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That was a great read....if you asked me the same two years ago I would have laughed at my comment.

As a matter of interest I have rock pegs for all my guy ropes but still use standards for my pin to pole is that the only option as I find rock pegs are a bit heavy for that job.

Reggiewac - from someone very new with very little knowledge of camping ( 4 times about 20 years ago), a great article.  Makes choosing pegs so much easier now rather than just staring at them with a confused expression stuck on my face!

Quote: Originally posted by reggiewac on 21/6/2011

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youlbury - That's a very topical question as it happens! I've been using standard pegs that I've collected over the years for the pin-ring and chucking them in the recycling as and when they bent. I agree that rock pegs are a bit OTT for that job and they are also a right pain to get out when vertical.

Today I ordered some traditional hook pegs from the same guy who makes the Deltas.

7th photo from the top

Hopefully being made of 5mm stainless steel they should last much longer than the standard ones.

From the photos it looks like they are made from the same bar as his peg pullers, which are substantial and great quality.

Another peg for the collection

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It is odd you mention them I was looking at those today on that site Thanks

Just to add a peg to the collection (apologies if I've missed it in someone else's reply): T bar rock pegs.

Just added some of these for the ring and pin pegging points as increasingly adding large heavy duty washers as replacement tops for the traditional rock pegs, which do all the tent base pegging points. The washers won't work with the poles and the T bar has better leverage for getting the rock pegs out when there are poles in the way. No one is going to stand on the pegs here either so the protuding top isn't an issue. Its nylon deltas (or washer topped rock pegs if the ground is too hard) for the guyropes.

Tend to use the traditional hook pegs only if run out of others (always keep the pegs the tent came with in the tent bag just in case we ever forgot the peg bags), to help pull pegs out and with the hook compressed a bit to help feed guyropes through our Glow worms - which go on every guyrope (wouldn't be without these now!).