GAZEBO LAKE DOCK 2 DOCK BUILDING

[@lb7wade518]

Omg!! Brings back memories of driving T post at the farm!

[@DaleWHickman]

Yep, just a much bigger T post driver 💪🏼

[@treborsalvador9659]

Dale, there is a lot happening here with the old-school jetting, the Manta-Ray Anchors, and the cool low-profile trusses. I give you a strong A+ with this job, particularly you having to go "old school" to get it completed. I appreciate these informative video journals and I will keep coming by your reclamation yard to, one day, finally finish my projects!

[@willied5940]

I love handsetting. We use a drop hammer like that too in hard ground when the excavator isn’t on site. But we’re in the water to hold the toe down and walk the head up. Awesome videos though, I enjoy seeing other people do what we do.

[@Eddie-f6t]

Another mission impossible Project with a whole lot of Armstrong involved indeed !

[@DaleWHickman]

Thanks for watching. You’re exactly right a lot of manual labor. !

[@taylorbernard8497]

Thanks like the longer videos

[@DaleWHickman]

Glad you like them!

[@eddieosteen2134]

we do this work here in douglas ga pretty much the same way. have an old home built barge for the big boathouse pilons but usually we just man handle them if possible lol. might steal a few tricks here and there from your videos. ill throw a few yalls way if i see something that may help yall out.

[@DaleWHickman]

Thanks for watching in your comment. I appreciate that. Yes this is some hard work. When I started with my dad back in 79 he did not believe in Equipment. I was Emmanuel labor so I understand carrying and picking up the pilings. Once I started my business in 1990, I decided to work smarter!

[@eddieosteen2134]

@@DaleWHickman yeah it's a constant improvement and learning experiment on ideas to make things go more smooth and efficient. Don't seem like many people have that mindset

[@DaleWHickman]

@@eddieosteen2134 you are correct. They are a few and far between and when I find them, I hold onto them.

[@Kleiminc]

What a great job

[@DaleWHickman]

Thank you for watching my channel. I appreciate your comment.

[@floridalife4897]

does your company do excavate ? and does do floating dock ? Beautiful work

[@DaleWHickman]

We do some Escavating on our job sites, but not too many floating docks. It gets a little rough down here and it just tears them up. Thank you so much for your comment 😊

[@talkyork23]

Where did you get the large pole rammer?

[@DaleWHickman]

Thank you for watching my channel and your comment. That was my dad’s invention from the small post Driver just a larger version that we made. He calls it tad more when we need to Piling to go down just a tad more. 😄

[@talkyork23]

@@DaleWHickman I love it. I reached out to a local welder to see if he can make me one.

[@garethkalber7236]

Hey dale another great informative video. I just bought a house on a canal in South Florida with a dock needing rebuilding so these videos have been so informative. As a GC the one thing I notice is you (or nobody else I see) braces the docks with x bracing or anything like that? Is that just simply because docks are not heavy enough to need them? Or another reason. I see everything is bolted together which obviously helps a lot but with the way everything is over engineered these days I’m surprised at the lack of bracing required. Also are you engineering each dock for permit approval or is there no need?

[@DaleWHickman]

Hey, sorry I skipped over your comment. I guess I’m overlooked it. Thanks for watching my channel and your question. We offer several styles of Docks including bracing and not including bracing it just depends on the budget we are working with. We do bolt everything. Back in the 70s, when I started with my dad, we would go and look at all of our docks after each hurricane to see what we could change to make them more sustainable to the heavy wave action. Also have an engineer that works closely with me and we came up with great ideas and our docks did real well after hurricane Salley that really got us very busy when people saw my docks still standing.

[@taylorbernard8497]

Like your videos

[@DaleWHickman]

😃

[@williamrickard6388]

I've never seen you anchor a deck down to the lake bed does that Lake freeze your trying to keep it down or does the mud eventually just reject the dock and poles everything tends to float up

[@DaleWHickman]

We had such hard clay here we could not get the Piling installed . I really needed heavy equipment and a barge which I could not get to this lake. So I wanted to make sure that the dock was tied down very well with the Manta Ray Anchors that I installed. Thanks fir you comment 😊