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misterg

29/8/2011 at 3:29pm
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I have just bought a new Bradcot modus awning complete with plastic pegs. These are fine for grass but I need pegs for hard standing as well.
i have done a search and read till confused. Are awning and tent pegs just the same? The screw in (and out)using a cordless drill appeal but I have no experience of putting the awning up on hard standing. Also mentioned is 160mm coach screws - do they work-they are much cheaper?
Are steel ones as good on grass ie to save having to take two sets.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

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Yes awning & tent pegs are the same, a set of rock pegs will do the job on hard standing & also on grass that is full of stones under the surface as it usually is. Take your plastic pegs as well because these are good for soft or sandy soil.

Search 'rock pegs' on google & ebay, you will find plenty. or just go to your local camping/caravan shop.

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I used to use the plastic pegs everywhere, I just carried a large old screwdriver that I used to make a hole for the pegs if they would not go in easily. Plastic pegs hold better than anything else so the system works, However, as I got older and lazier I bought rock pegs as there is less hammering, then I got even lazier and thought that screw pegs would be the answer. They are fantastic when they go in so easy to put in and so easy to get out, put on some of the hard standings they simply refuse to go in at all, they hit a largish stone and that is as far as you get, so nowadays I try the screwpegs and very quickly revert to the rock pegs and my friendly 2lb persuader.

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jennifernn

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Yes, we use the rock pegs all the time, not the smooth ones, the ones with sort of ridges round them.

And a proper hammer, a wooden or rubber mallet is no use at all.

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Quote: Originally posted by jennifernn on 29/8/2011
Yes, we use the rock pegs all the time, not the smooth ones, the ones with sort of ridges round them.

And a proper hammer, a wooden or rubber mallet is no use at all.

Agree entirely with rock pegs. We use this type (ours have a light green luminous plastic top). Use a claw hammer to uplift the pegs at the end of the holiday - the claw sgould fit between the plastic top and the 'nail head'. I tend not to like the sort with the flat plastic top - if you use a peg puller through the little hole, my experience is that the plastic top is prone to breaking. Usually carry a small lump hammer to hit in the pegs. Less bother than an ordinary hammer. Forget the rubber or wooden mallet.

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Most rock pegs for hard standings are toolong and thin. Ihave some pegs that are approx 17cm long and 8mm diameter and they are marvellous.
Unfortunately cannot find any these diamentions for sale anywhere (anybody know where to get them?)
Long standard diameter pegs start to bend long before they get in far enough. and the length is quite unnecessary. The fatter the peg the more breaking down power when hammering in.

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Long screws and penny washers, lump hammer them in, drill to get them out. Cheaper than rock pegs which in my experience used to bend a lot

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Local timber merchants get some 300mm+
woodscrews (what you would use for joists etc) and some washers

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Quote: Originally posted by misterg on 29/8/2011
I have just bought a new Bradcot modus awning complete with plastic pegs. These are fine for grass but I need pegs for hard standing as well.
i have done a search and read till confused. Are awning and tent pegs just the same? The screw in (and out)using a cordless drill appeal but I have no experience of putting the awning up on hard standing. Also mentioned is 160mm coach screws - do they work-they are much cheaper?
Are steel ones as good on grass ie to save having to take two sets.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

We bought 50 coach screws from Screwfix and matching washers. Worked out cheaper that buying packs of 20 awning pegs. Shared the 50 with my BIL.

Monty15

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Gave up on all the more feeble types of peg, now only use rock pegs/screw pegs/coach bolts regardless of ground.

Screw pegs are generally only standard coach bolts with a plastic hook fitted. The plastic hook (which rotates with the peg) is a right PITA when securing fixings attached to tent/awning body as they snag during rotation, then I use plain coach bolts and penny washers.

Club hammer to drive in, and a small crow bar with slot in ends widened to fit pegs for plain peg extraction. Cordless drill to drive/extract screw types.

iank01

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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 27/7/2023
Screw pegs are generally only standard coach bolts with a plastic hook fitted. The plastic hook (which rotates with the peg) is a right PITA when securing fixings attached to tent/awning body as they snag during rotation, then I use plain coach bolts and penny washers.

Yep nothing to beat those coach bolts and penny washers. We did similar with those silly plastic mushrooms pegs using a roof screws and washers. We can hammer them into ground that is almost as hard as rocks like most hardstanding on CAMC sites.

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We use the hammer in rock pegs, only issue we have ever had with them is where the hard standing in loose gravel and it's been a bit breezy

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Quote: Originally posted by iank01 on 27/7/2023

Quote: Originally posted by misterg on 29/8/2011
I have just bought a new Bradcot modus awning complete with plastic pegs. These are fine for grass but I need pegs for hard standing as well.
i have done a search and read till confused. Are awning and tent pegs just the same? The screw in (and out)using a cordless drill appeal but I have no experience of putting the awning up on hard standing. Also mentioned is 160mm coach screws - do they work-they are much cheaper?
Are steel ones as good on grass ie to save having to take two sets.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

We bought 50 coach screws from Screwfix and matching washers. Worked out cheaper that buying packs of 20 awning pegs. Shared the 50 with my BIL.

The OP has probably purchased new pegs by now, as posted almost 12 years ago 😀.

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Indeed. The OP last posted in 2021. Wouldn’t it be nice if they responded to the thread that they started, to let people know what pegs they’ve been using all these years? They only posted once in this one.

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2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.

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