Dock Floats Versus Plastic Barrels

[joebojanic]

The difference is if the floats get punctured they will continue to float. The barrels will take on water and sink.

[MONK-]

thank you for the upload guys I'm gonna use the drums for my project. cheers from Belfast Ireland.

[Builds]

awesome demonstration. thumbs up. "there's stuff coming out" lol .

[joeljoseph]

Wonderful just wonderful, I wanted to build a dock but was wondering about the drums. But your example made my day 🎉

[robertspencer]

Nice demonstration, you earned a subscriber!!!

[shaunholdaway]

The plastic around the dock float is just used to protect the high density foam which is what is really providing the buoyancy. If you get a hole in the barrel it fills with water and sinks.

[NicwNite]

Thanks for showing this. I’m going to get a drum for my project.

[johnnypartain]

Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks

[josephhorton]

Yeah baby! I never saw this one! Awesome! Hey Phillip hope all is doing great we love our 40 foot (2 twenty footers) Rolling Barge! I need to add more barrels to make it uber bulletproof, but it still is just fine as it is! Homeowners on Blue Lake either bought from you after seeing my long dock under the view of Mt Hood or they complained later when the lake lowered in the middle of the summer and their boat was 3 feet lower and their new dock was just as useless as it was the year before. Carry on!

[henrynevins]

Thank you for that video, now I know the right choice for building a floating dock. Next question, where do you find plastic drums?

[songofthepassaic]

With a swing like that, thinking you can put Cole to work in the collections dept :D

[linckup]

idk whats best but the barrel moves when he hits it taking the shock away, but the float is flat taking the full force so its not fair

[ericclark]

The perfect float is drum filled with styrofoam beads, bean bag filling, dock float cases are weak and break, barrels don't.
Changed my mind, just found poor in closed cell foam, the stuff is great, pore in barrel let cure cut off excess and glue down tops.
Can't be destroyed.

[jamikaynelson]

Well, if the drums fill with water they will sink obviously. If the dock floats fill with water they will be fine as they use Styrofoam to displace the water.
I'm using drums as the price is right!

[joeritter]

What happens when you fill the barrel with closed cell foam and the barrel can no longer flex to disapate the energy of the hammer blow? I'm sure it's still stronger than the flat side of the dock float. But i have my doubts that it'll hold up to the claw side of the framing hammer. It's just not an apples to apples until they're both able to maintain floatation when damaged.

[joeherleth]

Did he try to return the dock float and get his money back ?

[tpher]

Make the drum rigid or under pressure and then see what happens. Your demonstration isn't comparing a barrel as it would be in use, where the dock float wont change when its in the water. Also if the barrel gets punctured, which is definitely possible when its under pressure, it will sink, where the dock float will not.

[moriwaki]

I live on a lake for over a decade, drums ALWAYS fail over time, they leak and can't support a heavy dock while on dry land. In my experience, envirofloat out of Victoria BC is the best made. Period

[richardandmichellelifeadve]

Wow I did not know, but if you think about it carefully the drums contain chemicals so has to be strong for safety standards,

[trlptqz]

This was originally posted 8 years ago. Curious how many of you built your floating dock with barrels and had them leak/fail on you?