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Yet more praise for these amazing tent pegs. We are in Cornwall at the moment and have just had two days of high and really gusty winds. First time i have used the Deltas and they have not moved at all and they really have been tested with the winds but also the ground is absolutely saturated and the normal pegs were just pulling out of the mud. I have them on all the guy lines on the pathfinder and awning plus a tie down on the inside of each front corner of the awning. Absolutely Fantastic!!!!!

Do they really make that much difference??

Guess i never have been in extreme conditions. Thought i had and now feel like amature.

Thats another thing i am adding to my Xmas list  Cheers

dont wish to be thick but what exactly are these delta clips ?

thanks, jo.

I've got some delta pegs and they are really good for guy ropes (although I use them on similar webbing straps on my tt).  I'm not technically minded but these seem very well designed. 

I work out where I need the guy and insert peg about 90% into the ground.  The L shape peg should point towards the tent.  I hook the guy under the notch (untensioned) and then hit the remaining 10% of the peg home.  The peg should be hit into ground so that the top part of the peg (parrallel to the ground part) should be flush with the ground (added benefit - nothing to trip over!).  I then tension the guy ropes and boy do they hold there ground.

I'm no engineer but I can see that the tension exerted on the peg will transfer along the horizontal part of the peg and actually make the ground part of the peg dig deeper into the ground.  The pegs also have a large surface area which helps.

They only weather conditions I worry about when camping are gale force winds and trust me these pegs are really good.

I think this testimonial from their website (http://www.deltagroundanchors.co.uk/home/a4_testimonials) says it all:

"We have been using steel anchors from Delta in our Portable Helicopter landing pads for the past year.  We are confident in their ability to hold our pad in place under what would normally be considered as adverse conditions, allowing that the downdraft is approx 180 miles per hour"
John King, Managing Director, Linear Guidance Illumination.