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PersonGrahamHMiller
28/7/2012 at 8:15pm
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Hi,

Got a brand new Kalahari 8 and tested it all out during the week. One thing puzzled me, and I'm hardly a camping novice. There appeared to be two types of tent pegs. One that I'm used to, like stiff metal wire, bent into a question-mark head. And the others were a bent over bit of angled steel.

Being traditional I used the first type as I have done for the last twenty odd years. The weird thing was that I pegged out the groundsheet properly, with the elastics, poles and straps all pegged. But then I didn't have enough for the guy ropes.

Should I use one type for guy ropes and the other for the groundsheet? Or are they for two different sorts of terrain?

Cheers

Graham


Personmasekwm
28/7/2012 at 8:24pm
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I think the different style are for the tent and groundsheet and the others for guys. Are they colour coded?


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28/7/2012 at 8:31pm
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You'll probably find you have enough of the angled ones to peg out each of the guys, these being more suitable than wire pegs in moderately soft/sandy ground.


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28/7/2012 at 9:45pm
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I have the Kalahari 8, we have 3 types of pegs, 1 - steel with a loop at the top for the ground sheet, 2 - steel L shaped for guys, 3 - metal flat broad pegs for the webbing on tent, hope this helps.



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The V shaped ones are for the groundsheet, if you count them they will match the anchor points at either end of the tent.  Ours has 4 of these at both ends of the tent, the others are for the end of each pole and the guy ropes.

Pete.



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