New Dock on Pond

[samission]

Hi Bob, Cliff, and GerardC

Thanks for the encouragement on my project. We have a wedding reception here at the party house/barn this Saturday /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif and will not be able to work on the dock until Sunday.

Lowes has the ChoiceDek in redwood color in stock locally, we be going over there tonight to get the decking supplies. Hopefully will be able to get started Sunday, unless the rain tonight makes the grass jump up to high, then there goes 3 hours to cut the 10.5 acers on Sunday, but I would rather have to cut the grass then re-seed due to the long drought we have had.

See Ya later,
Steve

 

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Progress Update Report

Well it looks like we didn't use that decking from Lowe's after all. Had to many problems trying to get matching accessories, and a guarantee that we would be able to find the same color next year on our other projects (ie: another dock, and a deck for the party barn/house). Seems that the supplier for Lowe's has changed colors each year for the last few years.

So we went with western red cedar, took a while to find cedar decking in this part of the country but finally found it at a lumber supply in Columbus, OH. About a hours drive from here.

This pic is a front view of the dock, pond is still 18" to 20" down, hope we get some good rain soon. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

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This pic shows the dock from the bank, shows the nice looking red cedar.

 

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This pic is from behind the dock overlooking the pond, its fountain, and the bridge over the stream.

Well I'm still not done, still need to trim out the stairs with cedar, install a hand rail around the stairs. My wife wants an offset/fold out canopy (like the ones sold at Home Depot) mounted to the upper dock, we have a extra one in the garage. Then we want to put a park bench on the lower dock.

Will post more pictures when I am finished!

 

[TBAR]

Very Nice.......................you do good work.

That place is beutiful.


TBAR

 

[EddieWalker]

Steve,

What you have there is a work of art. Very Nice!!!!!

I noticed the bridge in the background, how about a few shots of that also...

Eddie

 

[samission]

Hi Eddie,

Thanks for the encouragement, I will try to get some photo's of the bridge soon, it need some work, maybe put it on the project to-do list.

Well the new dock got done 15 minutes before the start of our labor day party.

This first picture shows the completed dock with the new bench and umbrella installed, also the handrail to help people down the stairs to the lower level.

Pond level is still down 20" or so, still hoping for rain, looks like Frances is going a little east of us here later this week /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif, so no rain from it.

Steve
SW Ohio

 

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Same picture with the umbrella up.

 

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Picture from the right with the umbrella up.

 

[samission]

Eddie,

As requested, here are a couple of pictures of the bridge.

The bridge crosses the creek to our back 2 acres for access and mowing. The bridge is wide enough to get our 2 yazoo 76" wide mowers over without any problems. The bridge is made with concrete walls on both sides of the creek with a ledge in the top of the concrete to hold 3 - 6" steel I-Beams.

The I-beams are then covered with 2x6 pressure treated wood and the railing is 2x4 pressure treated set in steel brackets welded to the side of the I-beams.

The bridge is strong enough to hold our 1/2 ton chevy pickup, as I had to retrieve one of the mowers last year from the back property before we got our case DX33.

Steve