How To Build A Floating Dock With Plastic Barrels

4 4x4 pressure treated posts.

How to build a floating dock with plastic barrels. It offers detailed instructions and shows step by step the process. This is a video of the construction of a floating dock using barrels. Drums sit the dock higher above the water a typical dock floating on 55 gallon drums will sit about 20 above the water. Build your deck frame.

Lay down all 4 of your barrels between the supports that have eye hooks and tie down the barrels with rope. This is a floating dock that s easy to make and works beautifully. You will need to run a few beads of silicon caulk to the barrel plugs to make sure to keep the water from filling them. 4 55gallon plastic barrels 100ft of rope 16 screw in eye hooks 10 to 20 l shape braces.

4 2x8 pressure treated lumber. Have a helper lift one end of the dock and roll the plastic barrel under the frame. It is best to use treated wood. Drums slide easily across the ground the round shape and ruggedness of drums allow a dock to be easily dragged over sand gravel even small rocks.

Purchase or find four 30 gallon plastic drums for your diy floating deck project. Install the barrels under the floating dock. This video breaks down the construction of a floating dock. Great for first time builders.

17 1x6 pressure treated lumber. Hook your dock up to your truck and drag it up on shore. When autoplay is enabled a. It covers the how to component of building a floating wharf plus it includes dimensions and offers a parts list of all materials that.

Here is quick parts list of everything i used. Tie a knot to the eye hook on the end string the rope across the barrel to the eye hook next to it on the other side lace it diagonally to the opposite eye hook across again and finally to the last eye hook. Install the other barrel in the other end of the frame.