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jim oldham

05/8/2018 at 9:17pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Hairywol on 05/8/2018
I'm just back from Southern Spain where the ground was the hardest I've ever encountered. Once I thought the pitch was a slab of concrete.

Pour water over the place you wish to place the peg.
Repeat when extracting.

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Quote: Originally posted by Andy2444 on 05/8/2018
I'm finding it hard with getting the right pegs too. I bought a brand new tent all with shiny new steel v shape pegs used them once on a grass pitch and everyone of them is bent into a L shape my sister in law used rock pegs and they had to practically dig them out they were stuck solid

I have used rock pegs for some years now and sometimes struggled to get them out. I have only recently discovered that if you use a claw hammer you can lever them out easily with that. Hook the claw under the peg with the head of the hammer resting on the ground and simply lever the hammer. This frees them then you can just pull them out.

chrisn7

06/8/2018 at 1:28pm
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I bought some screw pegs that were a waste of time. I found that the hex heads were really too shallow and as soon a stone was hit, the peg twisted inside the (new) socket. Gave up and resorted to rock pegs and never bothered with the wretched things since

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03/9/2022 at 6:28pm
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Hi all just seen your problems with hard standing pegs, I invested in a dozen Peggy pegs ( £12 for four online ) designed for compacted ground. Hammer in screw out absolutely no problems, the secret is in the hammer do not use a normal peg hammer ( rubber ) all the impact will be absorbed by the hammer and will not drive the peg in
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Marty ( Norfolk )

Mick S.

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Quote: Originally posted by martyl677609bbz on 03/9/2022
Hi all just seen your problems with hard standing pegs, I invested in a dozen Peggy pegs ( £12 for four online ) designed for compacted ground. Hammer in screw out absolutely no problems, the secret is in the hammer do not use a normal peg hammer ( rubber ) all the impact will be absorbed by the hammer and will not drive the peg in
Good luck
Marty ( Norfolk )

Never understood why a rubber mallet is deemed a 'peg hammer'? Rubber v steel? Cant think how that can go wrong! A 2 pound builders lump hammer is the only tool for the job. Available at a car boot sale near you....for usually - about 2 quid!

Kelper

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I screw my Peggy Pegs in and out with a cordless drill ... steel ones for hard ground, plastic for other.

Only once used a hammer (steel) in eight years ...

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I've never had to resort to rock pegs or screw pegs but if I had to put up a tent on concrete like ground and happened to have a battery hammer drill with me I'd fit it with a long but thinner masonry drill bit and drill the hole into which I would then screw the peg.

I'm happy with 3 finned aluminium pegs for guy lines and the original supplied pegs for the tent sides. My problem is more of guy line pegs pulling out of wet sandy soil.

Since I don't want to carry a drill I could be tempted to get some rock pegs as back up, just in case.

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I bought some screw pegs many years ago. Never did manage to screw them into the ground. They have laid in a box in my garage since then.

I always carry set of plastic pegs for grass pitches (for which I us a plastic mallet) and rock pegs for hardstandings. Use the famous claw hammer for them.

morepints

08/9/2022 at 10:33am
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On the principle that annular ring nails are hard to extract, screw pegs should be more resistant to wind pressures. I tend to use a Birmingham screwdriver to insert, and the claw to extract on soft ground. If more force is needed then use the 13mm socket on the drill.
As we have a sail awning, where gusty conditions even these weren’t enough, I also have some 250mm marquee pegs, and a 1.5kg lump hammer (the latter new kit this season - cost £8 from EBay).

SoggySteve

13/9/2022 at 10:03am
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Delta Ground Anchors are the best pegs I have ever used and I have probably been through bags of all varieties of them over the last 40+ years. The metal ones are very expensive but not so the yellow plastic ones we have used for many years for tent lines to awnings and flysheets. Have a read up and see if they appeal...

dk168

13/9/2022 at 10:10am
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I too am a fan of the nylon (yellow) Delta ground anchors.

However, personally, I found them hard work for use on hard grounds.

Hence I carry other types of pegs, including screw in pegs, rock pegs etc. to cover all types of grounds.

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13/10/2022 at 12:02am
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screw pegs came into their own when a hardstanding pitch was made of reclaimed tarmac/cindery stuff, and it was only a shallow covering on the ground many years ago, they were also stated to be a better peg for sandy/soil type pitches.
Now hardstanding is really hardstanding so its rockpegs for most of them and not all rockpegs are equal there are rockpegs (lightweight) and rockpegs (heavyduty)

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