My grandson who was 18 at the time, and I, build a 16x20 floating pier, using 9-55 gal drums, and has worked pretty good for the past 2.5 yrs. With a trolling motor, I can move it around the pond for different reasons, swimming, taking large cedar trees out to be sunk, along with other things. It's not perfect but is pretty stable. When at the shoreline, I use 2- 1" steel pipes driven into the ground and rope to anchor at each corner along with two 5 gal buckets of cement anchors at the lake side corners of the pier. Not perfect but I works pretty good. Hay, I am no carpenter nor am I a great wielder but I was still proud of what he and I accomplished.
