Showing posts with label Florida stake production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida stake production. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Interested in Saving Money on Survey Field Supplies? Let Us Show You How.

STAKEMILL wants to show you we move more Land Survey Accessories than the others and our prices reflect this.


Download our Price Comparison PDF and write in the prices from your current two suppliers, we are positive you will see our 2012 prices are lower than the majority of their current pricing.We also stock these items so you can walk in and pick these up at our Largo showroom located on the corner of US 19 N and 126th Ave.

Download Price Comparison Here

Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com

Interested in Saving Money on Survey Field Supplies? Let Us Show You How.

STAKEMILL wants to show you we move more Land Survey Accessories than the others and our prices reflect this.


Download our Price Comparison PDF and write in the prices from your current two suppliers, we are positive you will see our 2012 prices are lower than the majority of their current pricing.We also stock these items so you can walk in and pick these up at our Largo showroom located on the corner of US 19 N and 126th Ave.

Download Price Comparison Here

Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com

Thursday, June 28, 2012

International Shipments of Measuring and Survey InstrumentsInternational Shipments of Measuring and Survey Instruments

Stakemill has partnered with Bongo US (http://www.bongous.com/) to handle our international transactions and freight forwarding. This one step process assures the customer they will deal with the same company from start to finish. Bongo US has more competitive rates than other freight forwarding companies simply due to their volume of air shipments and they have the fastest delivery time from the fact they use air for the majority of their deliveries.

See their website while you are shopping on our website for more details

International Shipping Now Available!

We have partnered with Bongo International to service our customers Worldwide!

Bongo International provides our customers with their very own US address. Once you have a US address, you will be able to make purchases with us as well as other US-based online retailers. Bongo receives your purchases and logs them into their online system which you can use to view your items and consolidate them with multiple orders.

International customers can save up to 82% off typical international shipping rates by following these four easy steps:
  • Register with Bongo and receive a U.S. shipping address.
  • Enter the Bongo address as both your billing and shipping address.
  • Use the credit card that you have on file with Bongo as the payment method.
  • Once the order arrives at Bongo, log into your account to forward to your country.
  • If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Bongo through live chat or by e-mail. They will be glad to assist you.
Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com/

International Shipments of Measuring and Survey InstrumentsInternational Shipments of Measuring and Survey Instruments

Stakemill has partnered with Bongo US (http://www.bongous.com/) to handle our international transactions and freight forwarding. This one step process assures the customer they will deal with the same company from start to finish. Bongo US has more competitive rates than other freight forwarding companies simply due to their volume of air shipments and they have the fastest delivery time from the fact they use air for the majority of their deliveries.

See their website while you are shopping on our website for more details

International Shipping Now Available!

We have partnered with Bongo International to service our customers Worldwide!

Bongo International provides our customers with their very own US address. Once you have a US address, you will be able to make purchases with us as well as other US-based online retailers. Bongo receives your purchases and logs them into their online system which you can use to view your items and consolidate them with multiple orders.

International customers can save up to 82% off typical international shipping rates by following these four easy steps:
  • Register with Bongo and receive a U.S. shipping address.
  • Enter the Bongo address as both your billing and shipping address.
  • Use the credit card that you have on file with Bongo as the payment method.
  • Once the order arrives at Bongo, log into your account to forward to your country.
  • If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Bongo through live chat or by e-mail. They will be glad to assist you.
Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com/

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Central Florida Surveyors Turn To Stakemill As Their Supplier Closes Down

http://www.surveystakes.com/
August 2011 – Stakemill has seen again a stake supplier not make it in this slow economy. We had mentioned in an earlier post about their business model and how a few wisely positioned words could lead their customers astray. Stakemill has been cutting wood stakes since the mid 70′s and boy have things changed. We all are looking for newer methods, production equipment and streamlining the entire operation, but to base our business model on a short-lived product would be like building a business around the current number one song on the radio, short-lived.


Stakemill welcomes these Central Florida Land Surveyors, Road Builders, Government Agencies and Private Businesses that are in need of a quality stake at a competitive price from an established supplier. See our website for complete product details.



Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com

Wood Survey Stakes and Lath

Central Florida Surveyors Turn To Stakemill As Their Supplier Closes Down

http://www.surveystakes.com/
August 2011 – Stakemill has seen again a stake supplier not make it in this slow economy. We had mentioned in an earlier post about their business model and how a few wisely positioned words could lead their customers astray. Stakemill has been cutting wood stakes since the mid 70′s and boy have things changed. We all are looking for newer methods, production equipment and streamlining the entire operation, but to base our business model on a short-lived product would be like building a business around the current number one song on the radio, short-lived.


Stakemill welcomes these Central Florida Land Surveyors, Road Builders, Government Agencies and Private Businesses that are in need of a quality stake at a competitive price from an established supplier. See our website for complete product details.



Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com

Wood Survey Stakes and Lath

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Our Stakes Have A Better Grade Of Lumber – STAKEMILL

Order Survey Stakes here


 
Recently it has been brought to our attention a Florida stake producer claims to use a “better wood”, this information has been established in just a few years of operation over others with close to four decades of cutting experience. That has intrigued us, so we wanted to share with you information you can find easily on the net. Then we will give you our opinion after being in this business for over thirty some years.

 
Basically there are two ways to dry lumber once it has been cut down. The first and oldest way is to air dry and the second is to Kiln dry or heat the lumber. When you air dry lumber you must be experienced and have the proper moisture reading equipment, plus you are at the mercy of Mother Nature. When you heat-treat lumber you can then stamp the lumber so it is certified usable in the building industry, heat treating or kiln drying heats the wood to a set temperature for a set period of time decided by such organizations as the Southern Pine Timber Council assuring you get the same bug and disease free lumber every time. Air drying or Green Lumber will vary much like the talent at Open Mic Night at your local comedy club, sometimes you will like it sometimes you will not. When your business counts on stakes like most land surveyors, engineers and road builders do you want the same product every time, you can’t get one bundle that weighs 20 pounds and the next five weigh 30 pounds, those extra pounds mean water. That water leads to fungus, it gives bugs a home, when you store this wood in your office, inside garage or even your vehicle the last thing you want is bugs being introduced to your work environment or adding 100+ pounds to your vehicle that is already loaded down hindering your fuel economy.

 
Direct from Wikipedia – WOOD DRYING

Why Kiln Drying or Heat Treating Provides a Better Grade of Lumber

 
Kiln drying provides a means of overcoming the limitations imposed by erratic weather conditions. In kiln drying as in air drying, unsaturated air is used as the drying medium. Almost all commercial timbers of the world are dried in industrial kilns. A comparison of air drying, conventional kiln and solar drying is given below:

1.Timber can be dried to any desired low moisture content by conventional or solar kiln drying, but in air drying, moisture contents of less than 18% are difficult to attain for most locations.

 
2.The drying times are considerably less in conventional kiln drying than in solar kiln drying, followed by air drying.
  • 1.This means that if capital outlay is involved, this capital is just sitting there for a longer time when air drying is used. On the other hand, installing an industrial kiln, to say nothing of maintenance and operation, is expensive.
  • 2.In addition, wood that is being air-dried takes up space, which could also cost money.

3.In air drying, there is little control over the drying elements, so drying degrade cannot be controlled.

 
4.The temperatures employed in kiln drying typically kill all the fungi and insects in the wood if a maximum dry-bulb temperature of above 60 °C is used for the drying schedule. This is not guaranteed in air drying.

 
5.If air drying is done improperly (exposed to the sun), the rate of drying may be overly rapid in the dry summer months, causing cracking and splitting, and too slow during the cold winter months.

 
The significant advantages of conventional kiln drying include higher throughput and better control of the final moisture content. Conventional kiln and solar drying both enable wood to be dried to any moisture content regardless of weather conditions. For most large-scale drying operations solar and conventional kiln drying are more efficient than air drying.

 
Classification of timbers for drying

 
The timbers are classified as follows according to their ease of drying and their proneness to drying degrade:

 
1.Highly refractory woods: These woods are slow and difficult to dry if the final product is to be free from defects, particularly cracks and splits. Examples are heavy structural timbers with high density such as ironbark (Eucalyptus paniculata), blackbutt (E. pilularis), southern blue gum (E. globulus) and brush box (Lophostemon cofertus). They require considerable protection and care against rapid drying conditions for the best results (Bootle, 1994).

 
2.Moderately refractory woods: These timbers show a moderate tendency to crack and split during seasoning. They can be seasoned free from defects with moderately rapid drying conditions (i.e. a maximum dry-bulb temperature of 85 °C can be used). Examples are Sydney blue gum (E. saligna) and other timbers of medium density (Bootle, 1994), which are potentially suitable for furniture.

 
3.Non-refractory woods: These woods can be rapidly seasoned to be free from defects even by applying high temperatures (dry-bulb temperatures of more than 100 °C) in industrial kilns. If not dried rapidly, they may develop discolouration (blue stain) and mould on the surface. Examples are softwoods and low density timbers such as Pinus radiata.

 
Wood Drying Benefits

 
Drying, if carried out promptly after felling of trees, also protects timber against primary decay, fungal stain and attack by certain kinds of insects. Organisms, which cause decay and stain, generally cannot thrive in timber with a moisture content below 20%. Several, though not all, insect pests can live only in green timber. Dried wood is less susceptible to decay than green wood is above 20% moisture.

 
1.Dried timber is lighter, and the transportation and handling costs are reduced.

 
2.Dried timber is stronger than green timber in most strength properties.

 
3.Timbers for impregnation with preservatives have to be properly dried if proper penetration is to be accomplished, particularly in the case of oil-type preservatives.

 
4.In the field of chemical modification of wood and wood products, the material should be dried to a certain moisture content for the appropriate reactions to occur.

 
5.Dry wood works, machines, finishes and glues better than green timber. Paints and finishes last longer on dry timber.

 
6.The electrical and thermal insulation properties of wood are improved by drying.

 
What This Means For You

  
We are not saying you can't use air dried wood, just pointing out the benefits of our process of making stakes over a newcomer, should we rest on our laurels of being in the wood stake business for over 30 years?  Or should we remind you of all the stake producers that have come and gone?

As you will read in Wikipedia, air drying lumber takes lots of space and time. Take it from someone who has been there, sometimes you just have to cut the wood you have on hand, and when that wood is Green you get a rough finish, heavier product, possible insect infested material and it will warp! We purchase our lumber used to make stakes from the major mills throughout the southeast stakes like Georgia Pacific, Blue Lynx, International Paper, West Frasier and others, these mills are all members of the lumber association and follow the guidelines allowing their product to be used by the consumer. Ask any home center or lumber yard if they sell air-dried lumber.

 
Our lumber has a moisture content of 13 to 18%, mold grows at 20%, insects infest at those levels as well.

 
Having purchased more stake producing equipment and or companies than anyone else in the south east states we have seen every possible way of manufacturing wood stakes. We have also heard from these prior business owners what they knew adding to our years of knowledges. We have even hired owners of failed stake operations to work our production lines and have seen first hand what works and does not work in both lumber and production methods.

 

Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com

Our Stakes Have A Better Grade Of Lumber – STAKEMILL

Order Survey Stakes here


 
Recently it has been brought to our attention a Florida stake producer claims to use a “better wood”, this information has been established in just a few years of operation over others with close to four decades of cutting experience. That has intrigued us, so we wanted to share with you information you can find easily on the net. Then we will give you our opinion after being in this business for over thirty some years.

 
Basically there are two ways to dry lumber once it has been cut down. The first and oldest way is to air dry and the second is to Kiln dry or heat the lumber. When you air dry lumber you must be experienced and have the proper moisture reading equipment, plus you are at the mercy of Mother Nature. When you heat-treat lumber you can then stamp the lumber so it is certified usable in the building industry, heat treating or kiln drying heats the wood to a set temperature for a set period of time decided by such organizations as the Southern Pine Timber Council assuring you get the same bug and disease free lumber every time. Air drying or Green Lumber will vary much like the talent at Open Mic Night at your local comedy club, sometimes you will like it sometimes you will not. When your business counts on stakes like most land surveyors, engineers and road builders do you want the same product every time, you can’t get one bundle that weighs 20 pounds and the next five weigh 30 pounds, those extra pounds mean water. That water leads to fungus, it gives bugs a home, when you store this wood in your office, inside garage or even your vehicle the last thing you want is bugs being introduced to your work environment or adding 100+ pounds to your vehicle that is already loaded down hindering your fuel economy.

 
Direct from Wikipedia – WOOD DRYING

Why Kiln Drying or Heat Treating Provides a Better Grade of Lumber

 
Kiln drying provides a means of overcoming the limitations imposed by erratic weather conditions. In kiln drying as in air drying, unsaturated air is used as the drying medium. Almost all commercial timbers of the world are dried in industrial kilns. A comparison of air drying, conventional kiln and solar drying is given below:

1.Timber can be dried to any desired low moisture content by conventional or solar kiln drying, but in air drying, moisture contents of less than 18% are difficult to attain for most locations.

 
2.The drying times are considerably less in conventional kiln drying than in solar kiln drying, followed by air drying.
  • 1.This means that if capital outlay is involved, this capital is just sitting there for a longer time when air drying is used. On the other hand, installing an industrial kiln, to say nothing of maintenance and operation, is expensive.
  • 2.In addition, wood that is being air-dried takes up space, which could also cost money.

3.In air drying, there is little control over the drying elements, so drying degrade cannot be controlled.

 
4.The temperatures employed in kiln drying typically kill all the fungi and insects in the wood if a maximum dry-bulb temperature of above 60 °C is used for the drying schedule. This is not guaranteed in air drying.

 
5.If air drying is done improperly (exposed to the sun), the rate of drying may be overly rapid in the dry summer months, causing cracking and splitting, and too slow during the cold winter months.

 
The significant advantages of conventional kiln drying include higher throughput and better control of the final moisture content. Conventional kiln and solar drying both enable wood to be dried to any moisture content regardless of weather conditions. For most large-scale drying operations solar and conventional kiln drying are more efficient than air drying.

 
Classification of timbers for drying

 
The timbers are classified as follows according to their ease of drying and their proneness to drying degrade:

 
1.Highly refractory woods: These woods are slow and difficult to dry if the final product is to be free from defects, particularly cracks and splits. Examples are heavy structural timbers with high density such as ironbark (Eucalyptus paniculata), blackbutt (E. pilularis), southern blue gum (E. globulus) and brush box (Lophostemon cofertus). They require considerable protection and care against rapid drying conditions for the best results (Bootle, 1994).

 
2.Moderately refractory woods: These timbers show a moderate tendency to crack and split during seasoning. They can be seasoned free from defects with moderately rapid drying conditions (i.e. a maximum dry-bulb temperature of 85 °C can be used). Examples are Sydney blue gum (E. saligna) and other timbers of medium density (Bootle, 1994), which are potentially suitable for furniture.

 
3.Non-refractory woods: These woods can be rapidly seasoned to be free from defects even by applying high temperatures (dry-bulb temperatures of more than 100 °C) in industrial kilns. If not dried rapidly, they may develop discolouration (blue stain) and mould on the surface. Examples are softwoods and low density timbers such as Pinus radiata.

 
Wood Drying Benefits

 
Drying, if carried out promptly after felling of trees, also protects timber against primary decay, fungal stain and attack by certain kinds of insects. Organisms, which cause decay and stain, generally cannot thrive in timber with a moisture content below 20%. Several, though not all, insect pests can live only in green timber. Dried wood is less susceptible to decay than green wood is above 20% moisture.

 
1.Dried timber is lighter, and the transportation and handling costs are reduced.

 
2.Dried timber is stronger than green timber in most strength properties.

 
3.Timbers for impregnation with preservatives have to be properly dried if proper penetration is to be accomplished, particularly in the case of oil-type preservatives.

 
4.In the field of chemical modification of wood and wood products, the material should be dried to a certain moisture content for the appropriate reactions to occur.

 
5.Dry wood works, machines, finishes and glues better than green timber. Paints and finishes last longer on dry timber.

 
6.The electrical and thermal insulation properties of wood are improved by drying.

 
What This Means For You

  
We are not saying you can't use air dried wood, just pointing out the benefits of our process of making stakes over a newcomer, should we rest on our laurels of being in the wood stake business for over 30 years?  Or should we remind you of all the stake producers that have come and gone?

As you will read in Wikipedia, air drying lumber takes lots of space and time. Take it from someone who has been there, sometimes you just have to cut the wood you have on hand, and when that wood is Green you get a rough finish, heavier product, possible insect infested material and it will warp! We purchase our lumber used to make stakes from the major mills throughout the southeast stakes like Georgia Pacific, Blue Lynx, International Paper, West Frasier and others, these mills are all members of the lumber association and follow the guidelines allowing their product to be used by the consumer. Ask any home center or lumber yard if they sell air-dried lumber.

 
Our lumber has a moisture content of 13 to 18%, mold grows at 20%, insects infest at those levels as well.

 
Having purchased more stake producing equipment and or companies than anyone else in the south east states we have seen every possible way of manufacturing wood stakes. We have also heard from these prior business owners what they knew adding to our years of knowledges. We have even hired owners of failed stake operations to work our production lines and have seen first hand what works and does not work in both lumber and production methods.

 

Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Survey Stakes in Florida

Where are they now? Read our numerous entries about those in the past who have tried to produce wood survey stakes in Florida. Currently we are getting numerous calls from wholesalers wanting cheap stakes to resell to their customers supply yards, these are items that are low cost, heavy, carry little markup, require handeling equipment to move and only allow so much markup before they become priced out of the market, yet these suppliers will continue to scratch their head and try to talk yet another person into producing wood stakes for them without telling them their last three suppliers have gone belly up.

Where are they now?


We can name over a dozen stake companies that have come and gone in the last few years. Florida land surveyors have been burned too many times by companies promising to supply them with wood stakes and lath. Lets list a few of them below.
  1. Prime Stakes
  2. Gulf Coast Survey Supply
  3. Cheap Stakes
  4. The Stake Company
  5. Eagle Stakes
  6. Ruffs Saw and Tool
  7. Delray Stake
  8. Jonas Survey Stakes
  9. Southern Stake
  10. BG Stake Company
  11. Stakes-n-Stuff
  12. Florida Survey Supplies
  13. Quest of Orlando
  14. D and G Stake Company
  15. MacDonald Center
  16. B and E Stakes
  17. Goulad Stakes
Ask yourself this simple question
"Where was your stake supplier 5 or 10 years ago? Where will they be 15 years from now?"


Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com/

Survey Stakes in Florida

Where are they now? Read our numerous entries about those in the past who have tried to produce wood survey stakes in Florida. Currently we are getting numerous calls from wholesalers wanting cheap stakes to resell to their customers supply yards, these are items that are low cost, heavy, carry little markup, require handeling equipment to move and only allow so much markup before they become priced out of the market, yet these suppliers will continue to scratch their head and try to talk yet another person into producing wood stakes for them without telling them their last three suppliers have gone belly up.

Where are they now?


We can name over a dozen stake companies that have come and gone in the last few years. Florida land surveyors have been burned too many times by companies promising to supply them with wood stakes and lath. Lets list a few of them below.
  1. Prime Stakes
  2. Gulf Coast Survey Supply
  3. Cheap Stakes
  4. The Stake Company
  5. Eagle Stakes
  6. Ruffs Saw and Tool
  7. Delray Stake
  8. Jonas Survey Stakes
  9. Southern Stake
  10. BG Stake Company
  11. Stakes-n-Stuff
  12. Florida Survey Supplies
  13. Quest of Orlando
  14. D and G Stake Company
  15. MacDonald Center
  16. B and E Stakes
  17. Goulad Stakes
Ask yourself this simple question
"Where was your stake supplier 5 or 10 years ago? Where will they be 15 years from now?"


Shop online for Land Survey Supplies and GIS Receivers at Stakemill http://www.stakemill.com/

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Brooksville Wood Stake Customers Ask - got wood?


The summer of 2008 has been a wet one for Hernando County Surveyors and Contractors in need of a good reliable wood source. Right now everyone understands you take what business comes your way -if it's new business it is even better. A local sawmill in Brooksville has continually informed their customers they cut outside and can't work during the rainy weather, we just don't feel that is fair to do to your regular customers, survey stakes are not a seasonal business to us or to land surveyors, when they need their stakes they need their stakes. Stakemill also keeps a good inventory level on hand, some of the little guys cut as needed, we were their also. We want to remind everyone Stakemill is also a small business, but one that realizes to keep your customers you have to predict what inventory levels to keep on hand. Over the last 20 plus years we have learned more production ways to produce and ways that do not produce. In other posts we list the number of stake companines that have come and gone - well over a dozen, and that's just in the central part of Florida.
Stakemill is located in a commercial metal warehouse that allows us to work regardless of the weather, every location we have ever been in and every stake business we have purchased also was located in a commercial complex.
We can show you a few facilities that have no walls and are exposed to the elements and we can also show you numerous customers Stakemill supplies wood to that is within close proximity of these open wall saw mills.
Call us today - 727-538-0886

Brooksville Wood Stake Customers Ask - got wood?


The summer of 2008 has been a wet one for Hernando County Surveyors and Contractors in need of a good reliable wood source. Right now everyone understands you take what business comes your way -if it's new business it is even better. A local sawmill in Brooksville has continually informed their customers they cut outside and can't work during the rainy weather, we just don't feel that is fair to do to your regular customers, survey stakes are not a seasonal business to us or to land surveyors, when they need their stakes they need their stakes. Stakemill also keeps a good inventory level on hand, some of the little guys cut as needed, we were their also. We want to remind everyone Stakemill is also a small business, but one that realizes to keep your customers you have to predict what inventory levels to keep on hand. Over the last 20 plus years we have learned more production ways to produce and ways that do not produce. In other posts we list the number of stake companines that have come and gone - well over a dozen, and that's just in the central part of Florida.
Stakemill is located in a commercial metal warehouse that allows us to work regardless of the weather, every location we have ever been in and every stake business we have purchased also was located in a commercial complex.
We can show you a few facilities that have no walls and are exposed to the elements and we can also show you numerous customers Stakemill supplies wood to that is within close proximity of these open wall saw mills.
Call us today - 727-538-0886

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Stakemill delivers Survey Stakes to Ft Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs and Pt Charlotte customers

JUNE 2008 - The Recent closing of Gulf Coast Survey Supply leaves Ft Myers customers out in the cold once again. From late 2003, mid 2004 and again in late 2007 Ft Myers supplied surveyors and contractors received different quality stakes from Gulf Coast during those time periods. Those time periods also overlap when two other large stake producers went bust and most recently when thier fourth and final supplier was unable to provide for them due to poor performance. We can't empahise enough to land surveyors, road builders and contractors that need wood stakes, be sure to check out your suppliers in house manufacturing abilities.

STAKEMILL DELIVERS TO FT MYERS AREA EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY - delivery charges apply

Stakemill adds more Ft Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs & Pt Charlotte customers (Jan 2008 Blog by Stakemill)

Once more Ft Myers surveyors are in need of a reliable stake supplier. The Ft Myers supplier has left surveyors in the surrounding areas in 2003 when Delray pulled out and then a second time in 2004 when Component Systems pulled out. This Ft Myers supplier has actually hurt it's customers by never fully understanding they were never more than a reseller with no adequate supplier. They most likely never even toured the facilities operations that supplied them with their wood stakes giving them the knowledge of what was involved in stake production.
We welcome these new customers and want to reiterate the fact the Ft Myers supplier has told the surveyors they formerly delivered. With todays fuel prices, cost of delivery vehicles, fuel economy of said trucks and human resources to deliver the stakes, it will actually cost us more to service the area. We will do everything we can to deliver to the Ft Myers area at competitive prices with a quality wood survey stake as we have for the last 20 years.
See our complete line of
survey lath, 1x2 stakes and hubs, iron rods, concrete monuments and field supplies at Stakemill.com.

Stakemill delivers Survey Stakes to Ft Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs and Pt Charlotte customers

JUNE 2008 - The Recent closing of Gulf Coast Survey Supply leaves Ft Myers customers out in the cold once again. From late 2003, mid 2004 and again in late 2007 Ft Myers supplied surveyors and contractors received different quality stakes from Gulf Coast during those time periods. Those time periods also overlap when two other large stake producers went bust and most recently when thier fourth and final supplier was unable to provide for them due to poor performance. We can't empahise enough to land surveyors, road builders and contractors that need wood stakes, be sure to check out your suppliers in house manufacturing abilities.

STAKEMILL DELIVERS TO FT MYERS AREA EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY - delivery charges apply

Stakemill adds more Ft Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs & Pt Charlotte customers (Jan 2008 Blog by Stakemill)

Once more Ft Myers surveyors are in need of a reliable stake supplier. The Ft Myers supplier has left surveyors in the surrounding areas in 2003 when Delray pulled out and then a second time in 2004 when Component Systems pulled out. This Ft Myers supplier has actually hurt it's customers by never fully understanding they were never more than a reseller with no adequate supplier. They most likely never even toured the facilities operations that supplied them with their wood stakes giving them the knowledge of what was involved in stake production.
We welcome these new customers and want to reiterate the fact the Ft Myers supplier has told the surveyors they formerly delivered. With todays fuel prices, cost of delivery vehicles, fuel economy of said trucks and human resources to deliver the stakes, it will actually cost us more to service the area. We will do everything we can to deliver to the Ft Myers area at competitive prices with a quality wood survey stake as we have for the last 20 years.
See our complete line of
survey lath, 1x2 stakes and hubs, iron rods, concrete monuments and field supplies at Stakemill.com.