Floating Dock

WaKeOrDiE! · Posted: May 06, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject: Floating Dock

My friends and I want to build a floating dock, does anyone have any plans for a floating dock?

M3snow010 · Outlaw Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 124 City: Rochester

id just get a bunch of plastic 55 gallon drums from a carwash and build a sturdy frame to hold them then use like plywood or something on the top, if you want to make it into a box use bathboard for the top, sorry i dont have any plans though

gborgh · Criminal Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 55 City: IA

we used about twenty 55 gallon drums under our dock. We built the out side frame with treated 2x10's and put a 2x10 in the middle of the dock to nail to. We then used 8 foot 2x6's in the middle of the doc to nail to It ended up looking something like this ____________ We used 16 foot 2x 10 and
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gborgh · Criminal Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 55 City: IA

I forgot to mention that you place your 2x6's 16 inches apart and used 1/2 inch plywood. You can place the barrels in between the 2x6's and we used metal bands(the stuff they use to hold lumber together) to make sure the barrels could not go anywhere. The picture did not quite turn out like I intended.

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

how did u guys get the drums? i dunno where we can get them online...

jbt200 · Posted: Jun 27, 2004 11:33 am Post subject:

aubs, Most car washes will give them to you for free.. there soap comes in them.

simland · Posted: Jul 01, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject:

good tip to remember

alafiaboarder · Posted: Jul 09, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

i got 4 55 gallon drums for a 36 foot flat-bar, got them from an old powerplant that used them to hold phosphoric acid in them....wait, thats why we got them for free... Shocked