One Person Removal
It really is this simple.

Two deck panels are removed from the aluminum frame that is about to be taken out of the water, and taken to shore. Then the next deck panel is drawn back four to five inches. This allows access to the connecting hooks while still providing support for the next operation.
Remove The Panels

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With some piers it’s necessary to lift up the leg end of the section being removed in order to disconnect that section from the rest of the pier. Not so with Pier of d’Nort. Disconnecting one of our sections from another takes one finger. The connecting hooks are just held in place by gravity. Flip them up and off the bar and the sections are disconnected. This patented connection scheme is ONLY available in Pier of d’Nort docks.
Undo The Hooks

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The frame being removed needs to be pushed 3/4″ forward before it can be lifted as shown (a safety feature).
Nudge Forward Slightly

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This end of the pier weighs a pittance, and provides for great leverage in tilting the footpads to the best angle for the next part of the operation – which is to drag the footpads (the pier) toward shore. It’s what the footpads were designed for.
Lift and Pull

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See how easy it is in the video below.
Will the footpads really come out? What about the suction?
Massive suction makes lifting footpads straight up out of the bottom an annual back-breaking chore. Pier of d’Nort has broken that tradition with footpads designed from the getgo to slide out of the bottom like skis. It’s like cutting butter verses trying to push a knife through sideways. The ski-like pads are welded to the legs at a 5 degree angle. That makes sense anyway since that’s the natural slope of your bottom. When you lift up the shore-end of your section, it not only angles the footpads more ideally, but it also begins to soften the substrate. The footpads really do pull out with minimal resistance. Best of all, they have no moving parts. Wheels in this case are way overkill.