This week Mike has been testing the theory that it's easier to straighten a dock if you stand ON the water rather than IN the water. (The water is way over his head at the end of this dock.) The dock sits on a rock-filled crib that rests on a large "Volkswagen" sized rock. The crib and the dock have almost slipped off the large rock and need to be put back in place.
Mike has frozen an anchor post into the ice on the left and is using a "come along" to pull the dock to the east to a temporary post that sits on top of the base rock. The stick at the end of the dock shows how far the dock had slid.
Then he bolts the dock down to the post and starts to position a second temporary post - he still has to chip out the ice down to the rock and bolt the post into position. Hopefully, when we have water he can no longer walk on - the dock will be nice and straight and we can rebuild the support crib.
Nothing like a little exercise on a nice sunny day!
Good job Mike - that's the way, better than getting wet.
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