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Relocate Dock with Tractor

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

What happens here

The presenter uses a TYM T574 tractor with front-end pallet forks to lift and relocate the FLOE floating dock. The dock is carefully picked up from its initial position, carried across the pond dam, and placed at the chosen spot along the bank. Emphasis is placed on using the tractor's quick-attach loader system and the pallet forks to avoid puncturing the dock's floats during transport. The process requires precise control of the tractor to maneuver the large dock section.

Goal: The dock is moved from its initial position to the desired bank location using a tractor equipped with pallet forks, requiring careful maneuvering to avoid damage.

Tools and materials

  • FLOE Floating Dock
  • Pallet Forks
  • TYM T574 Tractor TYM

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going to install the dock somewhere between this point and this point we have anchors on the dock and I'll show you those so on the end of the dock and this will all make sense to you will be two brackets those two brackets will hold these two posts these two posts will go down in the water and anchor this dock so there'll be no ropes coming off the dock and you don't have to Anchor the ramp system to the ground you just anchor the dock to the mud and muck down in the pond now this Pond is approximately seven feet deep out in the Middle where our Dock's going to be installed so we might have to move things around just a little bit to figure out the best possible place to install this dock it may be that we need to move it over here I'm just not positive guys so let's go ahead we'll hook the tractor to it pull it out we'll install all the bracketry and show you how that works and we'll show you how the anchor system works it's really really cool very well thought out here's a problem see that that's muskrat muskrat has dug back into my Pawn Dam and right down there is causing the pond dam to leak this is the reason we can't have muskrats in the pond we've got muskrats in this Pond and we've got muskrats in the pond that we installed the dock in yesterday bummer I have to get on this and I'm gonna have to use this dock as a hunting platform I do believe so we got to get this dock back out and I'm just going to take the front end of the tractor and the quick attach on the front and lift this up and drag it back out we'll put it about right here in a level spot and then we'll get busy installing all the hardware super simple guys this should only take me about 35 minutes we're gonna drop the pallet Forks that's what we'll use to tote the dock across the dam we're going to use these little quick connects on the front of the loader to hook in and pick that dock up so let's get in here this is a tymt 574 tractor fire this Critter up get this air condition going that's what it means it attaches quickly now we're unhooked from our pallet port we got Parts flying off show butt back over here uh oh where'd it go we gotta be able to find that without getting bit by something oh man it's a good thing we got extra parts you can learn a lot from a dummy it's just slid right down the dock

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