Building a DIY FLOATING DOCK at our OFF-GRID PROPERTY (PART 1) Cement Piers & First Dock
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- Building a DIY FLOATING DOCK at our OFF-GRID PROPERTY (PART 1) Cement Piers & First Dock
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Morning everyone!
The grass is looking beautiful!
I watch with interest as your plans unfold , I like your persistence .
Good morning 👨🌾🇮🇪. Thursday morning coffee club ☕️.....to enjoy on the dock 🚣
Howdy Ger!
Sam Valentine morning Sam
Gooooood Morning the dock will be a nice place to have a cup of coffee on
Good morning Ger ☕️🌅
Hello Ger, have a really good day!
Gooooood morning this morning from the MS gulf coast I hope everyone has a great day
Gooooood Morning
Howdy Erick!
Good morning Erick ☕️🌅
@@samvalentine3206 good morning sam
@@Heisstrong good morning
here is a thought. build a small coffer dam around the drain pipe. the water could rise and then flow over the dam to exit the existing pipe. you could also us a couple of 45 elbows to raise the pipes inlet.
Nice to see you building again.
Give Gina a great big hug. That lady is awesome! Right there beside you, and not afraid of working with tools.
If you want a deeper larger pond, good reason to proceed. Might consider adding a step down from the pilings to the walk way. If any of your family or friends visiting have any physical challenges you could ramp the transition vs step down to give access to all. Pond seems pretty happy at it's level...sometimes simple ideas like an extra foot of water opens up flood gates (no pun intended) :D not a homesteader, but enjoy all your family shares about your journey. God bless all of you as you transition one one home to the next....Jim
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy watching your family accomplish your goals. You are all working hard together to make your lives enjoyable. Thanks for sharing.
The longer you guys take to post a new video. The more opportunity I have to rewatch your old videos. Win-Win!!!
Good morning my amazing friends.... Have a very blessed day everyone
Good morning Jason! Hope you have a great day my friend!
@@daviddavis703 thank you brother, you too
Good morning Lumnah Acres family and friends.
Goooooood Morning Lumnahs!!!!!!!!!!
Howdy Ray!
Gooooood Morning
Good morning Ray ☕️🌅
Hi ya Ray, have a good one!
2 barrels side by side will help with the stabilization, single barrel will always rock!
Lol at "that's not going nowhere"
Famous last words 🤣
What could go wrong!!! Lol
Reminds me SO much of my brother. I have learned to bite my tongue. I love him too much to want to start an argument over something silly, like dropping the old refrigerator off the deck and down into the neighbors yard.
I was like man he is gonna lose that on first good bump...then 5 sec later, lol.
A really great addition to the pond.
Cover for the trout from flying predators , that's why you're the farmer , and good to see lumber prices falling. Its gonna be a very nice week , enjoy kids !
Love watching your new projects. We definitely can use a lot of your rain out here in California. Please send it our way.
That dock will be a nice addition to the pond! Blessings to all.
Good Morning Al, Gina and Olivia
Looking good!!!
Jumping off the dock was the best fun when I was a kid. Loving your peaceful pond and its surroundings.
Cant get this song out of my head "Sitting on the dock of the bay, watching Al roll in " lol stay safe and well everyone best wishers from the North Norfolk coast UK
Good morning Lumnah family ☕️ vacation is over, 1st day back to work. I’m already looking forward to the next vacation… have a blessed day
Howdy Joseph - that first day back at work is one of the hardest. You're still in the afterglow of the vacation, and that helps for a while, and then WHAM - you realize you need a vacation as you already mentioned! You can do this! Onwards and upwards - the next vacation will be here before you know it! 👍
@@samvalentine3206 😎👍
One piece of advise on the equipment that has hydraulic cylinders. Try to leave the cylinder ram retracted as far as you can to keep them protected from the weather. Even though the rods are hard chromed, they can still rust and that will destroy the seals and cause hydraulic leaks which can be expensive to repair or replace.
yep totally agree on this i was a hydraulic repairman for 40+ years with the Government, changed many a set of seals due to the rams corroding. when you grease you unit put a light coat of grease on the cylinders this will help protect them.
Aren’t there caps that should be put on the ends of the hoses when unplugged?
After 20 years at sea, working with hydraulic boat David’s. I wholeheartedly agree !!
@@rodfair5698 As a fellow Navy Veteran, thank you for your service.
what you need on the off-grid property is a wood mizer LT70 sawmill make your own wood, you have plenty of trees on the off grind property. also for the new house that you want to build I think it saves a lot of money. and it's also fun to make videos for RUclips. greetings from the Netherlands
Not code unless you get the lumber dried and graded for a house. However you can use ungraded for outbuildings and barns so it would be wise in the end. Just have to buy framing lumber for any place that is used for human housing.
JudithB Well, never built a dock, but I think 2 barrels on the end, or 3 barrels as wings was a good idea! I would add a swimming ladder on the end too. Boat cleats for the kayaks too. I would be fencing pastures, getting pipe corners cemented in, and road built to house site instead of toys.
Looking great Al
What was Gina's reaction when she saw that you were swimming all by yourself the other day? I really like this new format where you only post every couple of days. It gives me time to rewatch your videos in between posts. I get to see things I missed from the first time that I watched it. I had up to 60 subscriptions and I whittled them down to about 5 and Lumnah Acres is one of those 5. You guys are GREAT vloggers!!!!! Mahalo from Hawaii!!! Aloooooha!!!!
As a fellow New Hampshireite….. I welcome all the rain. Certain areas of the state are finally starting to come out of the drought status. Looks good so far.
Good morning to everyone at the Lumnah Acres channel!Greetings from Kamakura, Japan! 🇯🇵
Howdy Robert!
Gooooood Morning Japan how’s the gardening going
@@samvalentine3206 Hello Sam! 👋🏾
@@LumnahAcres It’s still going well! 👍🏾
Good evening Robert 🌆👍🏻
You may need to add another barrel to stabilize it a bit. Just Al on it and the 1 barrel nearly "disappears.". Just a suggestion.
or add a wing on each side with a barrel under each. more dock space
Good morning Gina,Olivia and Al !!
There are stainless strapping that will hold your barrels in place for ever!
Good morning, Lumnah family! I'm a little surprised you didn't build in your shop and haul it to the property. It appears to have turned out just fine. Maybe two barrels, lengthwise for the next one for stability! Love the progress, stay the course!
nice dock thanks for bringing us along
I Love It!!! What a Gorgeous Pond!!! What a Blessing!! God Bless and have a Wonderful Day!! 😀❤⚘
We had a floating dock at our lake property. It was about 30’ long and widened out at the end to about 12’ wide. We had three barrels per 10 ft section. It was a larger lake. We could pull the ski boat up to it.
Good Morning Everybody from Enniskillen, Ireland.
Gooooood Morning Ireland
Howdy Earl Grimes!
Slainte Tony ☕️
Sam Valentine morning Sam
@@samvalentine3206 Good Morning Sam.
Sorry Ali I saw that coming! I kinda knew the barrels would shift!🤣 made the same mistake myself... awesome on the dock build, will make fishing a lot more fun... 👍🙏💥🎉🎊 I was just looking, can you make a wooden spill gate for the pipe? The thought was, a gate you can slid up and down to control the level!
Don't mess with a pond that's working. Raising the water level in that pond may make it prone to flooding/flowing over the bank or spillway.
Al
I’m convinced you can do almost everything.
I never would have thought of a floating dock.
Really nice👍🏻💕🌻🙏🏻
You’ll figure it out👍🏻🌻
Share some of your rain with us in CA🤗
Gooood morning Al, Gina, Olivia and the whole gang..
Howdy Mr. G!
Gooooood Morning
Good morning Mr G ☕️🌅
@@samvalentine3206 Howdy Sam!
@@Heisstrong Morning David
I believe you said you were planning on attaching a dock, when you do the buoyancy of the dock will raise the end of your walkway and reduce the bounce. I recommend finishing the dock before you consider raising the pond level.
Good morning Lumnah family and friends from NE Mississippi! Hope everyone is well!
Nice to see you building again Al. I love the sound of the birds at you guy's OGP. Thanks for showing this. It was fun to watch.
Interesting! Want to see ya'll fishing!
Awesome dock!!!!!!!!!
Love the deck 👍
Nice project guys. You two are always one or two steps ahead of us. Thank you for sharing this with us.
We have a spring fed pond. Did have cat tail on one side for baby fish to hide in. Lots of fish. County cleaned out all the cat tails and now very few fish. Always leave a few cat tails over the years as you will be cleaning out some every few years.💕💕💕💕
What an interesting project. Thank you for sharing.
PVC pipe driven into the pond bottom will allow the dock to move up and down, but offer stability as well when you mount sleeves to the dock in which to put the pipe. We did a floating dock in Wisconsin shaped like a T that way, but allowed us to retrieve it in the winter as well. You may adjust with filling the barrels with some water too, trying the height of the dock.
When you build the other part of the dock and attach it, it will greatly improve the floating stability of the first part.
Your floating dock will be fantastic when you get it completed Al. Maybe go into a pool store and see about adding a dock ladder too.
This is going to look so great!
I wish, I had your confidence in working with wood this way. Not sure, raising the water level is a good idea, though. It will have an impact on the surrounding area and ground as well.
The lumber that has been stored in warehouses from the bidding war is gradually being sold off and now we are getting back to normal prices. There was far more framing lumber stored than treated. Love the drill/hammer combo you have there. The battery is real strong and can take that beating.
Greetings to my fellow Lumnahs! Be safe and hang in there!
Gooooood Morning Sam
@@LumnahAcres - 'Morning, Al, Gina & Olivia!
Good morning San..💥
Good morning Sam ☕️🌅
Morning Sam 👋😊
Geez that’s a beautiful tractor. We need some of that rain in California. We’re a bit dry…
You should put another floating dock over across the pond by the big rock, too. Maybe you could put a little ladder off the end of it(the dock) so you can climb up it to get out when you go swimming.
Having had a pond or two, I can tell you that you are really gonna like the overall effect when you bring that pond up 8 or 10 inches... It will really look different... Good start on the dock...
Morning y'all, deck sure is looking good.
Good Morning Lumnah family. It’s sunny (well it’s still dark out) Naples here. I didn’t get a notice this morning and your video just showed up at 6:20. Important thing is you’re on the tube now. Blessings to the whole Lumnah family. ❤️❤️❤️
Your the second person who said that. I wonder why. It’s been out since 6
@@LumnahAcres after it finally loaded it said that it had be posted 20 minutes earlier. Well, that’s RUclips for you. Haha Loved your cement mixing technique today. If it works, just do it. 😁🇺🇸
@@Naplesfrank154 - Yes - mixing the concrete down in the Sonotube with the ground water was a very good idea!
Al, when I lived in NJ, I used to repair the docks at my marina. We found that barrels weren’t stable enough. We used styrofoam that measured about 10”x10” and I think they were about 8-10 feet long. Since they were flat, the docks were pretty sturdy. I’m guessing that you will start the house maybe next year? If you lived down here, you’d have beautiful weather all year long. I sometimes miss the 4 seasons.
@@Naplesfrank154 We did that also in Missouri but then found that the Styrofoam allowed bad algae to grow on it. Bad for the environment. Maybe if cut to size then coated with something. Do some homework.
BEAUTIFUL
Al - so glad you did not do the ring around the barrel before testing the sea worthiness of the dock!
Good Morning, Lumnahs & all you viewers! That floating dock will be great. I hope you’ll be able to Gina out on it. She doesn’t look real thrilled with it now. Stay safe & healthy.
Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇺🇸👍❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Howdy there, Vicki! Wishing you and yours a wonderful week!
Howdy Vicki! I could swear I already said "hello" here. If this ends up being a dupe, that's why! Wishing you safety and health as well!
This is not the dock, it is only the walkway. Once the dock is built and all are attached properly it will be very stable and Gina will relax. Besides what is the worse that could happen? you fall in the water??? No worries if you can swim. Not even a long fall. Gina is a worry wart sometimes and Al likes to tease her on occasion it seems.
Good morning Lumnahs
Howdy Chris!
Gooooood Morning Chris
Good morning Chris ☕️🌅
Good morning y’all!
Good morning Chris! Hope you have a great day!
Good morning all
Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Good morning to you David!
@@teresahyneman4349 Good morning Teresa!👋 Hope you have a great day!
Lovely job
Good morning Lumnahs and friends.
Gooooood Morning
@@LumnahAcres morning AL and family.
Howdy Lisa!
@@samvalentine3206 morning Sam.
Awesome place.
Phew that's a relief is over the pond ,,thankfully don't need too we don't have fire arms,,good luck in your new adventure it's going to be one roller coaster 🍺🍺
Al: Great start on your new dock! I'm not sure that just one barrel will be enough support if you have more than just a couple of people on it at the same time. One way to achieve several benefits would be to consider adding a Tee-piece (of similar dimensions as your original) across the outer edge of the dock and add a couple of barrels under it for extra flotation support. This will not only increase the dock's stability, it would provide more casting space when several people want to fish at the same time. If visiting kids want a place to jump or dive off, you've met that need too. Just a thought for you to consider.
Hello great video. Cant wait to see the next video. Love watching every video i can. Keep them coming.
Put a barrel either side at the furthest out part of the floating platform to give it more stability or you will keep going for a swim when you meant to go fishing 👍
Gina is so worried about Al falling in. ………So, he gets wet. Stands up in 4 feet of water. And, has wet feet for the day. I don’t see a problem. 😁
LMAO 🤣
I would use banding strap to hole those barrels on the dock, I built docks before. Straps and then bolts.
Goooood moooorrrnnning Al, Gina and Olivia fellow Viewers and all my friends. Hoodie from Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲. Let's go floating 🤔🤔😃😃
Good morning Lloyd! Have a wonderful day my friend!
@@daviddavis703 Thanks David. Please do same
Morning Lloyd hope you have a good one!
GOOD MORNING!!!
GINA, the one we had grow up was a bit wide and the approach was little more stable due to large post that was on walkway buried in ground to stabilize the approaching the floating pond deck we had a latter to use at the end so climb in and out, we didn’t like the walking in the mud. The post was left tall & a short post was just attached to the deck not ground so we had a little railing to hold onto thin we was on floating deck. We had two very large ponds the one with deck was 40ty feet deep and other one was deeper than that spring feed we did most fishing was at the pond without the deck. The ponds were divided by one lane dirt road, the upper pond could drain into the lower pond, the depth of ponds was done by divers. Have fun we did growing up we never worried about falling in we, had our latter to climb out, if you walked out the pond, would be over our heads so fast but due to mud we didn’t walk out unless we had to. May God Bless You…
Nice dock!
Good morning from MICHIGAN. I could not find you till 6:07 a.m. THANK GOD. I did.
Gooooood Morning. I guess RUclips was hiding us for a few minutes. Glad you found the video
G'Morning, Evalina!
@@samvalentine3206 Me too Sam
I love WATCHING this family. GOD BLESS YOU. CHOW
Good morning Lumnah Acres
Gooooood Morning
Howdy Skull!
I like your dock. Reminds me of a raft we had as kids. It lasted for years.
Good morning everyone from Az..💥💥💥💥
Gooooood Morning
Howdy Cocoadiva!
Brilliant idea with the floating dock! Looking good so far. The walkway part of the dock I think will stabilize when you attach the 8x8 ft dock platform. If not, use two barrels lengthways beside each other at the walkway end. Connect walkway and platform with a hinge. To prevent sideways movement you could drive down say 2.5" pipes on either side of the walkway into the pond bottom.
Famous last words “that’s not going anywhere”… we all say it and it almost never fails that something goes somewhere lol
Good morning now I love your custom-made fly fishing platform that you're making for the catching rainbow trout on the pond. Have a great day young man much peace and love from Northeast Texas🤠🇺🇸
Great video and it’ll be great to just sit and fish soon
I made a 3 section dock on Lake Blasdale in Sutton New Hampshire. We used a chainsaw mill to make the lumber. Last time I was up there the dock was still doing well. I think it was '92 we made that dock.
Good Morning, y'all
Howdy Doyle!
@@samvalentine3206Morning, Sam
what about setting a couple of your large boulders in to the ponds edge and then anchor to them. Seems it would be easier than pouring all that concrete. And look a lot cooler too.
Man, I love it when we get to build something! And I have never seen a dock built before...sweet ;-)
GREAT video,loved guy's!!!!!!
Gooooood Morrrrrrnig Lumnahs and other Peps 👋😁.
Howdy CC!
Look Forward to your Videos!
Great job 👏 Al! Can't remember if you are building your new home or having it built?
Can't wait for the next video
I agree with other viewers to not raise the water level of the pond. It's best to work with the natural level than to change what's already been established.
I was in the other room listening. I thought this was Adler farm or Arms family homestead by the music. They seem to want to sound "macho" with the music. You guys are coming along great!!! Its fun to watch your progress.
(except for the music)
Hi..... AL and Gina nice to see you love watching your videos, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👨👩👧👸👕👓🐩🐔🐓🐥🐕🐖🐈🐝🐠🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍
Great fun thanks