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Hello all, advice time please.

After wiping out our stock of standard pegs and getting sick of starting the weekend with only three undamaged fingers! We've decided to invest in some new awning pegs. We've (first time this year) started to winter camp and are now members of the Caravan Club, so need the ones that also work on hardstanding. Looking through Towsure brochure (pg63) there seems to be two types that look and sound the part, but offer different advantages.....

1st is the 'Thread Pegs' that screw down with the aid of a cordless drill or wrench. Easy & quick and the brochure says they'll do for hardstanding, but

2nd is the 'Rock Peg Kit' which are "heavy duty" and come with their own special claw hammer.

Am I falling for some kind of sales gimmick that I'm totally missing, or is there some advantage to the claw hammer?

OR

Am I being a typical bloke and liking the idea of using my Hilti SIW to put up the awning!!

Please help me decide or shove me in the right direction.

Hi

I use these HERE after trying others, they appear to work best. The other type of hard ground peg HERE are too easy to break when you miss the peg and hit the plastic bit.

HTH

Paul

We use the very plain steel ones which look like a nail, but with a cross piece.  In our experience, all the ones with plastic tops break too easily.

I use a 'Mr Ultimates', plus a good heavy mallet and molegrips.  Provided I put my fingers in my ears whilst he pinches his fingers with the molegrips pulling them out, it all works quite nicely.

As yet, I am undecided about whether to replace the molegrips or Mr Ultimates.

Hi

I find the best for almost all situations look like a piece of re-inforcing bar you'd find on building sites bent over at the top but are in bright (anodised?) metal. And they don't bend easily.

Sorry, no links for these.

Tyreman

We use rock pegs too - but carry some plastic ones for use in sandy soils.
I have seen delta pegs used - brilliant concept, dunno about practicality though.