Stakemill Welcomes Prime Stakes Customers

Stakemill is happy to provide wood stakes, iron rods and concrete monuments to those of you who have been unable to get a return phone call or email from Prime Stakes out of Lake City Florida. Stakemill once again wants to remind everyone that we have seen dozens of stake suppliers start-up and close more times than we see stake suppliers continue their operation. Rather than repeat ourselves and ask you to go with an established supplier or stay away from locations run in far, far away locations or those run next to mobile homes, we will list a few obvious points those failed business ignored. It simply takes far away locations too long to reach their customer base by vehicle, and those who reside where they work may eventually be zoned out of business or have nothing at stake and can walk away with little consequence and finally most do not know how expensive it is to operate a stake operation. We have always been located in a modern warehouse facility located in business parks allowing us to operate as other properly run business do. We do not share our water and electric bill with our residence, we do not have dirt parking lots nor do we have portable toilets in our parking lot. Consider these facts next time you accept a job that requires a supplier you will need for the entire job, you would not hire employees that could just disappear and you would not buy equipment that only worked when it wanted to, so do the same with your wood stakes, choose STAKEMILL.

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

Stakemill Welcomes Prime Stakes Customers

Stakemill is happy to provide wood stakes, iron rods and concrete monuments to those of you who have been unable to get a return phone call or email from Prime Stakes out of Lake City Florida. Stakemill once again wants to remind everyone that we have seen dozens of stake suppliers start-up and close more times than we see stake suppliers continue their operation. Rather than repeat ourselves and ask you to go with an established supplier or stay away from locations run in far, far away locations or those run next to mobile homes, we will list a few obvious points those failed business ignored. It simply takes far away locations too long to reach their customer base by vehicle, and those who reside where they work may eventually be zoned out of business or have nothing at stake and can walk away with little consequence and finally most do not know how expensive it is to operate a stake operation. We have always been located in a modern warehouse facility located in business parks allowing us to operate as other properly run business do. We do not share our water and electric bill with our residence, we do not have dirt parking lots nor do we have portable toilets in our parking lot. Consider these facts next time you accept a job that requires a supplier you will need for the entire job, you would not hire employees that could just disappear and you would not buy equipment that only worked when it wanted to, so do the same with your wood stakes, choose STAKEMILL.

Our Blog Entries

Brooksville August 2008 Stake Supplier Gets Rained Out

Ft Myers Supplier Doesn't Measure Up

Stakemill Purchases Failed Marion County Stake Company From Auction

16 Names and Growing



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

Brooksville Wood Stake Customers Ask - got wood?

got stakes?

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?

got stakes?

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

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.

Delivering Survey Stakes in Florida

It has been 30 years since Stakemill started in Largo Florida to supply land surveyors with a quality stake. Quite a bit has changed since then, no one pulls a chain any more, data collectors have WiFi and Bluetooth, surveyors are just as accurate as when they were done with just a level, of course you can survey much faster now. One thing that still remains the same is that Stakemill has maintained more of its core customer base than most other stake companies claiming to be the oldest or one of the longest established. One hard hitting fact of 2008 is the diesel prices reaching over $4.40 a gallon, just five years ago they were under a buck fifty. Lumber is a commodity and diesel fuel is needed to log the lumber, truck the lumber to the mill and truck it both to our production facility and back out to our customer. What does this mean to the surveyor and contractor? Be sure to use a centraly located producer of wood stakes, we can reach more major markets in two to three hours than any other producer that claims to have been established as long as Stakemill has.

We have mentioned this before, and seen it recently hit the Ft Myers market and are also seeing it start to take place in a market just north of us. What is it you ask? The drive time it takes to get to customers from the mill cannot exceed more than half the work day, truck drivers by law can only be on the road for a select amount of hours per day, so how can a supplier near the pan handle cater to customers below the Skyway bridge or near Orlando? They simply cannot do this efficiently and without passing the costs onto the customer. We maintain a fleet of newer diesel trucks that unfortunately only get single digit fuel economy and have adhered to a very effective delivery schedule around the state of Florida. For those outside of our delivery area or those in need we can arrange lift gate service with UPS or FedEx delivery services for additional costs. We have also implemented most markets to having two different days a week for delivery service, but we do ask customers take an amount that will hold them for at least a 2 week time period.

Will the delivery truck of the future be a small electric vehicle? Only time will tell, but Stakemill plans on being your preferred supplier of today and of tomorrow.

Delivering Survey Stakes in Florida

It has been 30 years since Stakemill started in Largo Florida to supply land surveyors with a quality stake. Quite a bit has changed since then, no one pulls a chain any more, data collectors have WiFi and Bluetooth, surveyors are just as accurate as when they were done with just a level, of course you can survey much faster now. One thing that still remains the same is that Stakemill has maintained more of its core customer base than most other stake companies claiming to be the oldest or one of the longest established. One hard hitting fact of 2008 is the diesel prices reaching over $4.40 a gallon, just five years ago they were under a buck fifty. Lumber is a commodity and diesel fuel is needed to log the lumber, truck the lumber to the mill and truck it both to our production facility and back out to our customer. What does this mean to the surveyor and contractor? Be sure to use a centraly located producer of wood stakes, we can reach more major markets in two to three hours than any other producer that claims to have been established as long as Stakemill has.

We have mentioned this before, and seen it recently hit the Ft Myers market and are also seeing it start to take place in a market just north of us. What is it you ask? The drive time it takes to get to customers from the mill cannot exceed more than half the work day, truck drivers by law can only be on the road for a select amount of hours per day, so how can a supplier near the pan handle cater to customers below the Skyway bridge or near Orlando? They simply cannot do this efficiently and without passing the costs onto the customer. We maintain a fleet of newer diesel trucks that unfortunately only get single digit fuel economy and have adhered to a very effective delivery schedule around the state of Florida. For those outside of our delivery area or those in need we can arrange lift gate service with UPS or FedEx delivery services for additional costs. We have also implemented most markets to having two different days a week for delivery service, but we do ask customers take an amount that will hold them for at least a 2 week time period.

Will the delivery truck of the future be a small electric vehicle? Only time will tell, but Stakemill plans on being your preferred supplier of today and of tomorrow.