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06/1/2015 at 2:50pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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Tricky one to answer.
I'm a Delta convert, but what the above comments suggest makes sense. At some stage... subject to wind speed, wind direction, softness of the ground, down force of rain/weight of wet material, even what weight/furniture is in the tent... but at some stage, something has to give.
Hopefully, it's you... packing up and going home.
If not, who knows.
If the peg won't come out of the ground, will the guyline snap in two, or the knot that connects it to the tent come undone? Or, as Geoff hints at, will the guyline remain fixed to the attachment point... which in turn gets ripped from the tent!!
We are all using the best methods, and best equipment... until circumstances prove otherwise, which could well be too late!
On my last trip, I thought my new Karsten pegs would be fine, but the ground was so wet and soft, some of them threatened to pull out, and no doubt would have, if the wind had been more than "moderate". I changed the main ones for my stainless Delta's, as soon as I noticed the opened out peg-holes, and everything returned to being "rock solid".
... but do we want everything "rock solid"?
On previous trips, I have only had one related incident...
Out for the day, V. windy, V. rainy, came back to a collapsed tarp, spiked pole on ground (luckily not slashed through tarp or tent!!) and a broken "unbreakable glass"!
All down to using straight, 8 inch long "T shaped" (when looking through cross section) yellow plastic pegs from GO, high wind, and V soft/wet ground. I re-jigged, using Delta's, and all was fine for the rest of the trip.... but had the wind dropped? Who knows?
Until it goes t*t's up, I'll continue to use at least one of the 3 types of Delta's I have, for the guys, and the standard "Hard ground" pegs (the one's similar to 9" nails!) elsewhere. I guess 90% of the time, my Karsten pegs would suffice, but I may aswell keep them shiny and in the shed as, in my opinion, I already have better in my bag.
Erm... sorry... what was the question again? 
Oh yeah... Personally, I'd get half a dozen, maybe a dozen at most, and spread them out between strategic guys on the Bell, and the rest on the tarp guys. But that's just me!
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