Very nice dock work. Great idea on the launch of the dock smart guy there.

I personally after using ours for a summer half with half without the weights the weights take 50% or even more bounce out of the dock.

I personally would have filled all the barrels 1/3rd full of water first. This sounds odd but it would set our 2X12 right with the water level when no one is on the dock and when people are on the dock it is then in the water a bit and we are closer to the water. This would also add more mass that needs to be moved up and down and would stabilize the dock even more.

I know it would be much harder to get the barrels in but if you can add water before you deck the dock I would add water to them. You can then balance the dock out too. I put one barrel under my gangway and should have two. I had to really push the one barrel down deep to get enough lift to level the dock for how much weight the gang added to the dock. I would not put any water in the barrel for the gang.

Cheers Don.

P.S. with the five gallon bucket pully system the dock was not quite level. Just put in some more rocks in the one bucket that was hanging not the anchor bucket and it leveled the dock perfectly.

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