tent pegs! who is up for a thrilling discussion about tent pegs?

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our bog standard pegs were not up to the job last weekend (sandy campsite and windy on the last night = big kite). any recommendations please?

I have had no problems extracting my deltas when carrying out my practice pegging in the garden. However I have been sufficiently scared by tales of cemented in pegs on ukcs that the claw hammer is going to have a little holiday this year 'just in case'.

Thank you for your excellent mime though 'twas most informative.

Has your claw hammer a suitably masculine name? Will it be packed betwixt the forge steel and the Groundhog pegs?

That is a seriously testosterone filled peg bag you have there Wildy.

must admit to being a bit of a peg freak too

we have

original "L" pegs that came with tent (cr@p)
"V" pegs (ok most of the time)
ground sheet pegs (flat-topped, for using on the footprint, obviously...)
hard ground pegs (name says it all)
rock pegs (ditto)
delta pegs (fabby do)

never had a problem getting deltas out either, as Slubber says take them out the same way they went in & if stuck just wiggle a bit first.

oh my god do i have to worry about pegs as well - in my new tent (2nd handy lokon vario 6) it has erm normal looking ones tht are steel and then some normal looking ones with a circle curly top like round thing .

Oooh nice Nappyzone, we nearly brought that tent it's fab.

It's worth getting a few Deltas in case of very bad weather.

But don't go buying all your kit this year, or you'll have nothing to buy next year.

Yes it looks nice but is feckin huge and weighs a ton and comes in a v large bag- we are going to have an other proper practise putting up at weekend but dh swore alot last night Actually thinking of putting it back in the local rag and seeing if we can get away all of us in the icarus which i will buy tomrowo.

Slubber the claw hammer will be rooted out of Dp's tool bag at the last minute, it will be all painty and dusty and hence will not be going anywhere near my lovely things of camping. It can live in the car.

Most of his hammers are Estwings, which is quite macho in a US kind of stylee.

Estwings grrr. The paint and filth sound all very macho and authentic.

nappy most people get along fine with the standard metal pegs that come with the tent. It's only really if it gets very windy that you need to worry, or if you are camping on a sand dune or in a quarry

There is talk of cross pegging over on ukcs. As far as I can work out (without being given handy virtual hand demonstrations) you bang a second peg in at right angles, in front of the first peg.

nappy - the standard pegs are okay most of the time, I just remember one awfully windy week on a rocky pitch in the Scottish Highlands with (now ex, but that wasn't why!) DH when we'd only got half the pegs in properly (as the other half were bent and/or sticking up as we couldn't get them in any further), we seemed to spend the entire week bashing the pegs back in, and slept in fear of being blown away

At some point it would be worth getting some decent pegs for your main guy ropes and if I were starting again I'd probably just get deltas. No rush though, as WTWTW says, something to add to your "winter" shopping list for next year's camping trips

"cross-pegging" Slubber? - that's a new one on me, I hope someone will do a utube demo

Hmmm it used to be recomended that you cross-pegged doorways, did it not? To prevent the zip from being under tension.

I guess tents with sigs rule out all of that kind of palava.

I have never done it for adverse weather, but it actually makes a lot of sense,

Ooooo now I think I really need some Delta pegs

After all tis very windy in Scotland!

Always do that for zips WTWTW (as in peg LH elastic/rubber on peg to RHS & RH elastic/rubber to peg on LHS?) but have never known it called cross-pegging, you learn something new every day

Slubber - is that what you meant? I read your description meaning pegging the short bit of the "L" of the 2nd peg at 90deg to the short bit of the "L" of the 1st peg, but I am a tad confused this evening anyway and not just about cross pegging

Betsy I'm a tad confused myself (default brain setting most of the time). I wish I could see a picture.

As far as I can work out, standard pegs come out when you have a peiod of lots of little tugs (or one biggun) that cause the hole that the peg is in to stretch out backwards (towards the tent)

oh hell this is hard

So the bit of the peg that is sticking out is being pulled backwards and the bit of the peg that is in the ground is moving forwards. When the hole is big enough the peg just sort of flips out if it gets pulled hard enough.

If you bang a second peg in, at right angles, so its shaft (fnar) is crossing in front of the 1st peg's shaft under the ground, then that will prevent the 1st peg (wot the guy is attached to) from pivoting about and making the hole.

I think that is what they mean.

There is the other sort of cross pegging for doorways wot you have explained in a far more clevererer fashion.

This is why I love the deltas so much, they appeal hugely to my inner angular nerd. I love that the harder the guy pulls on the delta, the harder it pulls itself down into the ground. Brilliant bit of simple engineering. Why Mr Orr hasn't been on Dragon's Den I'll never know.

There is a strong possibility that I am talking a whole heap of utter bollock though.

I would be very happy for someone who actually knows what they are talking about to come and clear up the issue of cross pegging in a clear and decisive fashion.

Slubber i now beleive afetr your excellent post that i need double my pegs so i can cross peg them or i can go and buy 4 deltas and stick one in eack corner - is that as in corner of the tent low down corner or each guy rope on the corner though?

Delta's are for guys not your actual tent, when the wind gets up it tends to be your guy ropes that take all of the strain.

Slubber, that explanation makes sense to my simple brain now thanks

I'll stick with me deltas though, I love all them angles too They are just soooo clever & never budge at all, so much better than going round repegging in the middle of the night in howling wind & rain

Oh I'm so pleased that I made sense

I also love that the deltas are yellow and sit almost flat to the floor. No more stubbed toes hurrah.

nappy, as Wildy says they are only for your guys. I have one per guy but plenty of folk just have one for each of the corners.

I must fish out OhYouBadKitten's thread from last year on the Isle of White iirc. gripping stuff. Her deltas saved the day!

oh please do . i await with anticipation.........

Delta peg testimonial

Oh I dashed over to boast of our delta pegs and see that Slubber has beat me to it

They are fab, but a ridiculous shape/size to fit in a peg bag

I have mine in one of those freebie cooler bags from sainsbury's last year.

wow loving that story lol.