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Originally Posted by Swanpoint guy
"...Forum experts...We moved to the lake 3 years ago and our cottage had a dock that was surviving on duck tape and luck...We plan on staying at the lake for a long long time, so quality is most important..."
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IF I had it to do over again, I'd build a "skid" for a huge, but useless, boulder uphill from where our present "permanent"
piling dock eventually got built.
I'd have moved that boulder downhill into the lake so its depth was adequate to mount a cross beam above the highwater mark; then, I'd have built a steel "cage" around it, and bolted one
lo-o-o-n-g section of dock to it—and design the cross beam to be adjustable for any shifting that resulted from "seasonal events".
'Course that would have been only possible years ago, before DES would frown on "altering" the lake.
BUT...you may already have such a boulder in place!
