Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Property Projects & Construction Corner brackets for floating dock?

I struggled with the cost of the components and tried my best to figure out a way to avoid them. Making them myself, having them made, not using all of them,stealing them (not really), but in the end I figured that the Menards prices were the best and constructing it with all the braces would lend to the longest life possible. Aside from having the right scrap iron on hand already...just the cost of the steel to DIY would get pricey. I don't want to build this thing again..it hurts too much as I get older to even think about it. And, they come hot dip galvanized...nothing better but stailnless steel and talk about expensive. He's a photo of my dock going togehter and you can really see all the places where the proper brackets will resist the twisting that a floating dock is subject to...it's got braces at most every wood joint and one on the inside and outside of the corners...