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Originally Posted by thinkxingu
That's ROUGH. Would not having bubblers have helped in that scenario, or would the ice movement have done as much/more damage?
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Like a neighbor's dock, the pictured dock is on a
point of land; as a consequence, the neighbor's piling dock gets smashed every year. It does, however, get a near-instant repair by June.
Last season, their entire dock was afloat, but got tied to their shore before it became a boating hazard. It was in such good condition, I thought it was going to be used again—but FLL wasn't there in time to salvage it, so it got hauled off. That is, excepting one huge cross member which floated into Winter Harbor. That spar was repurposed in a repair to our own dock. (Pictures to follow).
In spite of bubblers/circulators, our dock gets a piling or two pushed out from under the "working" part of the dock—maybe twice every decade. A
Farm Jack is utilized to put things right. (
Pictures and still more dock repair links at this link).
Our piling dock is saved every spring by a next door neighbor who pulls his 30-foot dock totally out of the water. Because winter ice is tightly bound to the shoreline
between us, ice floes are limited in the damage they can do. However, at our location, a south wind—followed by a north wind—can create a 1-mile-wide battering ram.
