can be a deceptively difficult task, so recruit some friends or family members to help you lift and flip it safely—two to three people should be plenty.
Move your dock as close as possible to the body of water in which it will rest before beginning the next step. Add the decking. Take your 1x4 boards and screw them into the support beams to create a deck.
Secure the dock. A very simple method is adding another eye hook to the outside of the dock, driving a piece of rebar into the ground, and tying off the dock using your leftover polypropylene rope. If you want to keep the dock more firmly fixed in one location, simply install more tie-down poles on the shore and add more eye hooks to the dock. Otherwise they should also be removed. It won't deteriorate anytime soon, plus it will add some useful weight.
As for the anchors , you'll need some seriously heavy ones: Each submerged anchor loses about one-third of its weight in the water.
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The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!! It all depends on what the dock building material will be, because you have to figure out how much it weighs.
I can tell you how many barrels to use if you can tell me what your dock will weigh the floating portion, and the portion that is a hinge to shore. Dave Davidson1. It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color. Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done. Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. My plan is to use pressure treated 2x6x12's for the base and the joices.
Then 1x6" for the decking. I gotta figure the dock will be lbs itself with all the hardware and wood. The plank is gonna be 3 ft width 12' long and is going to mount to 2 4x4 cemented poles on land.
The plank is going to connect to both the 4x4's on land and the deck with some kind of heavy duty galvanized piano type hinge. Does that help at all? Getting closer. How many 2x6x12's you planning on using on the floating dock part? I'm assuming that the plank will have three 2x6x12's? Treated is supposed to run close to 37 to 41 pounds per cubic foot. Three for the box and the rest 1"x6"x3ft deck boards. The dock will have the 4 for the box. Then I am thinking 8 down the middle.
So if I put 3 down the right side, and 3 down the left I have 2 boards butting those up to the sides at 24" apart. Then in the middle of the dock 2 more boards 24" apart for any drums I have to put down the middle.
At 16" spacing roughly 4. So basically I will try and put 2 more on the left and 2 more on the right. So what did we end up with adding These figures are rough, but it should get you close. Each 2x6x12, depending on how wet they are will weigh a minimum of 20 each. Each 1x6x12 roughly half that. I'm guessing that you'll have close to in the 12'x12' dock with the gangplank resting on it, not including the weight of the hardware and drums. So, I'd figure on using four 55 gallon barrels just to support the weight of the floating pier.
Add 1 barrel for each person that you expect will be on the pier at the same time - figure maximum amount of people and you'd be fine I think. I'd be leery of just attaching the dock to the shore and leaving float around as it wants, putting all the side force on the hinges. If it was mine, I'd leave the gangplank slide over the top of the floating 12'x12' platform, and sink a couple pieces of pipe in the pond bottom, using a couple of "U" bolts over the pipe, letting the platform slide up and down over the pipes.
Just think how easy it is to bend something if you were to pull on it from 24' away. All that pressure is being put on your hinges and hinge hardware. Don't forget to figure out a way to capture the barrels to the pier in case a lot of weight gets put on one side and the other side lifts out of the water.
You don't want a barrel floating out from under the dock. I am really hesitant to sink poles in the bottom of the pond. I was thinking of two heavy pieces of cement resting on the bottom and then criss crossing them and attaching them to the bottom of the dock on the far side. As for the plank, what about a type of hardware that is like a rod attachng to the poles on land.
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