DIY Floating Pond Dock

We make a floating dock using pressure treated lumber and plastic drums.

[kevinmartin]

One of the best informative videos I have ever seen very informative... thank you for not dilly-dallying around and getting right to the point and the script on the screens was great and the music was pretty good thank you so much for sharing.... excellent end result

[tmo]

I had watermeal that came back every summer. After spending thousands of dollars and couldn't kill it, I drained my pond and sprayed the bottom. Lake filled back up and watermeal free for 5 years now!

[keystonebrotherb]

I have to go 60 feet out! The hardware is gonna put me in the poorhouse!

Great no nonsense video. Thanks for posting.

[guybumbling]

Nice dock. Need to invest in an aerator for the pond though. I just built a 10'x16' swim platform in much the same manner. Used 2"x6" PT fir framing to reduce weight of the dock frame. Also used eight 63gal black pickle barrels. With less deck framing weight, and higher buoyancy of the 63gal barrels, the decking frame stands 12" without load. And can hold about 1, 200lbs load before bottom of frame comes close to water. A fun project for sure!

[Bamacountry]

Awesome build fellas, looking at doing a similar style dock on my new pond..

[ocmulgeeog]

Nice job yall I wish I could have all of your help with mine tomorrow lol, thanks for the video

[bagermaster-club]

Great pier! It can be used as a raft for a mini dredger to clean the lake from mud. To do this, you need a motor pump for dirty water and a suction nozzle Bagermaster

[reganarendse]

Awesome construction. Very informative video

[nandoazevedo]

Awesome job..planning on building one and watching many videos but this one is the best..very informative and good details. Congrats..
Only questions is...is this dock really half the size of the pond?

[thomasmay]

Nicely done. If I ever help you out next time can I be the guy holding the rope while everyone else is lifting? Looks like a great job for me. ;). Seriously though, great DIY video, Fogies!

[milkdiscofunk]

Was there any prep work done to the barrels to ensure their water-tight performance? Very nice video.

[KLFaber]

It turned out great. My only suggestion would have been to use 2x10 instead of 2x12 for the perimeter. The 2x12 boards do a great job of hiding the 'ugly' barrels, but they also come much closer to being in constant contact with water - which can only decrease the life of the skirting. But then again, I have yet to build one of these ... so FWIW.

[alejandrocabrera]

Excellent video, how is it doing after two years...?
I am going to start building one and your video is the best I found so far.
Thank you 👍

[woodyrowe]

Two questions....what is the overall size of the dock and what is the spacing on the 2 x 20 joists? Great video - thanks for posting.

[domassimonavicius]

Hey, did you prepare the wood in some way? I mean impregnate it or smth? while there are a lot of contact with water. Also what kind of wood did you use maybe pine?

[ES]

NIce design guys! did you or do you feel the need to add water to some of the barrels to add stability or is stable enough with empty barrels.

[geotechie]

What would you recoment to keep the dock from drifting like in a lake?

Thank you in advance

[jeremywolpert]

Hope you see this. How exactly did you install the pin joint? It shows you drilling the holes on the 4' gangplank but the pipe is 5'. Not sure how to physically install it. Using this as a guide to help my son with an Eagle Scout project. TIA

[jerrypease]

Hey fellas, nice work on the dock. I haven't built one of these since I was in high school, but this is the exact size I was considering going with for our neighborhood park. That said, There's going to be very few people stepping up to help, but many who will have their "concerns" and "what ifs". To keep costs down I'm going to use 2x10 at 16" OC. that will put the dock more "on" the barrels then over them. Did you feel the 2x10s with the 12 barrels still allow a stable platform? I guess I should also mention I'm only using composite decking, so it won't be near as solid on top as yours since you used 2x's for the decking. Thanks in advance!

[zedwpd]

Looks like you need Blue Pond Shade Dye