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Subject Topic: Pegs are stuck!!! Post Reply Post New Topic
21/6/2009 at 8:45pm
 Location: Cheshire
 Outfit: Outwell Idaho xl 8
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Hi people i've been away for one night this weekend and when i was packing away earlier today i couldn't get my pegs out of the ground...On the guy lines i had the long plastic type pegs and standard floppy vamgo pegs on the tent.. Any advice on better pegs would be good.

Thanks in advance.....



21/6/2009 at 8:53pm
 Location: Scotland.
 Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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If you dig out the hook on the top a bit then slide a wire peg in under, you can get a two-handed grip and get most pegs out. Or get a peg puller? Or a mallet with a puller hook on one side? Or a claw hammer?

As for getting better pegs, if they don't come out the ground easily then they sound like okay pegs to me!



21/6/2009 at 9:02pm
 Location: Netherlands
 Outfit: De Waard Esvo (3) Hypercamp
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When we broke camp today, we couldnt get our pegs out either !!!

This is the first time that we have had this problem.

2 bent peg pullers and a few bent pegs later, OH said thats it, they can stay there lol

So we fought to get the Deltas out and left the rest.

On the way out we handed in the water key at reception and told them about the pegs. They said they would get them out when the ground is softer.

OH asked if she would post them to us lol

Should have used rock pegs but it was grass !!

In future we will take rocks pegs on every trip then if the pegs are really hard to hammer in the rock pegs can come out to play

But as Val said, if a peg wont come out then it is doing a pretty good job ;)

Angie

 



21/6/2009 at 9:15pm
 Location: norfolk
 Outfit: Hypercamp Esvo Cabanon
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go round and pour water over the pegs and by the time you get back to the first peg they should come out easier

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21/6/2009 at 9:40pm
 Location: north east of scotland
 Outfit:  Vango Icarus
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good tip i'll have to remember that 17

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21/6/2009 at 9:53pm
 Location: Derby
 Outfit: Bailey Ranger Series 5. 500 5 (2007)
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The only peg puller i have found that works is tthe one sold by Delta pegs.

http://www.deltagroundanchors.co.uk/home/a5_products

It is stainless steel and really strong.

 



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22/6/2009 at 9:56am
 Location: E Yorkshire
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I had this problem when I stayed at Chapel St Leonards last year. Rock pegs all stuck in, and not leaving them behind. I ended up going to one of those two huge bargain shops on the way down to the sea front, and bought a four feet long crow bar.  Great tip about the water, thanks. I've camped for over fifty years, and never heard that tip before.

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22/6/2009 at 10:07am
 Location: Nottinghamshire
 Outfit: Coleman Evolva
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The water tip, is good . I do that not only to get the pegs out , but on occaisions to put them in also . Years ago , before tents got sophisticated , a guy who I went camping with occaisionally always used to carry a bag of readymix cement incase of storm forecast . Never saw it in use , or if he was just pulling my leg . But I can picture him trying to set the pegs in cement , and explaining this to the camp warden !! This same person was also convinced that you had to pitch head first into the wind . Fortunately, he was never good at working out wind direction !!

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22/6/2009 at 10:40am
 Location: Newton le Willows LANCASHIRE
 Outfit: Burnt out wreck
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The normal peg pullers are useless...Use a Mole wrench...they'll shift owt.



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