Please help with my dock.

I was asked to build a dock on lake front property. Does the dock have
to float or can I build it like I would a deck? Please help. The dock
would run 20 out into the water and would be about 2 feet deep at it's
deepest point.

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Chris F
Long Island, USA.
Fisherman by nature, goofball by society.

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America the beautiful wrote:
I was asked to build a dock on lake front property. Does the dock have
to float or can I build it like I would a deck?

Floating docks are for lakes that have moving water levels, I have one
on a lake that it's levels move 30 feet every year.


Lakes that have steady levels, or where the end is not in deep water
should be built on post, it's cheaper, stronger, and safer






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Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

I suggest that someone else builds the dock if you need to ask this
question!"America the beautiful"
dom_Fries wrote in
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I was asked to build a dock on lake front property. Does the dock have
to float or can I build it like I would a deck? Please help. The dock
would run 20 out into the water and would be about 2 feet deep at it's
deepest point.

--
Chris F
Long Island, USA.
Fisherman by nature, goofball by society.

"Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed
between our countries at the time, displayed foresight and determination
to meet our proposals halfway and change our relations for the better,
stop the nuclear race, start scrapping nuclear weapons, and arrange
normal relations between our countries," - Mikhail Gorbachev


"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." - Ronald Reagan



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I've built a dock onto existing water like that. I used pressure
treated lumber and contruction blueboard as the floating material. I
built it exactly like a deck. I used 2X10's as the side boards. The
blueboard was 2" thick and I used 4 pieces together for a 4X8X8"
float. My walk out is two sections and each section is 4'X12' long.
Each section has 1 4X8X8" module of blue board keeping it up. The end
section is 10'X8' and has 2 blueboard modules on either side. To keep
the dock from moving side to side while you walk on it I put U bolts
in the wood on the side sections and inserted 1" galvanized pipe
through them and into the water and then pounded them into the mud at
the bottom of the pond. It keeps it rock solid. Here's a link to it.
It only shows one walk out section, I later added a second.

http://www.wildlifereserve.org/dock.html

Blueboard should hold 55 pounds per square foot of foam.

Sam


America the beautiful dom_Fries wrote in message et...
I was asked to build a dock on lake front property. Does the dock have
to float or can I build it like I would a deck? Please help. The dock
would run 20 out into the water and would be about 2 feet deep at it's
deepest point.

--
Chris F
Long Island, USA.
Fisherman by nature, goofball by society.

"Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed
between our countries at the time, displayed foresight and determination
to meet our proposals halfway and change our relations for the better,
stop the nuclear race, start scrapping nuclear weapons, and arrange
normal relations between our countries," - Mikhail Gorbachev


"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." - Ronald Reagan

Sam Hopkins wrote:

I've built a dock onto existing water like that. I used pressure
treated lumber and contruction blueboard as the floating material. I
built it exactly like a deck. I used 2X10's as the side boards. The
blueboard was 2" thick and I used 4 pieces together for a 4X8X8"
float. My walk out is two sections and each section is 4'X12' long.
Each section has 1 4X8X8" module of blue board keeping it up. The end
section is 10'X8' and has 2 blueboard modules on either side. To keep
the dock from moving side to side while you walk on it I put U bolts
in the wood on the side sections and inserted 1" galvanized pipe
through them and into the water and then pounded them into the mud at
the bottom of the pond. It keeps it rock solid. Here's a link to it.
It only shows one walk out section, I later added a second.

http://www.wildlifereserve.org/dock.html

Blueboard should hold 55 pounds per square foot of foam.

Sam

That would be 55 pounds per cubic foot of foam, not per square foot. A
large difference.

Jon

Build the dock that floats. You may also consider adding a 10hp motor
to it. Register it with the local government as a homemade boat. There
was an article in Adirondack Life a while back about this. Many
residents of Star Lake, I believe, built such "docks/boats" and would
meet together at the middle of the lake for get-togethers. Pretty cool
article. Pretty wild "docks." Two-level, seats 15 people,
slide-equipped, gas grills and even a head.

(Sam Hopkins) writes:

I've built a dock onto existing water like that. I used pressure
treated lumber and contruction blueboard as the floating material.

Thanks for the great explanation. We're planning to build a dock on
my parents' pond when it finishes filling up, and were wondering how
best to do it.

Do you just have two pipes driven into the bottom to keep it in place,
then? Any idea how far you drove those into the ground? That was our
main concern with a floating dock: we weren't sure what it would take
to keep it in place on a windy day.


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Aaron