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Hi all

Your ideas needed.  

A few of the campsites that I have been looking into have hard standing, how do you peg out a trailer tent?  my friend has advised to get some 6" nails and washers, but i don't think that they would be long enough.

Help!!!!! i want to go away soon....

Hi Suzibe,

I try to avoid hardstandings but if the grass is closed due to soft ground you need steel pegs. This link will take you to an online shop, look for groundhog steel or T Top Rock. http://www.camping-online.co.uk/tentpegs.htm  Dont forget to take a steel hammer only the tent peg mallet is not up to the job. I have a large folding camper and if I have to use a hardstanding I don't put the awning up.

Happy Camping

Ray

Hi Ray

Thanks for the advise, will get some of those and a steel hammer otherwise my rubber one might disintegrate....  unfortunately due to mine being a trailer tent, it is almost a must to put up the awning..

thanks again

Sue

I think it depends how hard the hard standing is - we've quite happily pitched our trailer tent on hardstandings that were basically scalpings compacted over sub-soil - if you get rock pegs, they'll easily go through, (though a wooden mallet or even a metal hammer are better than a rubber mallet for these!)  Rock pages are basically masonry nails with a T-pieceof steel welded to them near the head.  [There are also some available with nylon T-pieces - avoid these,as if you catch the nylon t-piece with the hammer thay may crack - I've broken several with a tent peg extractor!]

We've also stayed once on a tarmac hard-stand - it was possible to position the cabin over the tarmac and the awning on grass - caravans would have to do the same, wouldn't they?