just bought a large 8 man tunnel tent and it has the usual thin wire pegs that in the past have always bent really easily for me. is it common practice if you are a "hardcore" camper to bin these and get a load of better pegs?
in the past the thin metal ones, one they are the slightest bit bent,will turn round in any srt of wind and chuck the guy ropes off.
yeah, Deltas for grass and some big steel 6" nail types, galvanised for those rockier sites
I've got hollow alluminium pegs with my Wild Country (Terra Nova's 'budget' range) tent. They're super-strong and long-lasting; light, too.
Even standard pegs should last if you're careful about placing them. The biggest cause of damage is pressing them in with your foot. It's hard to tell if you've come up against anything immoveable and the result is that the peg bends. Simply by taking a peg out and finding a different angle of insertion, you'll find that they last much longer.
I've used the 6" nail types pretty much 100% of the time since I got them. They work a CHARM in anything from rocks to grass and they don't even bend if you split rocks with them!, but they are a bit heavy.
cant find em on weightweenies.com....
Lol at Snakebite!
I use nothing but rock pegs for my base camp tent especially in and around Coniston. They're the dddies!
I have got some nice billet dural ones I bought a few years ago, titanuim are available for the bling
What tent for Afan?..... 😯
Another vote for Delta's.
Afan? One with an inflatable "wedge" inside to make a leval surface for sleeping would be nice - that site behind the café is steep!
yup, 9" rock pegs is what you need. or make your own. and a gurt big hammer. We got ours from a C&C club site in the lakes where the worryingly scout master like warden told us it was the only way to pitch on there standings (whilst sneering at us in a 'where's your caravan' fashion') and charged us an extortionate amount for them, think we paid £40 for enough to pitch our 8 man tent
Earthquake Pegs - got to be the answer! I found them years back in The Climbers Shop in Ambleside, they are just fantastic! Not light or compact mind, but you can put a tent up on tarmac with ease (and a big hammer)
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Afan? One with an inflatable "wedge" inside to make a leval surface for sleeping would be nice - that site behind the café is steep!
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(The plastic ones)
+1 for deltas. steel if reqd. one for each corner.
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Go to your local fishing shop and get some Nash bivvy pegs, Very strong and fairly lite. I've spent plenty of nights camped out on the side of big windswept lakes, with these holding an umbrella down for shelter!
Fancy tent pegs are expensive tho, our big tents come with like 30 or 40 pegs, replacing those would not be cheap.
8 man tunnel tent, have you got a lot of friends?
These are good,light and reasonably priced.
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/hi-gear-alloy-tent-7-inch-camping-pegs-p143617
Ian