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I wanted 12" long stakes to anchor a large pair of metal egret statues in our yard. The male and female figures were 45" and 43" tall, respectively, with "bird legs" and thin metal toes, to look like the real birds. That makes them relatively unstable, and in need of some method to anchor them in place. They came with one metal anchor for each bird, which was much too short to be effective. These Pinnacle Mercantile stakes are long enough to hold the statues. I used 3 stakes for each foot, but as I had a pkg of 20, that was not a problem. I little mulch covered the feet and stakes, so the silver color of the stake versus the bronze color of the statue was not an visible. I could easily drive the stakes into the ground with a hammer, as they are made of heavy gauge metal and not at all easy to bend. I looked at the specs for a lot of garden stakes/staples/anchors on Amazon, and these looked like what I needed in terms of length and strength of material. Others appeared to be too short or too easily bent. And keep it in mind that the lower the gauge number for metal wires, the larger their diameter. So 9 gauge is thicker than a 12 or 14 gauge, for example. Seems counter intuitive, but that is the system.

Very happy with purchase. These are solid and do the job well!

I bought these for a large metal bird, over 36 inches tall, I purchased here on Amazon. The original stakes were not heavy or strong enough to hold up the bird to regular wind. I put these in the ground to hold up the bird, and then late last night we had a severe storm, so these were tested against that storm. My bird stood up big and proud against heavy winds. The stakes worked quite well. They are long and very hard to bend, which is what I wanted. They dug deep into the garden soil and held my bird securely. I did not need all 12 stakes, so I am giving about half to a friend who also has something in his flowerbed that needs sturdiness. It will fill the bill as well for him. I am pleased with these stakes.

Work well. Bought to pin down a 'dig fence' we're putting around our backyard to keep our two new adult rescue-lab/hound "diggers" in. Our soil layers are of topsoil, then soil w/natural rock bits for about 2" then clay. With the amount of force the guys were putting into hammering the lawn staples in, the 9 gauge staples would bend if a rock was encountered. They were tough to get out if the rock was in the clay layer. Some of the staples were bent too badly to reuse: of 180 - 12 were discarded. The length is a big plus for us. Its supposed to rain this week - we'll see if they rise up with softened soilThe dig fence is a wrap of 2x4" 14 gauge wire mesh stapled to the lower portion of our wooden privacy fence, pushed in to hug the lower fence section & extending across the ground 2 feet. We're using these long pins at the 'L' and in a V pattern at the edges & midpoint on the ground.

I used a rubber mallet to pound in the stakes. They bent when pounded into hard ground or hit a rock. But they do what they are intended for, to hold down a small chicken/rabbit coop.