Steel Dog Footing Brackets are amazingly strong, lightweight steel brackets that slip over standard lumber planks to instantly set and hold them at the correct spacing. Re-useable hundreds of times. Available in standard sizes from 16" to 30", the Footing Brackets can completely or partially (depending on your footing technique) eliminate the use of stakes, strapping, and other means to hold footing planks in position. And since they do not require nailing, set-up and stripping can be twice as fast as other methods.