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Old 02-24-2007, 08:58 AM   #5
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Default ...my two cents

Here's a thought and I'm hoping that someone with experience will comment. Use a floating dock, built with lumber and those large black plastic air chamber plastic floats, and it can be left in all year without the need for a water circulator.

Sure, it will get frozen in but it will not get damaged. Water expands in volume by ten percent when it turns to ice. A wood dock should survice because the expansion force is equal inside and out of the wood frame. As a floating dock, it has no vertical lake floor supports.

Anyone be doing this or seen it?
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