I've been reading about docks and quite a few members speak of using 55 gallon drums for flotation. I have not had such great luck using floating drums, short of filling them with closed cell foam (and taking out the required second mortgage to do that) they have always ended up partially filling with water. Maybe because I want to leave them in over the winter I am asking too much from the drum but after pricing the foam filled dock floats, I figure it's worth one more inquiry. BTW the floats from Menards are not foam filled.

So can someone tell me the secret to using plastic drums for dock floats?

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