Nail stakes are primarily used to secure wood or metal forms to the ground in all flatwork applications. Additionally, they are commonly used for attaching screed bar holder clamps in flatwork finishing, securing landscape timbers, surveying stakes, string line guides, securing metal forms with pockets, and securing wood forming for flatwork.
Applications
dee's nail stakes are primarily used to secure wood or metal forms for concrete placement jobs including patios, sidewalks, driveways, foundations, pool curbs, intersections, bridge approaches, highway entrance and exit ramps, airport runways, roadways and taper pours for ramps.
dee's nail stakes are very versatile products and many uses outside concrete forming and concrete placement especially in the area of landscaping and lawn and garden uses.
Features and benefits
dee cold-rolled steel nail stakes:
- Come with 12 spirally arranged nailing holes one inch on center, giving each stake 24 prelocated nail entry points making the stakes easy and fast to use.
- Always provide at least one nail hole that will allow you to firmly anchor the stake to the form board no matter how the dee stake rotates or angles saving time and money.
- Keep the nail in place during alignment due to the nail holes, leaving both hands free to bring the form board to the line and hammer the nail.
- Have an average life 2 to 3 times that of competitors' hot rolled stakes providing a better value and a safer product to use.
- Eliminate splitting, twisting and splintering improving worker safety and eliminating lost labor time.
- Require only one nail per stake practically eliminating form board damage and increasing productivity.
- Are so strong, they can be used in place of 1" hot rolled paving form stakes
- 24" dee Nail Stakes will pay for itself in five uses or less
- Eliminate wood waste cleanup and expense from both broken stake boards and wood form boards saving time and money.
- Are manufactured with a chamfered ring machined in around the stake top to prevent peening and increasing stake life.
