Shaun this is an old thread. As to your question I assume you are building a floating dock as pictured above. As I stated I used plastic barrels. They work fine but do not have the floating capacity as Styrofoam blocks or the flotation devises that Dwight used on his Barge/deck boat project. If the walk out gets too long and creates a load on the dock that makes it tip up under the weight simply add a float or floats under the walk itself to counter this. In my case if I had made the dock longer it's weight would have overcome the walkway pushing down one end of it. If you have to go way out you might want to drive piers and make part of the walk solid and only hinge the end of it at the dock
Last edited by rockytopper; 06/04/08 04:16 PM.
