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fatlazyless · 04-22-2014, 06:35 AM

Apparently, the town has decided to close the Cattle Landing town dock due to it being a little bit topsie-turvy what with all three pylons having been ice-sheet and wind moved out of their correct vertical position.

Bright yellow safety tape and two M-DPW wood horses now block off the entrance, plus the steel staircase has been lifted up and away from the floating dock ....... but on the bright side, it looks like an easy fix to just re-position the three pylons and will probably get fixed asap-pdq in my humble opinion ..... wait and see?

So, let me see .... the old Cattle Landing dock was in-place for maybe 75-years and was a log timber and rock crib style construction ...... and going back to 1992 it was never closed to use due to ice damage......and this new floating dock which was constructed in 2012 is now closed ......and unlike the old dock.....boaters cannot easily use the outermost end as a drop-off /pick-up spot due to the pylon in that spot .... and it's the pylon design that unlike the old crib design got damaged by the ice. It sure seems like the old rock and timber dock was a more rugged design better able to stand up to wind driven ice than the existing floating dock which cost about 125 thousand dollars in 2012.

So knowing all this .... if the town could return to 2012 and redo the dock construction decision....would they go with another stone and timber crib dock similar to the old one ...... or go with a floating dock? As the saying goes....hindsight is always 20-20.

Driving down the six mile long Meredith Neck Rd is a drive down a road that is falling apart.....it is a State of NH road as opposed to a Town of Meredith road.....and the asphalt is falling apart with numerous cracks, bulges, cold patch repairs, and missing pieces of asphalt....and once you get to the Cattle Landing town dock.....the dock is closed due to ice damage due in large part to a crappy floating design.

Once upon a time....the road got maintained and the old dock was rugged enough to stand up to the ice-out movement....but not anymore.

04-22-2014, 06:35 AM	#9
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,799 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,026 Times in 746 Posts	...Cattle Landing dock closed to ice damage Apparently, the town has decided to close the Cattle Landing town dock due to it being a little bit topsie-turvy what with all three pylons having been ice-sheet and wind moved out of their correct vertical position. Bright yellow safety tape and two M-DPW wood horses now block off the entrance, plus the steel staircase has been lifted up and away from the floating dock ....... but on the bright side, it looks like an easy fix to just re-position the three pylons and will probably get fixed asap-pdq in my humble opinion ..... wait and see? So, let me see .... the old Cattle Landing dock was in-place for maybe 75-years and was a log timber and rock crib style construction ...... and going back to 1992 it was never closed to use due to ice damage......and this new floating dock which was constructed in 2012 is now closed ......and unlike the old dock.....boaters cannot easily use the outermost end as a drop-off /pick-up spot due to the pylon in that spot .... and it's the pylon design that unlike the old crib design got damaged by the ice. It sure seems like the old rock and timber dock was a more rugged design better able to stand up to wind driven ice than the existing floating dock which cost about 125 thousand dollars in 2012. So knowing all this .... if the town could return to 2012 and redo the dock construction decision....would they go with another stone and timber crib dock similar to the old one ...... or go with a floating dock? As the saying goes....hindsight is always 20-20. Driving down the six mile long Meredith Neck Rd is a drive down a road that is falling apart.....it is a State of NH road as opposed to a Town of Meredith road.....and the asphalt is falling apart with numerous cracks, bulges, cold patch repairs, and missing pieces of asphalt....and once you get to the Cattle Landing town dock.....the dock is closed due to ice damage due in large part to a crappy floating design. Once upon a time....the road got maintained and the old dock was rugged enough to stand up to the ice-out movement....but not anymore. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!