Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations boat ramp

Has anyone built a boat ramp after their pond had filled up? Does anyone have any ideas? My wife told me it would have been easier before the pond had filled up. I just shook my head and said I know. I wish that I had the forethought of Brettski. I love his boat ramp. Lowering the water level just isn't an option for me since it took over two years to fill the pond. I really got tired of watching the weather channel hoping it would rain. You know it's bad when you know all the local weather people by name and all the people on the weather channel.

James...
There was a very recent thread on exactly your question. I have searched everything I can think of and cannot locate it. It contained ideas of coffer dams, precast slabs, and dropping in bags of sakrete. Ultimately, the best idea (in my backwards engineered thinking) was the pre-cast slabs.
a little help

Thank ya, Sir. My local ready-mix company agrees.
So far, tho, it's best (and only) use has been to give me a place to wade in to take a bath after a long hot day workin' on somethin' else at the pond project.

There is a concrete block product called grass pavers. It is essentially a grid pattern block that can be laid down in sodded ares to allow the grass to grow up between the grids, while allowing driving a vehicle across the grid. The pattern is such that the bottom of the brick has a wide pad, while the top is narrower. You could lay these in place in a boat ramp to allow you to have a concrete surfaced ramp. Laid on sand, it should support the weight of a tow vehicle and trailer.

Thanks for the help any ideas would be appreciated.

I remember that thread too, Brettski (within last month, IIRC), and I can't find it either. Search may be screwed up right now with the threads split between 2 servers; we should re-search for it (in a couple days, fingers crossed) once the forum migration is complete.

I just found a product that is made by pavestone. It is a lattice just like the grass pavers and is made here in my town. If I understand the website you can buy it in sheets that are already cabled together or you can lay it brick by brick and cable it as you put it together. I may go to their office and talk to someone about it next week. Thanks Spinhirne.

Guys with the search " boat ramp " I found several threads on the subject with good links to the entire how to. I did not find the one I recall about pre cast concrete but only had a few min to look.

IDNR just put in a new boat ramp at a local fishin hole. They had the slab poured at grade down to the water's edge. A week later, they scattered half an inch or so of sand on top of the ramp, and then laid 6 mil poly on top of that.

Poured a second slab over that..waited a week and then a little bitty dozer simply shoved the top slab into the water. Now, there was an old gravel ramp there and it was quite a shallow pitch, but I talked to the equipment operator about it, and he said it pushed REAL easy, like a mid-size tractor could have done it. (Dozers don't get real good traction on concrete, anyway, so it couldn't have pushed too hard.)

I've been toying with trying something like that myself...got the perfect spot to do it. Got other slabs needing poured right now, before I spend cash on a boat ramp...for a 1.75 acre pond.