Stakes on line

Brad Ott, post: 448211, member: 197 wrote: Where do you buy your small order survey stakes on line?

First GPS, then robotics, and now you can apparently buy stakes that are already on line. We truly live in the best of all possible worlds.

Brad Ott, post: 448211, member: 197 wrote: Where do you buy your small order survey stakes on line?

http://www.surveyorsmaterials.com/

Wow! Two ways of reading that post title. I thought we were going have a big ole debate on stakes or points on a line using robotic total stations/gps and not actually occupying lines anymore. Another day :). Jp

Mostly just go to a local mill or lumber yard when I need them. I'd think online with shipping would cost too much and be too much of a pain.

I think you mean online.....not on line.

And, I've been labeled a troublemaker................

I use the same laths on many different land survey and until they become too unstable to drive into the ground and they last a very long time.
I will saw off the splintered ends and continue to use them until they become too short.
There is a good survey shop in Longview, Texas that I will drive the distance when I need good stakes.
One shop is half the distance, their stakes are made from low grade cuts of lumber and the fail percentage of the knotty stakes is too much to consider using them.
For a few years, finding stakes locally was non existent and I would make a couple hours one way long haul trip to get them at the cheapest price.

Folks around here have been getting stakes (plus pipe, rebar, and precast monuments) from the same family business for over sixty years now.

http://shafferstakes.com/301.html

A Harris, post: 448270, member: 81 wrote: I use the same laths on many different land survey and until they become too unstable to drive into the ground and they last a very long time.
I will saw off the splintered ends and continue to use them until they become too short.
There is a good survey shop in Longview, Texas that I will drive the distance when I need good stakes.
One shop is half the distance, their stakes are made from low grade cuts of lumber and the fail percentage of the knotty stakes is too much to consider using them.
For a few years, finding stakes locally was non existent and I would make a couple hours one way long haul trip to get them at the cheapest price.

And my guys got mad at me when I said stop using all the 4 ft and use 3 ft lath. They are gonna be really mad when I tell them to reuse and cut new tips. If only they didn't write like 3 year olds on them I'd make them reuse them but you can't even read them half the time.

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Only land surveying going on here and I never write anything on lath.

I prefer the 1x1x48 that are really 3/4 maybe and near 48.

My calculations are that they are about $1 each after travel of getting them to the office, carrying them around and around and storing and recycling them until they need to be replaced.

They are used to quickly find hubs and monuments and are retrieved from hubs at the end of jobs and at monuments replaced by tpost and tpost are set along boundaries, no lath left on the job after completed.

Careful hammer in the ground to keep from splitting the top and smashing the point and they can be used many times.

For 30+yrs I have been using a 3/4in piece of steel square tubing that is used to make a guide hole in asphalt, oiled, hard clay and other such materials.

It gets the rolled edges ground off when they get sharp and ragged and dangerous, starting out at 48in it is probably down to 42in.

75% last until they can no longer be used and 25% of them only need 1 to 2 inches cut off each end to make them solid again after using in rocky ground.

Your guys, the crew, helpers - they will burn them in the winter to keep warm and not think twice about loading more up tomorrow and do the same.

Jp7191, post: 448234, member: 1617 wrote: Wow! Two ways of reading that post title. :). Jp

Ya I know what you mean. Three ways, actually:

http://www.omahasteaks.com/shop/

🙂

rfc, post: 449903, member: 8882 wrote: Three ways, actually:

Only if you want to anger the spelling police. 🙂

Brad Ott, post: 448211, member: 197 wrote: Where do you buy your small order survey stakes on line?

Google Quickstakes. A box of 100 costs about $25.