Hey Tim, thanks for the shout out! You and Christy will love that floating dock. Ours has now been in the water for 4 years and our family and friends use it very frequently. It makes you feel like you are on a boat, but in your back yard. You are more than welcome to swing by sometime to see it/the pond. As you stated, we aren't that far apart. I'm excited to see how this turns out with adding a roof. We always throw up a shade when we are out there. The trex decking gets hot! All the best! -Adam
Neil Koch Is one of the nicest RUclipsrs I've ever watched a genuinely nice person who would do anything for his family definitely my favourite RUclipsr. I always look forward to Sunday mornings
Very cool & interesting project, Tim & Chisty!!.. Thanks for sharing.. Looking forward to the finishing work and the launch of this bad boy!!.. Have a nice weekend.. God bless..🙂
What an undertaking. While I imagined you and Christy enjoying a gazebo near the pond, you will now have the best of both worlds, a gazebo, and being ON the water! Blessings.
If your water levels fluctuate a lot ,a floating dock is the way to go. My ponds never loose more than 2 foot depth throughout the year so a fixed dock works fine. I hope you're building that in manageable sections for transportation.
We built a pier (not a floating pier) on our pond in south Texas a few years ago. Used 6x6 posts, 2 x 8 framing, and 2 x6 decking. All the posts and framing were treated for submersion in fresh water. Regular lumber treated for ground contact with not last nearly as long if it is in the water or stays wet for long periods of time. Yes it is more expensive but it is a lot of work build it and the project with last longer. I also used the galvanized hinges. Using the hinges allows not worrying about the height of the pier in relation to the land. Hot galvanized hardware is the way to go for a pier.
The height of floation could be adjusted via the number of barrels. The displacement of each barrel is calculated to figure how many you need, we used to build floating duck blinds, that had boat hides inside them. You must subtract the amount of barrel that you want above the waterline to space your framing for where it rides on the barrel, so more than half since the barrels are captured above the midline. The main problem with plastic barrels is they will expand and contract in weather and the bungs are usually not very UV resistant becoming brittle and leaking. Being on a small pond, wave motion is not a concern with holding the barrels in place - we used ropes at first then moved to straps for our open water blinds, but would still lose some barrels in storms(top and bottom capture of the barrels would have been best on the framework, but we were trying to cut material cost - we went from wood to angle iron for our floation frames). You also want your floation greatest on the edges as your moving loads(people) will tip the structure. If you keep the traveled portions narrow, your dock will be more like a solid structure rather than, a dinghy. Since you are using pressure treated lumber it might have been better to just lay everything out in the garage, then assemble it all pondside, as that is going to be H E A V Y and hard to tote. Good luck.👍👍🤞
Very nice! Looks like a really nice dock coming soon. I have been wanting to do something similar on my pond too. Been going back and forth on rather to go fixed or floating. Since I didn’t get it done while my pond was dried up, looking like I will be doing a floating dock too. This video series is going to be a great future reference for me.
We had small floating docks on our aeration basins. They were need to get sampling done.They had four floats and made of steel. Only would support a couple of people.
You'll need some straps and wedges over the top of the barrels to keep frame from slipping over the barrels, keeping the barrels round and not compressing from the load of the deck
While living in Florida we lived on a pretty good sized pond. I had a dock put in with stairs going down to the water. If i had known how this guy was doing the work, i wouldn't have hired him to build a dog house. He cut corners like you wouldn't believe. He put in concrete pillars but never hooked them to any structure. Where the concrete met the wood he stuck in wooden wedges. He put on the boards for the deck but didn't manage to screw each board the whole length. He built the handrails and they didn't touch each other. I had to buy long deck screws and fix the railings myself. The for the ducks i bought some pressure treated 2x6 and made a picture frame, added the top boards. Flipped it over put styrofoam sheets in and used spray foam to keep them in, plus metal straps across. Put a big eye bolt in tied a heavy rope on that could withstand being in the water. Tied the rope to a heavy chain and secured it to a big concrete block. My wife and I took it out into the pond dropped the block. My old neighbor said it is still out there. I seen ducks on it and once an alligator laying on it.
Great and interesting video. I may be doing something similar next year and will keep this one in mind. Just FYI, all the "Internet Experts" will pointing out that when you are positioning a vertical timber so that it is perfectly vertical it is called "plum" not level. Level is only for horizontal. When you and Dave were taliking about putting lead shot in the barrel it reminded me of the saying "What is heaver, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers" Of course it is equal. So, 300 pounds of lead in the barrel or 300 pounds of water in the barrel would act exactly the same. It's just that the water would fill the barrel and the lead would only take up a small area inside the barrel.
My Father in Law and I built a 12x12 floating platform with the same treated boards and 55gal blue barrels. I really hope you did the actual calculations with measuring the boards and add all the weight. Treated wood gets heavy fast and that looks like a lot of treated wood before decking.
Also keep in mind the barrels need to be sealed shut and I drill a small hole on the top side to allow for pressure to escape. You also need to keep in mind the barrels will look ugly if you have any algae. Even a pressure washer doesn't seem to clean them white after one season
I wonder if the weight of the structure is going to cause the shape of the barrels deform and perhaps break the seal at the barrel lid, causing them to flood? Spray foaming the remainder of the barrel compartment could stop that. Not sure if that would be an issue or not…. Anyway…. Thank you for the video!!! Stay Safe Folks!!!
Cool project. I'd be concerned about a structure built on top of a floating dock as anything above the waterline will behave like a sail. I used to spray aquatics and one of my sites had a round tussick (a floating mat of vegetation) that would move around the pond based on the direction of the wind.
@@TractorTimewithTim You could put in pilings if the pond isn't lined or if it is then use heavy concrete anchors that you could make yourself. Either way you would have either aluminum or galvanized tube with a bracket that would attach to the dock. This would allow up and down motion but not side to side. If done correctly with enough of these points it should help the dock survive most average storms.
@@mrpete9958 I lived on a houseboat for 10 years. The marina in which I stayed was started in 1966 and added on to over the years. Last time I checked, it had 1300+ slips, and is one of the largest freshwater marinas in the US. They started out using clusters of old engine blocks for each anchor point. At some point the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers decided that was a Bad Idea (tm) and they switched to massive concrete blocks.
I know nobody likes an arm chair quarterback, but I can’t help myself. You could have wrapped each drum with strapping, and taped them on top. Then placed all the barrels under, untapped the straps and screwed them into the wood. It looks great so far. Great, wholesome channel 👍🏻👍🏻
After I changed models to screwing the strap into the side of the board, yes. When I was trying to screw into the bottom of the joist, this would not work. Did not have room to get to the screw with multiple barrels side by side.
Oh, don't add water to the barrels. It will freeze in the winter and you run the risk of it compromising the barrels. It can also put pressure on your structure.
I really like this idea. I need to rebuild the dock on my pond and this is giving me some great ideas. Looking forward to seeing how the project develops and your plans for the roof. I like that idea. Question. Where did you source the plastic barrels? Thanks for sharing this. Stay safe
Nice! Interested in your gazebo project. Also interested in info on the metal shelving you have behind dock project. Where did you get them & do you have a utube on that project? Thanks, looking for sturdy metal shelving that I can store my implements and pallets on.
The orange stuff is called pallet racking. You can find used on Craigslist or FB marketplace. The yellow shelves are available at Menards, etc. they roll, and are very handy.
Who else is humming Roll Out the Barrel ? Fish will hangout in the shade of the dock, just drop straight down in the darkest part of the shade. Think about the angle of the sun and stay on the dark side. No, I've never fished docks or fished much at all... really ! My dock isn't a floater instead I built it in place, for me that's over 13' of water. When you're in a boat you can't pull a tape or anything without tying the boat off because you'll go in that direction. If ya push a saw you float away. There were a few other funny type things about working out of a boat that slows ya down. You won't have this problem but a thousand boats will go by while you're on a ladder in a boat. A 2' wave is exaggerated on top of a 10' ladder. I was in my early 30s then, I wouldn't want to do it alone now.
Hi Tim, I had a couple of questions: 1) will the lumber swell and cause problems with the fit of the barrels? 2) When you add the gazebo, will the number of barrels you use be enough?
I think you were correct about gazebos. I believe a better name for what you are building would be "pavilion'. What I would call a gazebo would be an open sided circular or any other shape with more than 4 equal sides. Pentagon, hexagon, octagon, heptagon, or any other symmetrical open sided structure. All open sided structure could be called pavilion', but that doesn't work for gazebo. I don't believe a gazebo can have 90° corners.
I have seen many youtube videos using bait barrels for the billets like you did. What I don't understand is why they don't use proper dock billets. You can even buy them from Home Depot. They come in all kinds of shapes and weight ratings and provide better protection from UV, marine growth, etc. They are also designed to be built around. For a backyard pond i guess the bait barrel method is fine but if you build this for a place that might have the float hitting the bottom (tidal) I would not recommend bait barrels.
No idea why you use the term ‘bait barrel’. Never heard that. These had car wash solution in them. Anyway, the store bought floats are very thin and can be crushed by ice. The shape of the barrels allows them to be pushed upwards rather than crushed by ice.
@@TractorTimewithTim I live in coastal Maine, always see those on the boats full of bait fish. Call em that here. Note I have a dock built with billets they are foam filled so they wont crush easily and if they get a leak they wont lose all of their buoyancy. But we also dont leave docks in the water in the winter, ice crushing is not the issue ice forming around the dock can easily move even my 2, 2ton granite moorings with the tidal flow. My dock does sit on the floor during low low tides which our floor consists of granite rock.
@@hagak1679the tides are huge up there. Quite amazing. We certainly don’t have much knowledge of dealing with docks…I’m hoping that the lack of big waves will make our situation easier to handle.
Maybe there is a reason why you didn't, but I would think you would want the bung openings to face inside so you wouldn't see them from the outside of the dock.
Good question. There is a sturdy ‘ring’ around the top of the barrel which has most of the strength. I wanted that ring to the outside for strength purposes…as it is being squeezed between the joists. Hope that makes sense.
To be correct, the posts are not level, they are plumb. "Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand."
They will eventually get a leak ,especially from the caps , once a few barrels fail the dock will start listing Barrels have a potential to leak , look into some type of solid foam to fit into your cavity’s , throw those Barrels away, you’ll be glad in a few years, I speak from experience
Prayers for you all and your dock from the land of 10k sandpits and 100k docks. Why not just go to a proven dock store?🙏. Not all channels are as spot on best info available as yours my friends.❤️. Is it going to make it out of the door?🥹
That’s ok though because you can use some of the material to build a roof and a tornado shelter. Put some wheels on the supports and a tow hitch so your friends can share in the joy. Love you all and you have helped me and Deb many times over the years with our small land!
Hey Tim, thanks for the shout out! You and Christy will love that floating dock. Ours has now been in the water for 4 years and our family and friends use it very frequently. It makes you feel like you are on a boat, but in your back yard. You are more than welcome to swing by sometime to see it/the pond. As you stated, we aren't that far apart. I'm excited to see how this turns out with adding a roof. We always throw up a shade when we are out there. The trex decking gets hot! All the best! -Adam
That's going to be a very nice dock! Well built!
Neil Koch Is one of the nicest RUclipsrs I've ever watched a genuinely nice person who would do anything for his family definitely my favourite RUclipsr.
I always look forward to Sunday mornings
Thanks for the mention! Can’t wait to see the rest of the build.
Thanks for the detailed video!
Love Dave’s laugh there. Got a feeling when this is on the water, it will be super cool/all worth it.
Yea, we’ve had a good time on this dock. You’ve got a special son in law there!
I'd recommend filling every 3rd or 4th barrel with marine foam.
That's a really cool dock build can't wait for the next video👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Very cool & interesting project, Tim & Chisty!!.. Thanks for sharing.. Looking forward to the finishing work and the launch of this bad boy!!.. Have a nice weekend.. God bless..🙂
Locktite. Will work like a lock nut with a vinyl insert to act as the lock.
Like the Bible verse at the end👍🏻. . . . cant wait to "go home"😁!
Good luck with your dock👍🏻
What an undertaking. While I imagined you and Christy enjoying a gazebo near the pond, you will now have the best of both worlds, a gazebo, and being ON the water! Blessings.
I’m thinking I won’t have to mow around it this way!
@@TractorTimewithTimLOL Oh I get that!!
If your water levels fluctuate a lot ,a floating dock is the way to go. My ponds never loose more than 2 foot depth throughout the year so a fixed dock works fine. I hope you're building that in manageable sections for transportation.
We built a pier (not a floating pier) on our pond in south Texas a few years ago. Used 6x6 posts, 2 x 8 framing, and 2 x6 decking. All the posts and framing were treated for submersion in fresh water. Regular lumber treated for ground contact with not last nearly as long if it is in the water or stays wet for long periods of time. Yes it is more expensive but it is a lot of work build it and the project with last longer. I also used the galvanized hinges. Using the hinges allows not worrying about the height of the pier in relation to the land. Hot galvanized hardware is the way to go for a pier.
Really cool project.
The height of floation could be adjusted via the number of barrels. The displacement of each barrel is calculated to figure how many you need, we used to build floating duck blinds, that had boat hides inside them. You must subtract the amount of barrel that you want above the waterline to space your framing for where it rides on the barrel, so more than half since the barrels are captured above the midline.
The main problem with plastic barrels is they will expand and contract in weather and the bungs are usually not very UV resistant becoming brittle and leaking. Being on a small pond, wave motion is not a concern with holding the barrels in place - we used ropes at first then moved to straps for our open water blinds, but would still lose some barrels in storms(top and bottom capture of the barrels would have been best on the framework, but we were trying to cut material cost - we went from wood to angle iron for our floation frames). You also want your floation greatest on the edges as your moving loads(people) will tip the structure. If you keep the traveled portions narrow, your dock will be more like a solid structure rather than, a dinghy.
Since you are using pressure treated lumber it might have been better to just lay everything out in the garage, then assemble it all pondside, as that is going to be H E A V Y and hard to tote. Good luck.👍👍🤞
Several years ago I built a raft similar to your dock design with some friends and floated down the river a few times. Those were the good days
Very nice!
Looks like a really nice dock coming soon.
I have been wanting to do something similar on my pond too.
Been going back and forth on rather to go fixed or floating. Since I didn’t get it done while my pond was dried up, looking like I will be doing a floating dock too.
This video series is going to be a great future reference for me.
Thanks. Regret not doing fixed while pond was empty, but simply didn’t have time to focus on it.
We had small floating docks on our aeration basins. They were need to get sampling done.They had four floats and made of steel. Only would support a couple of people.
That looks great 👍🏻
You'll need some straps and wedges over the top of the barrels to keep frame from slipping over the barrels, keeping the barrels round and not compressing from the load of the deck
While living in Florida we lived on a pretty good sized pond. I had a dock put in with stairs going down to the water. If i had known how this guy was doing the work, i wouldn't have hired him to build a dog house. He cut corners like you wouldn't believe. He put in concrete pillars but never hooked them to any structure. Where the concrete met the wood he stuck in wooden wedges. He put on the boards for the deck but didn't manage to screw each board the whole length. He built the handrails and they didn't touch each other. I had to buy long deck screws and fix the railings myself. The for the ducks i bought some pressure treated 2x6 and made a picture frame, added the top boards. Flipped it over put styrofoam sheets in and used spray foam to keep them in, plus metal straps across. Put a big eye bolt in tied a heavy rope on that could withstand being in the water. Tied the rope to a heavy chain and secured it to a big concrete block. My wife and I took it out into the pond dropped the block. My old neighbor said it is still out there. I seen ducks on it and once an alligator laying on it.
That looks pretty heavy Tim. I wish you good luck in moving it.
its just wood and plastic how heavy can it be
Treated yellow pine is heavy!
Looks fun. Expensive too.
Next, Christi wants it to be screened in😅 I do too. ❤
This is interesting.. will it be used often!!! Wait to see ...😮😅
Once you put the roof on and get it properly braced, those post will be a lot stiffer.
The iPhone level.....9:00.....Genius! Love it!
Very NIce
Yes, Neil is my favorite a long with you Tim!
Great and interesting video. I may be doing something similar next year and will keep this one in mind. Just FYI, all the "Internet Experts" will pointing out that when you are positioning a vertical timber so that it is perfectly vertical it is called "plum" not level. Level is only for horizontal. When you and Dave were taliking about putting lead shot in the barrel it reminded me of the saying "What is heaver, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers" Of course it is equal. So, 300 pounds of lead in the barrel or 300 pounds of water in the barrel would act exactly the same. It's just that the water would fill the barrel and the lead would only take up a small area inside the barrel.
AND only if the barrel's wall compostion is less dense than water would it float.
Don’t use lead in a lake unless protecting your life.
Not sure if that's a typo, but it's actually spelled "plumb"
My Father in Law and I built a 12x12 floating platform with the same treated boards and 55gal blue barrels. I really hope you did the actual calculations with measuring the boards and add all the weight. Treated wood gets heavy fast and that looks like a lot of treated wood before decking.
Also keep in mind the barrels need to be sealed shut and I drill a small hole on the top side to allow for pressure to escape. You also need to keep in mind the barrels will look ugly if you have any algae. Even a pressure washer doesn't seem to clean them white after one season
I wonder if the weight of the structure is going to cause the shape of the barrels deform and perhaps break the seal at the barrel lid, causing them to flood? Spray foaming the remainder of the barrel compartment could stop that. Not sure if that would be an issue or not…. Anyway…. Thank you for the video!!! Stay Safe Folks!!!
Cool project. I'd be concerned about a structure built on top of a floating dock as anything above the waterline will behave like a sail. I used to spray aquatics and one of my sites had a round tussick (a floating mat of vegetation) that would move around the pond based on the direction of the wind.
Yea, will it fly away?
@@TractorTimewithTim You could put in pilings if the pond isn't lined or if it is then use heavy concrete anchors that you could make yourself. Either way you would have either aluminum or galvanized tube with a bracket that would attach to the dock. This would allow up and down motion but not side to side. If done correctly with enough of these points it should help the dock survive most average storms.
@@mrpete9958 I lived on a houseboat for 10 years. The marina in which I stayed was started in 1966 and added on to over the years. Last time I checked, it had 1300+ slips, and is one of the largest freshwater marinas in the US. They started out using clusters of old engine blocks for each anchor point. At some point the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers decided that was a Bad Idea (tm) and they switched to massive concrete blocks.
OH BOY!!!
I know nobody likes an arm chair quarterback, but I can’t help myself. You could have wrapped each drum with strapping, and taped them on top. Then placed all the barrels under, untapped the straps and screwed them into the wood. It looks great so far. Great, wholesome channel 👍🏻👍🏻
After I changed models to screwing the strap into the side of the board, yes. When I was trying to screw into the bottom of the joist, this would not work.
Did not have room to get to the screw with multiple barrels side by side.
It’s always easy to sit here and say what someone “should have done lol. It looks great so far.
Oh, don't add water to the barrels. It will freeze in the winter and you run the risk of it compromising the barrels. It can also put pressure on your structure.
salt water? or something similarly cold resistant?
Sounds like a job for the RIMGAURD truck to bring some beetjuice. 😊
I really like this idea. I need to rebuild the dock on my pond and this is giving me some great ideas. Looking forward to seeing how the project develops and your plans for the roof. I like that idea. Question. Where did you source the plastic barrels? Thanks for sharing this. Stay safe
Easy to find resellers of the barrels on fb marketplace
@@TractorTimewithTim thanks I’ll look into that. 👍
Nice dock! Btw, it’s plumb, not level on vertical pieces. Do you have a drill press? If not, they are handy for drilling those straight holes.
Nice! Interested in your gazebo project. Also interested in info on the metal shelving you have behind dock project. Where did you get them & do you have a utube on that project? Thanks, looking for sturdy metal shelving that I can store my implements and pallets on.
The orange stuff is called pallet racking. You can find used on Craigslist or FB marketplace. The yellow shelves are available at Menards, etc. they roll, and are very handy.
It is all about displacement.
Tim, let Dave know we all appreciate the length of his shirt tail, 0:05
Who else is humming Roll Out the Barrel ? Fish will hangout in the shade of the dock, just drop straight down in the darkest part of the shade. Think about the angle of the sun and stay on the dark side. No, I've never fished docks or fished much at all... really !
My dock isn't a floater instead I built it in place, for me that's over 13' of water. When you're in a boat you can't pull a tape or anything without tying the boat off because you'll go in that direction. If ya push a saw you float away. There were a few other funny type things about working out of a boat that slows ya down. You won't have this problem but a thousand boats will go by while you're on a ladder in a boat. A 2' wave is exaggerated on top of a 10' ladder. I was in my early 30s then, I wouldn't want to do it alone now.
Hi Tim, I had a couple of questions: 1) will the lumber swell and cause problems with the fit of the barrels? 2) When you add the gazebo, will the number of barrels you use be enough?
I suppose we’ll see!
I thought we answered or at least thoroughly discussed the buoyancy of our barrels.
Water will also displace 1/3 of the weight of an object when submerged.
Plumb! Not 'Level' LOL
RIMGAURDSOLUTIONS truck can bring beet juice to partially fill those barrels. Safe for the environment and won't freeze.
Ha!
I think you were correct about gazebos. I believe a better name for what you are building would be "pavilion'. What I would call a gazebo would be an open sided circular or any other shape with more than 4 equal sides. Pentagon, hexagon, octagon, heptagon, or any other symmetrical open sided structure. All open sided structure could be called pavilion', but that doesn't work for gazebo. I don't believe a gazebo can have 90° corners.
Oh well. MY gazebo will have 90 degree corners :-).
@@TractorTimewithTim just called it what it is, a pavilion. 🤪
Horizontal is level. Vertical is plumb
O no Tim forgot to subSCRIBE.
Is Dave Katrils husband? Or family friend? Anxious to see this complete!
We met Dave in Honduras. Kenton’s grandson.
@@TractorTimewithTim oh ok! I guess i cant place Kenton? Sorry
@@lisaleeper9399 i need to do a website write up on Dave.
I was hoping you would go for “Foolish is the man who builds his house upon a pond”
Ha! Foolish is the mad who builds his house in a shed, but intended for his pond :-)
@@TractorTimewithTim I just figured a tractor or tractors would be used to haul that to the pond.
It is, after all, on brand.
@@andrewkirch5920correct.
I’m more interested in the gazebo. I have an existing dock I want to retrofit a gazebo on it.
I look forward to seeing you move the dock Johnnyx can probably lift it all on his own haha
I have seen many youtube videos using bait barrels for the billets like you did. What I don't understand is why they don't use proper dock billets. You can even buy them from Home Depot. They come in all kinds of shapes and weight ratings and provide better protection from UV, marine growth, etc. They are also designed to be built around.
For a backyard pond i guess the bait barrel method is fine but if you build this for a place that might have the float hitting the bottom (tidal) I would not recommend bait barrels.
No idea why you use the term ‘bait barrel’. Never heard that. These had car wash solution in them.
Anyway, the store bought floats are very thin and can be crushed by ice.
The shape of the barrels allows them to be pushed upwards rather than crushed by ice.
@@TractorTimewithTim I live in coastal Maine, always see those on the boats full of bait fish. Call em that here. Note I have a dock built with billets they are foam filled so they wont crush easily and if they get a leak they wont lose all of their buoyancy. But we also dont leave docks in the water in the winter, ice crushing is not the issue ice forming around the dock can easily move even my 2, 2ton granite moorings with the tidal flow. My dock does sit on the floor during low low tides which our floor consists of granite rock.
@@hagak1679the tides are huge up there. Quite amazing.
We certainly don’t have much knowledge of dealing with docks…I’m hoping that the lack of big waves will make our situation easier to handle.
LIKE SPIKE 👍
What is the total number of cheese burgers the dock will support?
Hmm. Come on over and we’ll find out!
Maybe there is a reason why you didn't, but I would think you would want the bung openings to face inside so you wouldn't see them from the outside of the dock.
Good question. There is a sturdy ‘ring’ around the top of the barrel which has most of the strength. I wanted that ring to the outside for strength purposes…as it is being squeezed between the joists. Hope that makes sense.
Question…… How many cheese burgers will it support?
Come on over and we’ll find out :-)
To be correct, the posts are not level, they are plumb. "Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand."
where did you get your barrels im close to you.
Fb marketplace…a guy north of Frankfort.
250 pounds of water in a 30 gallon barrel and 250 pounds of lead in a 30 gallon barrel has the same buoyancy. The average density is the same.
You just asking for trouble using the barrels down the road ,I speak from experience, eventually the barrels will fail
How so?
They will eventually get a leak ,especially from the caps , once a few barrels fail the dock will start listing
Barrels have a potential to leak , look into some type of solid foam to fit into your cavity’s , throw those Barrels away, you’ll be glad in a few years, I speak from experience
@@bigpaddy8363interesting. We sealed the caps with silicone.
We’ll see how it goes.
I brought new caps and siliconed them closed, the barrels have failed me , I’m lopsided in the water now 😮
Prayers for you all and your dock from the land of 10k sandpits and 100k docks. Why not just go to a proven dock store?🙏. Not all channels are as spot on best info available as yours my friends.❤️. Is it going to make it out of the door?🥹
Uhoh! Gonna have to tear down the shop to get it out!!!
That’s ok though because you can use some of the material to build a roof and a tornado shelter. Put some wheels on the supports and a tow hitch so your friends can share in the joy. Love you all and you have helped me and Deb many times over the years with our small land!