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.

Why not buy direct from the manufacturer? Our company has established delivery routes throughout Florida and South Georgia, BUT....we can ship anywhere you need it in the USA.

If you need just a bundle of lath 1/2" x 2" x 48" or 1/2" x 2" x 36", we can ship it to you via United Parcel Service. Our strapped bundles for that size are 50 pcs.

If you need more, we can ship via overland carriers and we get competitive rates from freight companies.

All you need to do is pick up the phone and call us toll free at 1-888-758-8610, and we can discuss your needs, your location or job site, and provide you with a quote that includes "delivery to your door".

Check out our web site for our standard variety sizes.

Our survey lath, grade stakes, and hubs are manufactured from kiln-dried, southern yellow pine. Our quality control process will make you and your field crews very happy. Our newest feature is precision cut points. We have gotten excellent feedback from our customers that are pleased that our "even" points help drive the stake in straight without twisting and breaking.

We want you to get "OUR POINTS" and we want to be your supplier for Survey Lath, Survey Stakes or Grade Stakes.

We have asked that question for years, longer than most of the current owners of stakes companies have been in business even though they will tell you they are the longest running stake company.  Stakemill has been located in Pinellas County since it first started cutting wood stakes in 1978, I have been sitting in the same office for 20 years and I am not even 40 years old yet.  We have acquired more stake companies in Florida than any one else, simply putting us at the front of this industry.  We are not located in the woods, nor do we have mobile homes located on our facility and we do not have Port-a-Potties, rather commercial facilities with paved parking lots.  Being in the same city since the late 80's, more and more surveyors, contractors, government agencies and lumber yards have turned to us as their only supplier for quality wood stakes.  Our prices have stayed the same for almost the last 3 years, before that time we were able to keep our prices the same for almost a 10 year period.  We have new customers tell us on a regular basis the other stake companies are just too expensive and do not offer a quality stake.  That is how we have kept the same customers for over 20 years.

Jonas Survey Stakes was founded by Buis Jonas, a true Florida pioneer and operated
in Branford, FL. Mr. Jonas was born in Levy County (Gulf Hammock) on January 18, 1909. In Feb. of 1930 he married Bessie and began his family and had eight children. Mr. Jonas was a jack-of-all-trades and worked hard at family farming, and struggled year after year in tobacco farming and dealing in turpentine cups.

In 1951, someone suggested that he “cut” some tobacco sticks.
Farmers would buy these wood sticks to cure out their tobacco crops.
That is how it all got started. His business cutting sticks for the tobacco farmers, got another farmer interested in the “sticks”. Soon the poultry farmers needed “chicken sticks” to build their cages for the chicken farms. To this day, Prime Stakes still gets orders from customers that Mr. Jonas had back then. The tobacco stick & chicken stick industry served his family and paid the bills until one day in 1958 a man can to visit. That man was with a company called Florida Power and told Mr.
Jonas that he was a surveyor. He said his company needed “stakes”. So Mr. Jonas and his wife Bessie cut 100 stakes for that surveyor from Florida Power. And that sale, that day started the survey stake business.

As his customer base grew, Buis Jonas made saws & machines that could handle the work, and revised and re-worked the machines. In 1969 he built a new shop and had 10 employees that cut survey stakes.

Jonas Survey landed large projects that built Florida. Jonas Survey stakes were bought and used for the construction of Cape Canaveral, and the Florida Turnpike. His biggest customers were civil engineering firms like Morehead
Engineering from 1970 to 1978, the State of Florida Road Works.

Soon to follow were customers that were the large developers like Deltona Corporation and International Paper. One of his largest jobs on the company’s books was with the Road Department of the State of Arkansas.

Jonas Survey Stakes served the growth industry in Florida. The customer base he developed is the customer base that Prime Stakes serves today.
Elva Jonas Ordway compiled his biography “Biography of Buis M. Jonas” in 1978, and it is a live interview recorded at Hildreth, in Suwannee County Florida and Mastered at Emmit Brooks Recording
Studio.

In March 2005, the Jonas Family was invited to Prime Stakes’ Grand Opening celebration of our new 14,000 sq.ft. facility in Trenton, FL.

We were proud that his daughter Glenda Jonas Sanford, granddaughter, M. Charlene Sanford and other family members were our honored guests. They gave Prime Stakes, Inc. a copy of this CD and a written copy of his biography. The Jonas family was amazed that two of our six production lines are equipment that Buis Jonas designed and built.

We at Prime Stakes are proud of this company’s history and legacy.

The Jonas family says that Mr. Buis Jonas would be very proud of what we have done with his business.