How To Install Your Badger Dock Badger Docks are made to be as user friendly as possible. Designed and constructed to accommodate the lake activity of your choice. Whether fishing, swimming, boating, tanning or just taking in the view our docks are made for the way you live. Six-foot Shoremate: Typically used as a transition piece to lessen the elevation change from shore to lake. Hinge point allows for two-foot high or two-foot low change in height from of dock to become a friendlier slope to travel up and down. Dock frames all are constructed using exclusive members (F& P channel) for additional strength. These members have additional leg length, which hides all welds down the frames and adds additional bend rating verse a square tube. Two foot spaced cross-members make the decks stiffer and have less bounce. Aluminum decking is coated with a slip resistenance surface cutting glare as well as reflecting heat. We weld all of our components, whether four- by-eight, four-by-sixteen or eight-by-eight into a completed section. By welding side frames to cross-members then welding the decking to both side frames and cross-members the frame is constructed as one unit for superior strength. Adjustable wheel kits have four standard sizes to accommodate varying lake depths. Short 24”- 42” Standard 41”- 61” Long 58”-78” Extra long 76”- 96” Please note these telescoping heights are all measured to the top of the dock to the bottom of the tire. Special lengths are available on request. Here are some rule of thumb ideas if you wanted to moor a boat: To adjust the height of your dock to moor a boat you would need to add between 16” & 18” to the water depth. If you were going to moor a pontoon boat you would need to add between 20” & 24” to water depth. In mooring your dock you really want to take into consideration the following: Whenever possible I want my dock height and boat height to be equal so as to make getting in and out as easy as possible. On large bodies of water I want to consider the wave action, which will act upon the dock, boat or pontoon I have moored. I do not want my dock so low that the normal wave action washes over my dock. I don’t want my boat damaged by having it lifted above or going below my dock. So the shape of your boat and the points where it will be touching or rubbing need to be considered. We strongly recommend boat bumpers for mooring to your dock on large bodies of water. On large bodies of water in many cases it is best to use a Boat Lift to isolate your boat or pontoon from wave action to prevent damage. Here are the reasons we are the best value in the dock business. Non slip aluminum surface, so no boards to take off, no nails to look out for, no mold and you don’t have to look for your decking because it floated away. All aluminum construction, so not heavy or clumsy, so no rusting or need of repainting, not adaptable to change. Maintenance safety, no flats, no post above the decking. Installation Ideas and Suggestions: To install your dock you will need these Tools: two half inch wrenches one five eight’s inch wrench one 1-1/8” socket. First time installation begins on the shore. Adjust dock heights as close as possible to the final height needed when in the water. Then start installation at the shore working your way out one section at a time. This first section has both a set of shore legs and a wheel kit. It is the only section with the additional legs. Adjustment of shore legs is done by loosening a thumb nut within a T slot. It is a slip-fit design, so caution should be taken so as not to loosen it so much it falls off. But if it does, just slide up the nut until you can align it with the bolt and start the bolt back in the nut. When installing a section, allow the tires time to fill with water before rolling out. This will keep them from acting like a bobber. Set the second section into the stainless steel clamps at the end of the first section. Continue out in this fashion until you have all your sections in. Once they are in position, site down the outside edge to see if the dock is in straight line. If not slip sections side to side until they aligned straight. Once aligned straight, place the one-half-inch bolts supplied through stainless steel clamp. These bolts stop the dock from jumping out of the holder. Make final height adjustments using a 1-1/8” socket from the top of the dock. Clockwise is down, Counter clockwise is up. If you have a section with an addition four- by-eight or eight-by-eight, the extra tire allows you to still install it in the same fashion as the other sections by acting as a counter weight for the additional weight. Manufactured by: Spooner Machine, Inc. 1100 Roundhouse Road Spooner, WI 54801 Phone: 715-635-3220 Toll Free: 1-888-552-0835