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my new tent arrived today!!

now, i have had a look through the bits and found two different type of tent peg. One is set is what i expected but there are four with a Round hook type of thing. what are these for???

Hi Syman,

They might be for the groundsheet [porch or living area?]

Best wishes

John

it does have a ground sheet for the "living area" so you may well be right.

thanks for that

Are the round hook ends at a 90 degree to the peg?

If so they are usually for the groundsheet.

A sort of round loop at right angles to the peg shaft? They`re for pegging down the webbing strap that runs across the front door, and two for the pegging points in the front of the small pod. Been a while since I did this in my late Cadiz, but if I recall right there are two eyelets in the crossways tension strap there, and the flat topped pegs go through the pod pegging points, through the eyelets and into the ground. There might have been eyelets in the groundsheet too at this point....can`t quite recall.

If the pegs weren`t flat topped they might fret into the pod groundsheet, or cut someone`s foot.

Incidentally, does the Cadiz still come with L-shaped pegs? Because I found them a bit unreliable, in that they rotated in the ground and let the guylines slip off. Crook-top pegs are much better and not expensive, which is why I replaced all the Gelert ones with them.