Well,i've bought my 9th tent of the year ,it's a vango flux airbeam 500 and I've got new Delta pegs to go with it only I can't work out how to get them into the ground!!! Do you shove them on an angle? Surely if you hammered them they would break and where would you hit them anyway?.My pitch cred is at stake here campers ,please help x.Ps how on earth can u pitch any tent in 3 mins,honestly thats what they say is the pitching time,takes me longer getting up off my knees lol
I use a rubber mallet, they're tough to get in but then they don't go anywhere! The upside is they are flush with the ground, and they're bright yellow and fairly substantial so easy to spot.
Don't be deceived by their appearance - they aren't made from a weak and feeble plastic they are nylon and are quite happy if you hit them hard with a hammer. I take a claw hammer with me to put them in, but also to help them to come out of the ground.
When you start have the peg with the hooked end facing slightly downward and then hit the spike end with the hammer - it will tend to push it under slightly and you end up with the top of the peg running in line with the ground - if it sits a bit proud just give it a knock with the hammer!!
When you start have the peg with the hooked end facing slightly downward and then hit the spike end with the hammer
I find they are a great stress relief.
I would never of thought of hitting the spike end I thought the spike end went into the ground.
Although they are made of tough nylon material, they can split if hit inappropriately, and I have a handful of casualties as evidence!
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Quote: Originally posted by AdenG1 on 05/8/2013
When you start have the peg with the hooked end facing slightly downward and then hit the spike end with the hammer
I find they are a great stress relief.
I would never of thought of hitting the spike end I thought the spike end went into the ground.
Not the spike end as such, but the flattened out part, at the top of the spiked leg... the spike itself does indeed go into the ground.
Anyway, Hacksaw Bob has linked to the perfect solution.... everything you need right there.
Quote: Originally posted by zivadog on 05/8/2013
Well,i've bought my 9th tent of the year ,it's a vango flux airbeam 500 and I've got new Delta pegs to go with it only I can't work out how to get them into the ground!!! Do you shove them on an angle? Surely if you hammered them they would break and where would you hit them anyway?.My pitch cred is at stake here campers ,please help x.Ps how on earth can u pitch any tent in 3 mins,honestly thats what they say is the pitching time,takes me longer getting up off my knees lol
Thanks to Hacksaw Bob for linking to instructions. Also I'm happy to email instructions individually to anyone who wants to drop me a line.
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Delta Ground Anchors..the strongest, most secure tent pegs in the world! Nylon anchors twice as efficient as rock pegs in 'average' soil! Quality stainless pegs for tougher soil are available.
Purchased a number of the plastic Delta pegs and most impressed by how they performed securing our tent guy ropes, tarp guy ropes, day tent guys and windbreak on a windy Shropshire hillside for ten days. Previously conventional pegs would have needed to be looked at regularly, sometimes replaced because they had turned or were pulled out of the ground, the Deltas did not budge.
They really are brilliant. Although we no longer tent camp, the tents may go but I'll never get rid of my deltas as they'll have so many other uses (eg securing windbreak or anything else that heeds to be guyed). In fact I'm using a couple in the garden now securing guylines to a couple of rotten fence posts - must have been in now over 12 months and never shifted!
I have never had a problem with any tent pegs coming out once they are in at the right angle and hammered right down to the ground. I think the advantage of Deltas is that a monkey couldn't hammer them in at the wrong angle although I have seen a few try.
The polycotton tarp is the main problem with conventional pegs in windy conditions and will cause pegs to turn and even come out of the ground in spite of the fact that they are hammered in correctly. There is a point where I take a view and simply take the tarp down.
Our ordinary tent pegs have needed looking at around the tent in windy conditions even when put in properly but do not present so much of a problem and the heavier steel rock pegs don't move. The advantage of the Deltas is that they are reliable,visible and flush with the ground. They are also very easy to hammer in and extract,
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