Sorry me again 🫣 still trying to get organised for our first trip in our folding camper, as we have always been tent campers on grass never had to considers different types of pegs, so now we have a camper we will sometimes use hard standing with awning on grass or hard standing and having researched pegs for hard standing I am totally confused as some say screw pegs some say delta and some say rock pegs any advice much appreciate.
I would go as far as to say do not use nylon Deltas on hard grounds as you will ruin them!
I carry and use screw in pegs for hard grounds made by Blue Diamond, and carry a drill for that purpose in case I need to use them.
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The ONLY pegs I use these days, be it for caravan awning on grass or hardstanding, or the rare occasion of tent camping, are Rock Pegs!
A combination of straight ones and screw ones as the ground demands. I also use a long (100mm depth/150mm overall length) 5mm diameter masonry drill bit in my battery drill (I carry that anyway to wind my corner steadies) to make a decent hole in rocky ground, it makes it much easier to get pegs in securely AND saves bending them!
I supplement the screw pegs with M8x200mm Coach Screws, with a Penny Washer (large diameter washer) when I don't need the hooked top of a normal peg, such as the pegging loops on bottom of awning walls etc. (where the rotating hook often snags and risks damaging the fabric wall/fixed loop). Screw pegs are only standard Coach Screws with a plastic hook attached! Available from decent hardware stores like Toolstation, Screwfix etc.
You'll find hardstandings vary a LOT! Some are deep loose gravel/chippings (where pegs struggle to grip! - two pegs driven diagonally at 90 degrees to each other normally sorts that!), some are a shallow layer of looser material over near solid compounded rock foundation (TRULY the domain of the rock peg!), others are a nice compact but not rock hard base.
I no longer bother carrying the acquired assortment of wire, plastic, formed metal etc. pegs that came with awnings and tents, it's Rock Pegs every time.
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Topic: Pegs
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