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Deploy Dock and Install Anchoring Poles

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It's so easy! How to Install and secure a simple floating Pond Dock

What happens here

The tractor pushes the completed dock into the water until it floats freely. The presenter then walks onto the floating dock, carrying the long aluminum anchoring poles. These poles have auger-style tips at one end and are designed to slide through the previously installed brackets. The auger tips are then screwed into the soft pond bed using a piece of rebar inserted through holes in the pole, providing a stable anchor without needing ropes or traditional piers. The poles' depth is adjusted as needed, and retainer pins are inserted to hold them in place.

Goal: The dock is pushed into the water and anchored using long aluminum poles with auger tips, driven into the pond bed for stability without ropes.

Tools and materials

  • FLOE Floating Dock
  • Rebar Rod
  • Retainer Pins
  • TYM T574 Tractor TYM

What they say

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for a very very long time and it won't rust that's what's up so let's go ahead and we'll set her down in there and start nudging it out into the water and then we'll bolt up the ramp [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign simple enough this thing is light enough to where we can just lift and position slide our pin into place there boost get that one started we'll go on the other side [Music] there's a little plate right here that goes over this pin to hold it in place keep it from slipping out and over time the dock will be moving up and down with the level of the water so there is potential for it to slide out [Applause] now we're ready to get the whole dock in the water and it couldn't happen any sooner my hat is soaking wet it's about 92 now toasty [Music] the benefit of the flow dock is it's super lightweight we're gonna shut the tractor down we're gonna take the poles out and show you how they install [Music] so when you order your dock your poll will be set to the depth that you tell them to set it at there's an auger that goes on the tip and then there's a nut and bolt kit that goes with the auger so you cannot put the auger on before you drop it down through the mounting bracket okay so you've got to be a little bit smart here I stuck a socket extension in here just to hold this up and be careful don't drop this because you get one chance right let's get her down here we'll lean on over the edge of the dock and get her installed all right that's it got to get that first bolt in then we can get our nut and our washer in place I'm gonna drop that sounded like spec to me up we go we'll lower our pole down to the mud and there she blows that's in the mud actually want to raise this up and I'm going to position the dock out just a little bit go back up a little out of the mud socket extension in there rotate the dock well not so far buddy pin out Anchors Away yeah nice we'll grab the next one we'll repeat this process first one's a little tougher than the second one slide it in the slot extension in place all right don't fall so we know what the auger looks like he'll feel the cameras a little unsteady I have a piece of rebar here and there are holes indexed throughout this Rod so as you go down you can exchange which hole you're going to use to turn this dock down in now we want it to be as stable as possible so I'm actually going to rock it this way and then jab it down in the mud so let's bring her back up okay there's that good Breeze and now drop okay…

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