The drone shots are great for providing instant situational/geographical context. I'm also interested in hearing re corrosion control if any. Great project.
I have done several dock's on Austin and we always use 8" piles also. Right now we are doing 100' of stairs on Travis hanging off a cliff. On Travis we float all dock's using encapsulated foam.
On Pickwick lake we have a steel pile dock that I've decided to protect with some corrosion control. For fresh water, magnesium sacrificial anodes are better than zinc. I'll be using Thermoweld to weld the cable that goes from my piles to a ten pound magnesium brick that rests on the lake bed. That protects what is in the water, but above waterline is not protected by the sacrificial anode. For that part, I'll be using petrolatum tape from Denso. Finally, I'll protect the soft petrolatum tape with huge pvc pipe that I split and then reconnect with pvc glue and a final secure with stainless steel wire connected with a ClampTite tool.
I'm looking for info on driving piles for a cabin. It will be located at the bottom of a hill and above a spring, so the will always be water moving through. I think pipes will give less washout than a grid of sonotubes. My small cabin has been on this location for ten years with no apparent problems, and it is on sonotube and blocks. When the hole is drilled, it immediately fills with water.
You talk as though you are the authority on pile driving and construction. You missed one very important thing. Most viewers are are not the people who can afford the ridiculous price of an enormous overbuild.They are watching for ideas to do their own projects, either DIY or to contract out. I am a licensed builder, a marine contractor and project consultant. I advise my clients to invest in building correctly and substantially for their individual needs. The excess cost of a piling to hold that much weight would be better spent somewhere else, and if there is plenty of funds for everything they want, then in there retirement. The truth about pilings is they do not have to be driven to bed rock or to any other hard base for most applications residential or commercial.BUT the pilings must have enough surface area in the soil to provide static resistance and therefore be able to sustain the weight placed upon it for each particular application.You may need a soil sample and an engineer to calculate the surface area needed. Even in mud there is a calculation that would easily sustain the small boat house that you are building.
Hey guys! I am in the process of having a two-level boat dock built in East Texas and have a question about the length of the piling required for support. Is anyone still out there?
The drone shots are great for providing instant situational/geographical context. I'm also interested in hearing re corrosion control if any. Great project.
I have done several dock's on Austin and we always use 8" piles also. Right now we are doing 100' of stairs on Travis hanging off a cliff. On Travis we float all dock's using encapsulated foam.
schlaznger do you have a link to your work?
I missed corrosion control. Any long term issues with steel pile foundations in that environment? I look forward to the series to find out.
On Pickwick lake we have a steel pile dock that I've decided to protect with some corrosion control. For fresh water, magnesium sacrificial anodes are better than zinc. I'll be using Thermoweld to weld the cable that goes from my piles to a ten pound magnesium brick that rests on the lake bed. That protects what is in the water, but above waterline is not protected by the sacrificial anode. For that part, I'll be using petrolatum tape from Denso. Finally, I'll protect the soft petrolatum tape with huge pvc pipe that I split and then reconnect with pvc glue and a final secure with stainless steel wire connected with a ClampTite tool.
I'm looking for info on driving piles for a cabin. It will be located at the bottom of a hill and above a spring, so the will always be water moving through. I think pipes will give less washout than a grid of sonotubes. My small cabin has been on this location for ten years with no apparent problems, and it is on sonotube and blocks. When the hole is drilled, it immediately fills with water.
Love the project
Cool project!!
How much did this cost?
Looked like you had a couple of drone shots. So are you using that now? Great video Matt.
Very interesting
You talk as though you are the authority on pile driving and construction. You missed one very important thing. Most viewers are are not the people who can afford the ridiculous price of an enormous overbuild.They are watching for ideas to do their own projects, either DIY or to contract out. I am a licensed builder, a marine contractor and project consultant. I advise my clients to invest in building correctly and substantially for their individual needs. The excess cost of a piling to hold that much weight would be better spent somewhere else, and if there is plenty of funds for everything they want, then in there retirement. The truth about pilings is they do not have to be driven to bed rock or to any other hard base for most applications residential or commercial.BUT the pilings must have enough surface area in the soil to provide static resistance and therefore be able to sustain the weight placed upon it for each particular application.You may need a soil sample and an engineer to calculate the surface area needed. Even in mud there is a calculation that would easily sustain the small boat house that you are building.
doug pitt I was thinking the same thing. Who could afford that?
Even a small bait dock will run 30k. All boat docks are over charged. Think I’ll start my own boat dock company charge half what everyone else charge
meh, should have hired out a Bagger 288 bucket wheel excavator to dig out all the muck in the lake, then pour concrete footings.
Hey guys! I am in the process of having a two-level boat dock built in East Texas and have a question about the length of the piling required for support. Is anyone still out there?
As usual another architect taking credit for an engineer's work
How do you created a video and use bad terminology? Call it what it is a wide flange beam.