How to Build and Attach a Dock to Land - EASY Diy with Barrels

Hey everyone! Last year we built a floating dock. Here’s the link on the full how to 👇🏽

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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[joshthompson]

Great video. It’s nearly impossible to find someone responsible to build a dock on a lake. Very informative. Thanks

[chrisrestifo]

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

[Sailorman]

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.

[chadjansen]

Super cool Video! I have a 90 foot houseboat and this is just what I feel I need to builld for it. Thanks again!

[heliomarperes]

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

[barrybail]

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.

[tapartacus]

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

[rogermorgan]

You answered a question I've been struggling with for a while. Thanks!

[willemshepherd]

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!

[Bdoodee]

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

[hyrax]

Thanks this is soooo helpful! We're going to build this and, like you, aren't finding helpful tutorials anywhere else.

[unicopachulo]

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 †

[nev]

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!

[ozer]

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.

[Savanna_]

It's a great job, will give you some advice soon, thanks and keep on

[slammerjaxlive]

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.

[ShanonT]

Thank you so much for making this! After a year… with the freeze warm cycle… How did the concrete hold up?

[heriingerjunior]

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

[jeffhogg]

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.

[chriseiermann]

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