Build a Floating Dock DIY- How to build with barrels 

Nice dock and nice video. I especially appreciate a video that is short, well composed, and not purposefully inflated with unnecessary extra 5 minutes. Sending this one to my dad for this weekends project!

This is the best video yet! That's exactly what I'll be doing for a fishing raft. Mine will be 4' X 8' for the same reason... Using dimensional lumber w/ minimal cutting. My deck will be marine plywood w/ outdoor carpeting.

I've been a residential carpenter my entire life and really enjoy it. I mean, I loved my job. Building is so fun to me, and I made a decent living at it. I got very impressed watching a woman frame this floating dock. You rock gal! I cannot frame houses anymore, due to being paralyzed, but I still build a lot of stuff. From decks to birdhouses, to muzzle loaders and muzzle loader accoutrements. Is not building just really fun and rewarding there gal?

Thanks so much for the video! We did this today for our (small, freshwater) pond and it's awesome. Me (handsome athletic stud) and my son (14 skinny disaffected) managed the whole project. We built the frame and dragged half of it into the pond, got the barrels in / under, and started laying decking down. Then pushed the rest into the pond and - with an extra barrel for flotation, got the other barrels in there. I HAVE NO IDEA how anyone could build this on the ground and then push it into the water without an army ... The lumber weighs a ton, but the $10 barrels we found online from a (literal) crackhead work like a champ ... My truck was riding Low-Low on the way home from the lumber store ... crazy. All said and done, once you have the materials, this is actually a 4 (four) hour project. Sooooo cool! We have many more "Pond-Days" in our future - many thanks!

Nice editing! I love the way you interweave friends and family into your build stories!

Wow, your space and life are beautiful. Enjoy it and appreciate it.

Important to use screws,not nails. As a youngster we built a diving platform. The wave action and stress of use by groups of us would cause nail heads to work their way above the surface. These cause quite a bit of injury to your wet feet, tearing holes in the bottoms. Having no screws back then we just hammered them back down again often and roughed it.

Awesome work Denika! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

Great workmanship. Well done.

Well done. You're the only one who showed us how you tied them in

Very nice! I found this video while searching how to build a small pontoon bridge. Same idea, just different dimensions. I almost have to do everything by myself, so have learned a little about moving heavy things. Having a few harbor freight dollies around, or temporarily addding wheels to the item, can be a back saver.

Great pier! It can be used as a raft for a mini dredger to clean the lake from mud. To do this, you need a motor pump for dirty water and a suction nozzle Bagermaster

Nice job on the dock and keeping it simple and easy. One thing I’d suggest based off my dock experience is to rotate the barrels so the bung openings are parallel to the water to avoid any possible filling of them. I also used plumbers tape to seal the bungs. Huh huh yes I said bung. 😂

I have built a dock and a couple rafts with 55 gallon plastic drums. I learned some things, the hard way. You want to seal the drums in the middle of your temperature difference. For MN sealing the drums at 30 degrees works good. The first dock sections I sealed the drums at warmer temperatures and in the winter they caved in some, so I drilled a small hole in one cap above the waterline, but somehow they still can fill with water. So seal in cooler temps. You can't have too much floatation. My first dock / raft had drums has 12sf per barrel, my last has near solid drums at 6.55sf per barrel. There is no such thing as too many drums.

Wonderful !! Thank you very much dear. I'm really like this kind of videos.

i live in jamaica next to a river and i built one by watching you lol thanks

SIMPLE AND IT WORKS GREAT‼️👍👍 Vinny 🇺🇸

Amazing! You're very creative and very handy with tools. I like seeing that in a woman. 😉👍

Very cool project!

Beautiful timber work and very creative. Png.

Excellent video - thank you.

Bad ass build! Great job

Very use full video tnxx 😍😍😘😘iam from kerala 🙂🙂

Seen one of them out in Louisiana while fishing.. It had a motor on it!! It was pretty cool lol

Maybe a pool ladder to help get on, add a cooler and umbrella and you got a party. Nice project!

Liked and subscribed! then Subscribed then liked! Build is simple yet functional. Instructions are easy to follow.

You are so wonderful and well done, keep going 🌹

If you swap the word "dock" for the word "raft" you'll have a more accurate description of what you just built. Great job. We had one when i eat a kid at a lake house in Michigan. A LONG time ago when the barrels were metal. Yes metal. We enjoyed that raft for years and years.

Nice build!

Muito prático a montagem deste batelao achei o máximo

All your works so beautiful,

lovely lady and lovely dock!!

Simple wonderful idea 👍

Brilliant idea.

Wow nice job! Your beautiful too

Que ideia maravilhosa ! Além de tudo , essa mulher é muito inteligente . (Belém - pará - Brasil)

um this was dope tastic thanks for the imfotainment!!!

Friggin awesome 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

id of left a little gap between your deck boards just so the rain falls threw .and also uness it was womenized wood id of stained it or painted to look good and last thing id of put a bevel on all corners and edges of wood so when climbing on and off it ..no slivers or cuts on edges .no sharp edges . but over all good job .i made one with steel drums and used cable instead of rope and put connectors on inside of drums like you did ..good job .

Wonderful video, thank you. I'd be curious to know how much a 10 x 10 deck like this would weigh? Seems like almost a pontoon boat, but with the barrels spread out as you have them, using this as a boat is kind of problematic because it could be too wobbly. Alas it's best as you have it; a floating dock!

Hi! This video is great, thank you! I am looking to build a tiny dock just to put 2 chairs on to fish off. Could I get away with 4 barrels (2 on each side touching circle parts) or do you think I need a different floatation device? Also would it be compromised if I added rails?

looks fantastic! :D

Nice, very good, congrats.

Great job👍

Hey. ... Thanks for the design. But WOW. How heavy was yours. I used what you used and had to use a 100ft strap to flip it. 3ppl couldn't budge it..

So nice DIY

*Powerful woman, I like it!*

One year later you can buy a decent house boat for the price of the wood in this dock

Excelente idéia...parabéns.

Beautiful

great job

Hello! Awesome video thanks :) just wondering where you got the dock rope?

Nice work sis

You are so clever!!!.

Very nice and fun. Do you use treated timber? As I add up the costs of the materials its looking like a very expensive project. Here in Australia the cost of the project works out at around US$850+ .... hmmm.. probably best to salvage the materials as cheaply as possible.

Excellent video.

What's the max amount of people you have had on it? Does the weight have to be balanced on it or does it stay fairly level?

For stability you need to fill up almost half gallon water in each plastic barrel and good idea to add some more plastic gallon.

Nice video well done in short time

Nice N Easy.... love it... Subbed too. you should do a review of how its holding up, would love to see that. Am planing on building similar thing for salt water use.

Legal Este flutuante. Da pra se divertir .Legal. Nos quando éramos adolescentes. Fazíamos de bananeiras..pra brincar nos rios e lagoas. Aqui no Brasil. .

would it be better to put the deck boards on after you've got it on the water? Or do you need to put the deck boards on first so as to keep the tops of the barrels low enough?

Great video

Great job

Es ist sehr gut gemacht,super 👍👍

Nice project

Просто замечательно, хоть купаться, хоть рыбачить, здорово и не дорого.👍👍👍👍👍😊🤗

Hello congratulations on your project and also share with interested people.What kind of wood did you use for this project?

Thank you so much for an awesome DIY video. You make it look so easy. You’ve given me the inspiration to build a floating dock this weekend at my friend’s cottage following your exact plan except, I’m planning for 3 barrels on either side to a total of 6. I’m a little confused as to why you cut 2 of the joists at 117 inches to arrive at an exact square of 10’ x 10’ since the boards have a 2” thickness. Also, now that you’ve been enjoying your dock for some time, do you recommend any changes to your plan that I should incorporate? 🙏

Great video, thanks alot! Also, do you really need 11 2x8s like the materials list says? It looks like 9 would do it.

Boa noite meus parabéns ótimo trabalho ganhou um escritor !!!!

nice simple and to the point explanation..how rare that is to find nowadays looks like an easy project too...nice video

Thanks going to build one

Amazing guys

Mulher valente. Parabéns pelo trabalho

This video is relaxing when can i get more videos of you building exciting things?

Mantan broo jos pokoknya

Nice Someday will try

very nice

girls doing woodwork keep it up

Good work 👍👍

Hi, how has this dock held up over the years? Have the barrels pushed the top deck boards up?

Parabéns bela iniciativa!!

Me.Gusto Felicito la Inteligencia de Quien lo hizo. Muy bueno para divertirse y mover algo en la baslsa.

Good idea

Do the barrles " suck in" during winter months ? Ive read that the temp differences in summer/ winter cause the barrels to suck inwards in cold weather and that it is ideal to drill a small hole at top of barrel to stop this .

👍👍👍👍 Wonderful and elaborate work from a soft lady Greetings from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

thanks! took me forever to find this for a floating bridge i have to make

Good work 💪

Awesome, thanks!!!

Built this dock turned out great only thing was it was hard to see how the barrels were tied underneath

How much weight can each barrel support? Curious about barrel sizes (smaller)

Que baixinha inteligente!!! Parabéns kkkkkk

Nice work there. Will have to go check out your playlist. Maybe .... push subscribe. Keep up the good work.

That’s so cool

hi nice idea

Gracias y ánimos...

Cool video. Were can I buy the barrels?

Parabens ficou top 👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷

Helloooo! here in Brazil it's already night, so good night !!! I wonder what was the wood used in this project ?! thank you