so i got this huge freagin' pond in the back of my house, and a crapload of 2x10's and 2x4's left over from a previous project, about 8 of each, about 8' long.
anyway, i gots this idea for a dock using the 2x10's, braced by the 2x4's, wanting it to head out around 15-16' into the pond.

suggestions on how to ancher it to the land?
suggestions on how to ancher the water end down? (float it on empty 55 gal. drums?)
(fill 5 gal. buckets w/ cement and drop them with streaks?)

15' out, believe it our not is only around 4' deep for some reason...

im so oblivious as to how to ancher this thing, dont want it floating away

 

We built one whan we lived in Alaska and lived right on a lake. We used three 55 gallon drums as the floats and took another drum and cut it in half. We used tie down chains ~ the big ones the truckers use ~ and wrapped them through a cinder block and put one in each drum, leaving enough slack to attach them to the bottom of the dock and then filled the half drums with cement. When they cured, we rolled them into the water and muscling them around was intersting, but got them where we wanted and chained them to the underside of the dock through oversized eye bolts. I loved it! Our lake was quite big, 1 mile long and 1/2 mile wide, so boats and jet skiiers were on it all the time. We made waterproof score cards and when the jet skiiers came by, we would hold up the score cards and score them on their jumps and stuff. Whenever we were too hot, we would hold up the '0' or '1' and the jet skiier would almost always come back around and blast us with the spray of his rooster tail! That's when we would start laughing and hold up the '9'!

Edit: Take a hammer and roll the edges of the anchor drum over into the cement because kids love to be under the dock and try to sit on the anchors. This will keep their feet from getting cut!

 

We used to drive 3 ft. spikes and tie off to them. On the water side, two concrete blocks on each side will hold with no problem.

 

thanks snowbunny!


tewfer, you mean the cement blocks w/ the 55 gal. drums?

 

No just plain old basement blocks with a chain going through them, and attached to the dock. It works just fine, and if you need more weight.
Add another block.

 

will the pond freeze where you are in ct???

ive bowhunted pomfret,canterbury, woodstock for years.

id say the floating barrels for the dock, so it would be easy to bring in for any reason.

build your ramp all the way down, anchoring it somehow, but make it so that the dock is detachable, and floats. in new england with my personal experience thats how alot of them are.

 

If your water gets much turbulance, then the waves will wash it ashore if your anchors aren't heavy enough. The ice on our lake was three to four feet thick and we never had trouble. Our ramp was completely independent of the dock so as the water level changed or as the dock bounced in the waves, everthing could compensate on it's own. Even with our two heavy anchors, we still had to push the dock back out at least once a year. But, we had boats making some pretty heavy wakes. If it's only a pond, you may not have that trouble! Good Luck!

 

living on a pond, I'd Anchor the dock to floor of the pond woith poles, or 2x4's would work

something like this
http://www.branimirphoto.ca/stock/im...-2806-1123.jpg