Camoing advice

[dustystar]

I know this is really boring but I need advice on tent pegs.

We've just had a fab weekend at a campsite in the New Forest and we will definitely go back. The only problem is the ground is so hard and stony its really difficult to get the pegs in and even our heavy duty pegs eneded up getting bent.

I've heard that Delta pegs are good but wondered if anyone had any advice about pegs that are particularly good for hard ground.

Doh i mean camping advice

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Delta pegs are good but if you ask at the tent shop they shuld be able to point you in the direction of good qwuality ones that will take more punishment, the ones provided with tents are often poor quality, they may as well be amde of couathangers tbh.

But stones is stones- they're a bane and you just have to move around.

Agree that having some heavy duty ones is a good idea, but they will always get buckled if you hit a big stone, so have lots spare as well , just in case

Unfortunately the whole site is the same peachy so we need some that will cope as we are definitely going to go back there. fortunately we has lots of spares but now most of them are bent

Is that the site that was an airfield previously? forest Holidays?

No I think that one must be Holmesley - we went to Longbeech.

Deffo not Holmesley- that's the family friendly one, years ago we (as in my then BF, sis and her male mate and another ten or so of us) went to The New Forest in a convoy of mini's for August Bank Holiday, and ended up on a small campsite which now I think about it may not ahve been Forest Holidays (me and then BF ended up on Hollands Wood later on). BF's car broke down so he and I had to go back and fetch my Mini, but my sister amused herself getting the others drunk, and taking pictures of them drunkly worshipping the fixtures from a very old airfield that she saw buried in the grass!

very typical of Sis, she likes to be In Charge

I'm sure Holmesley used to be an airfield - I remember my mum taking me out there when i was learning to drive. Longbeech is owned by Forest holidays but it defintitely wasn't an airfield because its a beechwood

Just had a look online and it could be Ocknell that you went to which is really close to Longbeech and is on the edge of the airfield that used to be at Stoney Cross. I ahd a look round there and it was really nice but noisier than Longbeech as it is quite close to the A31.

on the subject of pegs, being a camping novice, we have been advised to buy some storm pegs, but whenever i look in the camping shops there is never anything labelled "storm pegs" iyswim! Are they called something else or am i just not seeing them?

You want delta pegs really, UK campsite sell them online or so do a few other places- type delta pegs into google

Delta are by far the best of their type

If you are a member of ukcampsite you get a discount for delta pegs

You do indeed (you a member too then Dusty?)

I love that website!

I am peachy under my old mn name of amynnixmum. I don't post that often but have got some good advice from there.

Actually I lie thats not my nickname on there

PMSL I ahd no idea who you were, now I do !

All makes sense now

Mine is the same everywhere- easy to remember that way. I'm lazy ike that.

When i joined mn i hadn't used a message board/chatroom site before so i hadn't thought of a nickname and just put down the names of my kids. I joined ukcampsite later and chose something different but it won't let me change it to dustystar now which I like much better.

I always read your name as a play on anony ous mum!

never even occurred to me that it was names