How to Build and Attach a Dock to Land - EASY Diy with Barrels
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024
- Hey everyone! Last year we built a floating dock. Here’s the link on the full how to 👇🏽
• Build a Floating Dock ...
And this year we decided to attach it to land.
This way you can enjoy it longer. Have a coffee in the morning and no need to get wet.
The next video I will be building a use off the end! Possibly a Tarzan rope. Who knows.
What do you think? What would be fun to attach to the new dock. I want to build something super fun!!
Thanks for watching!
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Great video. It’s nearly impossible to find someone responsible to build a dock on a lake. Very informative. Thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much :)
Thank you for the inspirational video!!! In my situation I chose to pour a 4' X 4' X 6" slab , inside of which I dug 3 holes. Two in the front and one on the back. I then drove 1" rebar into the holes about 2' into the ground to keep the slab from shifting. I then drilled two holes in the lake facing board and inserted two 3/4 threaded rod with two sets of nuts/ washers one the concrete side with the other end protruding out the front 4". Poured the " high strength " concrete (14 @ 80lbs. bag/ 1,480lbs) . I will be attaching a 6x6 to the threaded rods to which I will be attaching the gangway hinges. Also to address some other comments here. You can get pipe brackets to attach to the side of the floating section, commonly available at a good hardware store. Then drive the appropriate length 2" pipe into the bottom of the lake. This will keep the dock from moving sideways, yet still allow it to float with the waves. Thanks again!!!!!!!
im so glad this could help!! Great tip on the pipe! thanks :)
You answered a question I've been struggling with for a while. Thanks!
Glad to help! I couldn't find ANY videos on this issue so I had to show the world lol
Super cool Video! I have a 90 foot houseboat and this is just what I feel I need to builld for it. Thanks again!
chad jansen oh that sounds so cool. Hope it works for you!! I can’t see why it wouldn’t
Love this collection. Have built hundreds of feet of all kinds of docks including one 70 miles up Lake Mistissini, Qc. last week. Couldn't bring up cement for many obvious reasons, so we secured the finger dock by ropes to the trees and the raft by two anchors attached in typical cross pattern application to the front of the raft.
glad you liked the video! That dock sounds so cool!!
Congratulations on the beautiful solution you found to solve the back and forth of the tides. I will implement this deck here in Brazil. Thank you
Heliomar Peres thanks! I’m glad it helped you. Have fun building yours!
Found this very very helpful for the lake in my backyard. The one barrel you have on the 24 foot dock, is it just floating inn the water where your shore ends.
its attached to the concrete block on one end (land) and the other end floats on one barrel. hope this helps ya!
Building a floating dock myself and wasn't sure how I was going to secure it to the shoreline. This was very helpful great work
Awesome glad I could help!!
Thanks this is soooo helpful! We're going to build this and, like you, aren't finding helpful tutorials anywhere else.
Glad it was helpful! I have lots more videos and a few new ones that I am working on right now :)
Awesome work Denika! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Fred McIntyre thanks Fred! It’s like a little dock series haha
Nice job ! 👍 thanks for the video
glad you liked it! Did it help you out on a project?
Nice video, if you really want to stabilize that end dock grab four 5 gallon buckets and four saddles that you can buy at Home Depot. Fill the buckets with cement and place the saddle on the top of the cement. Go grab some hooks and screw them into each of the corners of your dock and secure an appropriate length of chain to hook each corner to a respective bucket anchor. Drop the buckets into the water and have people stand on the dock to put weight on it while you secure the chain to each corner on the dock. Voila! no more wobbling dock
Thats an awesome solution! thankyou
@@dcwoodworks my pleasure.
Great work and great video!!
CanadaDocks thanks so much!
Good work
Thank you! Cheers!
You mention that this was your first time building this and I tell you, you did an awesome job But let me add and don't take my advice's in a wrong way but in something to think about, there is a lot of things you do when pouring concrete that you should always take under consideration, like supporting the concrete walls so they don't curve on you. Also using rebar for a job like this (don't have to be a lot), the rocks are an excellent idea for filling up but they don't act as rebar and another observation that I thought it was not consider and important, was putting an anchor on the concrete box to the ground, in other words, to dig two, 4 inch round hole into the ground (like post holes) bellow the box you made, about 2 feet down to make sure that the Docks don't move the concrete you just pour into the lake. But I really think that before the docks move your concrete box, your brackets would brake first. I always look at other people build stuff that I know how to build because I believe that we all learn something new every day. Great video and awesome job and may the protected hand of God watch over you and your love ones on this pandemic crisis †
Sam I believe you ment break
I agree with you. I’m sure this dock will still work out, but adding large stones to the concrete does not act as rebar. It has similar properties to the concrete around it, and ultimately it will lower the life of the concrete poured around it. Coating the rocks in some bonding agent would help, but ultimately still not be as strong as a monolithic pour.
Really good and helpful!!!
Thanks so much! Glad it was helpful!
Looking good. Questions : what happens when the wind pushes the dock to one side, I'm not sure if those hinges will hold the weight. You should look into poles at the ends of the dock, riding up and down on D clamps so it still moves up and down but poles hold it from going side to side.
thats a great idea! it didn't pull this summer, its in a quiet cove but i will keep an eye on it.
Amazing looks so good. Thanks for the upload...........
my pleasure! i am glad you liked it
It would help the longevity of the dock by a huge amount to use Galvanized corner brackets - the screws or nails used on this will pull out in a period of a couple of years.. Essentially - any time you have a T intersection - add a metal bracket!
You are very right! We had to add those last year for this exact reason lol
Hey great ramp and dock building videos! I also had a hard time finding videos on securing ramps/docks to land. Yeah I think concrete pads are the best idea. Nice job! I would like to build something similar for a boat dock on a large river. Maybe I’ll take the time to make my own build video ha!
glad i could help you out! did you get a chance to build it? better yet did you make a video?!
It's a great job, will give you some advice soon ,thanks and keep on
Moawia Gubara glad you liked it!
great job!,,,, great vid
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for making this! After a year… with the freeze warm cycle… How did the concrete hold up?
Like it’s brand new! I bet it will be here for many many years. Works great
Nice video. i recently build a floating dock for our pond very similar to this one. Where did you get the hinges that you used to attach the walkway to the concrete anchor? Those would I think work perfect for our project. Thanks.
Hey! I got them from Kent Building Supplies
www.kent.ca
Just watched your video--great job! One question: do those hinges allow for the ramp to be "raised" higher than where they are attached to the concrete in flooding situations? I live in an area where we don't take our docks in and out of the water.
Yup! They can raise just as much as the dip. About a 30 degree. Hope that’s helpful
Great video, Thank you. We have got a ;arge pond/ lake on the land and I am planning to build a floating dock. I think I will use most of your video to follow. Would you know how big I can make my dock when using 4 barrels or in other words how many barrels do I need if I build a 25m2 dock?
Also it might be a little more secure to use the straps and clamps you would use on a roof rack to secure the barrels rather than just a rope - just a thought
Chris Eiermann nice! My floating dock is 10x10 feet. And could be bigger. The long dock I attached to land is 6 feet wide and 24 long and only half one barrel attached to the side that’s in the water. Barrels are deceiving they can hold so much dock.
That’s a great idea. I haven’t had one pop out *yet* but I’ve been thinking about different ideas on how to secure them
ruclips.net/video/RtmmBUMjTGQ/видео.html here’s an addition I added in the last two weeks. Would probably work for your pond also!
Thank you very good easy video
Glad it helped!!
Hey great video and new subscriber here. Might want to consider driving a few posts down on either side of the deck for stormy weather. A hard wind with cross current might rip it loose with that dock on the end, making it basically "top heavy". Don't attatch them, just use for sliders, if you want you could bend some rebar around the post in a U. I don't know where you are, I live in south U.S. and the storms here would rip that right off the land. Awesome to see a woman builder.
Awesome Thanks for the sub! Im in Nova Scotia so our winds get pretty strong but nothing like south although we thought about that actually, I might order "dock feet"
The worst element here is the winter and ice damning but it will be up on land by then.
Thanks! I hope to inspire other young women to venture into trades
@@dcwoodworks Well I'm a guy lol and found your video informative. I'm always trying to build something, and its rarely square, but lately I've been wanting to build a floating dock for our pond for my grand kids to fish and swim from. I did notice one thing, I think if you make a large concrete block again, you shouldn't put large rocks in it for filler. What you wind up with is some thin concrete around the edges, and that will break much easier, especially with the extreme low temps you get up there.
slammerjax LoL I figured that. I just meant that’s why I took my carpentry to youtube. In hopes more women will see me doing it and decide to try.
Trial and error for the concrete lol I’m
Pretty sure it will hold with all the larger spaces even though there are a few close to the sides. But we shall see. 🤞🏽 Finishing my next project today connected is a stand along deck and it hides the god awful concrete block. I’ll
Hopefully have it edited by the weekend
Stand alone ****** not stand along
@@dcwoodworks lol you're so funny
What does the icing over do to the integrity of dock?
We take it out of the water every winter.
@@dcwoodworks How do you get it out, it must weight a ton!?
Perfect! you are great at what you do! won a subscriber. I will be accompanying you and I will use your project as a base! We thank you for sharing your work! Success
Awesome I’m glad you liked it and so glad I could help with your project! You’ll love my next few videos. The ya re additions to the dock aswell.
I'll be following you always. congratulations
if possible, show how you set up this pier
I am editing it now and it should be finished within the next day!
Junior Heringer hey! I have the next video up. Here is the link ruclips.net/video/RtmmBUMjTGQ/видео.html it’s pretty cool
thank you. thank you. thank you
you are very welcome!
do you have a material list?
No it would depend on the total size of the dock you wanted to build
Thanks for the video. Did you use the same dock hinges to connect to the floating dock?
Hey David! yes I did, planning to add one more piece the same way
The only thing that would concern me is the plywood backing behind the hinge. That will rot and disappear over time, and the bracket will become loose, made worse over time by the movement of the dock against it. It would be better to cut out the plywood at the bracket and place face of bracket flush with inside face of concrete. (use a temp brace on the outside face to hold bracket in place while concrete sets.)
I already see this happening, So what I plan on doing is forming up a small form in the front and pouring new concrete to fill that gap. And I will drill small bolts in and around before I pour, in order to secure the two sections together.
Harika bir video .😎
sorry I wish I knew how to translate! RUclips should really have that option
@@dcwoodworks It's Turkish -- "great video".
DC Woodworks diyor: "Üzgünüm, keşke nasıl tercüme edeceğimi bilseydim! RUclips'da gerçekten bu seçeneğe sahip olmalı" (a translation of your note)
Amazing job you make it look so easy ❤️❤️💖
Shelley Kleemann thanks Shelley! Hopefully you’ll get to see it soon
nice...
Thanks! did you use this idea?
😍😍❤️🥰
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ooh la la! the barbell disc, what a mess! 3:42
J. D. Mendy that’s what happens when your in a Reno of an entire home that was rented for years!
Classy response and great job! I wonder about the wood left attached to the concrete though where the bolts attach.
Hello, great videos! I’m also in Nova Scotia! Are there any feet/legs supporting the dock between the concrete slab and the floating section? I am in the process of building something similar but I thought I had to build shorter sections with each one having legs/supports.
So cool! Hey! No there isn't. Just one barrel the end of it. The buoyancy these things have is mind blowing.
Hi! Does anyone know what those "hinges" are called?
Hey! they were just listed as a dock hinge at my hardware store.
@@dcwoodworks Ok! Thank! :)
You need to add more flotation at the end of the walkway.
its worked great for the past 4 years :)
show how you use it
i did at the end of the video
The first rule to using and enjoying a dock is easy access..... how are you supposed to access this dock....jump up the 5 feet on top of the cement block and then jump down the 3 feet to the dock? Why not make this 8 inches tall to allow for an easy step, it would still be plenty heavy. Bad idea!
You haven't dug too deep into my channel yet then have you? Or haven't listened to the part I say I am building a deck around the cement block to completely hide it.
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It looks great but you made a bunch of mistakes that will eventually make themselves clear.
It pains me to tell you that but next time do more research. It would be a sin to see all the
hard and awesome work you guys did eventually destroy that beautiful dock. Hope that I'm
wrong. Good luck and for now enjoy your hard work. You earned it Looks Great !
People watch these videos to learn. If there are mistakes, point them out specifically and offer a solution. I personally would love to know what she did wrong because I'm about to build a dock myself.
Amen to that Jeff. People are so quick to criticize vs help. 5 years later and it’s just like I built it yesterday and has help up perfectly