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I am looking to put a mooring in place for some fresh water aperatii. My father had used concrete awhile back and that has since degraded away along with the chain some 35 odd years ago.
The house sits on the NE side of a pond just beyond the foot hills of the White Mountains in Maine and sees some fairly high wind gusts. I'd like to at some point put in a swim raft and possibly tie off a 14-18' boat in the future.
So I am looking at ideas materials that would be needed that you may have had experience with. I like the idea of 5-6 semi truck brake drums chained up in a way that would embed and scoop through the mud. Using galvanized HD chain with a cross piece to hold each drum away from the mouth of the next.
What makes this nice is they are somewhat portable and can be fed onto the end of the chain one by one. Instead of trying to maneuver a heavy block.
I am not sure but I think those drums weigh close to 120lb's each. And would lose maybe 15% with buoyancy as opposed to concrete which loses upwards of 40% of its weight holding capabilities.
Thanks
The house sits on the NE side of a pond just beyond the foot hills of the White Mountains in Maine and sees some fairly high wind gusts. I'd like to at some point put in a swim raft and possibly tie off a 14-18' boat in the future.
So I am looking at ideas materials that would be needed that you may have had experience with. I like the idea of 5-6 semi truck brake drums chained up in a way that would embed and scoop through the mud. Using galvanized HD chain with a cross piece to hold each drum away from the mouth of the next.
What makes this nice is they are somewhat portable and can be fed onto the end of the chain one by one. Instead of trying to maneuver a heavy block.
I am not sure but I think those drums weigh close to 120lb's each. And would lose maybe 15% with buoyancy as opposed to concrete which loses upwards of 40% of its weight holding capabilities.
Thanks