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Old 04-28-2014, 01:22 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Pricestavern View Post
...as long as you crank your dock up high enough! Lesson learned this year: make sure you pull the dock up high enough that the legs closest to shore are high enough to avoid the rising ice as the lake refills during the early spring. Ours was OK in the Fall, but didn't give it enough clearance to account for the high spring lake levels. We lost both shore-side dock legs (Thank You, Island Girl, for spotting it this weekend and letting us know!)
PricesTavern, As I too have an articulating dock.. My advice is to take the legs closest to the shore complete off the dock... I ran into the same problem a few years back..... ever since then the legs closest to the shore come off... yep its a few minutes more work... but overall the it is much more stress free wondering if I have the dock up high enough...
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