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Just had a weeks holiday down at Woolacombe Bay campsite.  Lovely area and not a bad site but yet again we got absolutely battered by strong winds and rain!!  Only used the Columbia 3 times since we have got it and it has been bashed about by gale force winds twice and the other time it got soaked as we were packing it away!  This last time me and Hubby were up at 6am re-pegging the front corner after it collapsed, our own fault as we hadn't pegged it down properly in the first place (not expecting such strong winds to be honest!!!)  A quick question, the ground was extremely soft and kept pulling the pegs out, what does everyone recommend using for this, eventually we used our rock pegs which did seem to hold but we had to double peg everything for it to hold in place. 

Anyway we are going to Skeggy in a month's time so fingers crossed for 4 days of sunshine!!  Anybody heading over that way at the beginning of August i will apologise for the bad weather now!!

We use long rock pegs around the base of our Columbia (always inserted at an angle) every time she's used and if we can, delta pegs for the guyropes. In Norfolk a few weeks ago the ground was so hard as they've had no rain for months that the nylon deltas wouldn't go into the ground, so had to use the rock pegs for the guyropes too. We always full guy out too irrespective of the forecast and have the TBSII system in place when we go out and overnight.

It took over an hour trying to get the rock pegs out after the week in Norfolk, with many of the plastic tops giving way to the claw hammer rather than coming out so we'll be adding more washers to replace the plastic tops.

We haven't had to double peg the Columbia yet, but have done with other tents in the past in soft ground. You can also add extra guyropes to help too.

I would recommend rock pegs with the screw shanks...hold down a jump jet

Then if they are difficult to pull out you just give them a couple of turns anti-clockwise and that loosens them.

I use this type...and that's a blooming good price for them. Works out about 63p each including postage  

Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 21/6/2011

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I use this type...and that's a blooming good price for them...

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