How To Build A Floating Dock With Plastic Barrels
Install the other barrel in the other end of the frame.
How to build a floating dock with plastic barrels. It is best to use treated wood. 7 2x4 pressure treated lumber. It offers detailed instructions and shows step by step the process. How to build floating dock with barrels.
The barrel should fit snugly into the framed cavity. By tiara maulid june 19 2017. When autoplay is enabled a. 4 2x8 pressure treated lumber.
Floatingdock homemadedock barreldock homemadefloatingdock this is our floating dock we have been using for 8 years now. 4 55gallon plastic barrels 100ft of rope 16 screw in eye hooks 10 to 20 l shape braces. Each drum should provide around 250 lbs of flotation. You will need to run a few beads of silicon caulk to the barrel plugs to make sure to keep the water from filling them.
Have a helper lift one end of the dock and roll the plastic barrel under the frame. Install the barrels under the floating dock. Great for first time builders. This is a floating dock that s easy to make and works beautifully.
Its been working great and only has a few things i would change. 4 4x4 pressure treated posts. 17 1x6 pressure treated lumber. Here is quick parts list of everything i used.
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