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novicemummy

04/9/2013 at 10:12am
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Hi, we're off on our 2nd trip a week on Saturday and the site reviews suggest rock pegs might be useful, we only have the Vango standard came with tent pegs so am guessing these are going to get bent to bits. I've read a load of threads about rock pegs and am none the wiser as there seems to be so many different products out there. I have a Decathlon quite near work so thinking these http://www.decathlon.co.uk/6-x-25cm-long-pegs-id_6192321.html or these http://www.decathlon.co.uk/16-cm-steel-camping-tent-pegs-x6-id_8099369.html might do the job? Do we just use the normal rubber mallet to bash them in. I am sort of on a budget having gone back to work part-time and reeling from the marital discord of me purchasing new sims so hoping that I don't have to spend too much, thank you in advance for your help

lmhaig

04/9/2013 at 10:34am
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After much deliberation I ordered these yesterday. Have read good things about them so hoping they live up to the reviews!

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=161032088026

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Jax365

04/9/2013 at 10:49am
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I have this sort of rock peg. They are extremely hard and no plastic bits to break. Served me well for a few years now.

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griff10553

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We use these 9" Sunncamp almighty Tent Pags.They have gone in any ground we have been one.

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novicemummy

04/9/2013 at 11:03am
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Thank you everyone! There are some good non-bank busting links there to waste some office time.

Jax - do the tops of those pegs above the T-bar really stick up as I'm wary of little novice's tripping over them, at least with the normal pegs and handily the steel ones that Griff linked to in theory they'd be flush.

Valk_scot

04/9/2013 at 11:44am
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And yes, you just bash them in with a normal mallet. It's pleasure to hammer rock pegs in actually, you can feel the earth shattering beneath you as you do so. Getting them out again though....a claw hammer is quite useful for this.

Grampian91

04/9/2013 at 12:20pm
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We now use the threaded type of rock pegs. No matter how strong the pegs are when they hit a stone they will bend.

Cordless drill to insert them, No more damaged pegs.

timtheenchanter

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the nail types are good for very rocky ground, however I have found the need to repeg a few times when its been really windy as they seem to work loose quite easy in rocky but looseish ground,
The grounds been too hard for my other pegs, but not hard enough for the rocks.

I'm aiming on getting some screw in ones shortly to see how they do.

evenstephen

04/9/2013 at 3:26pm
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Never tried using the rubber mallet to bash them in. We have a small Poundshop claw hammer just for that job (and it only cost £1) - gets them in fine and the claw bit gets them out and it stays in the rock peg bag so I know where it is.

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I've found a normal hammer to be much better than a rubber mallet on rock pegs - the latter has a dangerous tendency to bounce off the peg when you're giving it a good belt.

heath63

04/9/2013 at 5:07pm
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I use a claw hammer for extraction. I have snapped à handle in half of a rubber hammer

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Dubstepper

04/9/2013 at 6:04pm
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Used my first rock peg last weekend, was really pleased with myself, until I tried to get it out. Claw hammers? I take enough stuff camping!!

dk168

04/9/2013 at 6:36pm
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I carry 8mm T-bar rock pegs from Delta Pegs (currently out of stock):

Products available from Delta Ground Anchors, including T-bar rock pegs

I bash them in using either a rubber mallet or a metal hammer, depending how hard is the ground.

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Jax365

05/9/2013 at 10:44am
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Quote: Originally posted by novicemummy on 04/9/2013

Thank you everyone! There are some good non-bank busting links there to waste some office time.
Jax - do the tops of those pegs above the T-bar really stick up as I'm wary of little novice's tripping over them, at least with the normal pegs and handily the steel ones that Griff linked to in theory they'd be flush.

They do stick up as I recall, but no more so than any of the others. I haven't used them in a while... But you need to leave a bit sticking up to pull them back out again.

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griff10553

05/9/2013 at 1:12pm
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We used to use the Tarzan rock pegs, which are the "T" shaped ones and do stick out of the ground an inch or so. We used to put a tennis ball over the obvious ones as once you`ve caught your foot/toe on one you won`t want to do it again

Also consider which way your mud walls fall. If they tuck inside the awning then the "T" shaped rock pegs are ok, but if your mud walls fall away from the awning then personally I would use pegs like the Sunncamp almighty as they are flush to the ground and no danger of puncturing the mud walls.

Griff

evenstephen

05/9/2013 at 3:28pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Dubstepper on 04/9/2013
Used my first rock peg last weekend, was really pleased with myself, until I tried to get it out. Claw hammers? I take enough stuff camping!!

If you're having trouble pulling rock pegs out just give them a couple of gentle bashes side to side to loosen them a bit. And sorry, a small claw hammer really will make pulling them out a doddle.

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