We’re at an age now where we’re trying to make setting up our caravan as easy as possible!
As we have 2 dogs, we generally put up either a porch or full awning on our trips away for more than a couple of days, for extra space and/or somewhere to dry them when wet.
It looks as though these pegs that can be screwed in with a drill could save considerable time and effort. We did try some cheapish ones, but they only worked on grassy pitches, where it’s easy enough to hammer in pegs anyway!
Does anyone have any experience with these Peggy Pegs (or similar that you would recommend), specifically whether they are suitable for hardstandings?
we just use the corkscrew type, they are quick and easy to get in the ground, but dont half put up a good fight with the dogs trying to break free, so far they have never managed it and that has been with 3 dogs over the last 25 years, made of steel, cant see the plastic ones lasting that long can you?
Cant say I've tried Peggy Pegs, or for that matter personally know anyone who has, but I've tried a LOT of different pegs over the decades, and now only use hammer in or screw in Rock Pegs depending on the ground. Hammer in type work on firmish ground fine, but screw in have better retention on soft/loose ground. If one peg is not assuredly secure, then two pegs at an near 90 degree angle to each other as a single anchor point usually works. On one hopeless loose pea gravel hardstanding I had to use 3x pegs at angles to get something close to an anchorage!
If using screw in/out pegs, then a battery drill is essential, you'll exhaust yourself doing it by hand! I carry the battery drill for the caravan corner steadies anyway, so only a case of getting the adaptor, and many peg sets come with it anyway.
BEWARE of screw pegs with the 'hook' rigidly attached that rotate with the peg! - if using to peg out the tags on walls/mud flaps of awnings, they can easily 'grab' the tag and risk damage to it and the attached wall! My solution is to use standard COACH SCREWS and PENNY WASHERS from a hardware shop for those fixings. The screws are exactly the same as the screw in rock pegs, just without the plastic hook attached. In fact you can buy just the hooks to use with standard Coach Screws.
On rocky ground, with either hammer in or screw in rock pegs which baulk at hidden obstructions and risk bending, I Pre-Drill the hole with a long small diameter masonry bit in the battery drill (with hammer action).
Another trick on obstinate ground for both insertion and extraction is to wet it, leave for a few minutes, then deal with the peg. A watering can is ideal for precise wetting. Again, the watering can is carried in my caravan anyway, for filling the toilet flush tank.
You can never have too many pegs! Count how many you need, then buy twice as many at least! Inevitably some bend/break, some 'disappear', and if doing the multiple peg per anchor point you'll use more anyway. If you only have the 'correct' number, you'll be short!
I have a deep suspicion of plastic pegs after the standard supplied plastic pegs with an Outwell tent, supposed to be high quality and up to the task on any surface, but I found them to be disastrously inadequate, most bent on anything but softest ground! The Peggy Pegs aren't cheap, so not keen to experiment with them myself - someone else can try and 'may' convince me of their worth.
I'm happy with my rock pegs and 'techniques' which seem to serve me well, so not looking to solve problems I don't have, but always interested in seeing other potential options.
I use long screws with penny washers on hardstandings or hard ground, hammer them in screw them out I've been doing this for years. The occasional bent screw is substantially less than the number of rock pegs that bent.
I used the screw-in pegs and battery drill option when I put up an awning, but with no longer having a dog we haven't used one lately. I have no idea what "brand" our screw-in pegs are, I just bought some off ebay but they were fine. We don't use hardstandings if we can help it though, especially with an awning. We much prefer grass sites where we can set our caravan up any way round we like. But then we don't use the caravan when the weather is likely to be at its worst, and booking last minute as we do, we can choose to go somewhere the weather is predicted to be best or not to go at all until another time. Handy being retired.
My favourite pitch at my favourite site, namely Birchwood Tourist Park near Wareham in Dorset, has very hard ground underneath the grass, and I bought a set of plastic Peggy Pegs, a combination of long and short ones which I found very useful.
I also bought some very long aluminium Peggy Pegs for my wind-out awning on a hardstanding pitch about 3 years ago and they worked well.
However, a drill is definitely required.
I would advise having a look at their videos as one of them advised using different torque for different types of grounds which makes sense.
I have never tethered my dog on a hard-standing pitch using my Delta dog tether, only on grass. Although I have stainless steel hook pegs which are much better than the hook pegs that usually come with a tent/awning/etc., I doubt I would be able to bash them into the hard ground to get a good enough grip for the Delta dog tether.
I have a tethering ring for the dog next to the retractable step on the van under the van door which works well when used with a 2m or so twisted stainless steel rope cable with a trigger clasp at one end that I made myself, after finding ready made ones bought from Amazon would break when the dog lurched forward to greet passing dogs during one trip, DOH! And they were sold as 'stage light safety cable', yeah right!
I also have a set of Blue Diamond Screw Peg Pro for hard-standing pitch and they worked well too.
It looks like Peggy Peg makes an aluminium Dog Stake which could be of interest to the OP.
I found putting up a windbreak on a hardstanding pitch with the screw in pegs very laborious, hence I don't usually bother.
The new canopy type awning that I bought recently and failed to put up successfully thanks to Storm Amy, would probably be used on grass side of a pitch and not on the hardstanding. Have to wait and try putting it up again probably next year now.
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We too are of an age when pegging out, has become painful, purchased a starter kit of Peggy Pegs, I must say it was a lot easier for us, used on both grass & hardstanding, and yes a battery drill is required, I did not have to spend a day resting up after awning peg out, and we only use a midi awning now, we are pleased with them so far, only time will tell.
I had a look at our screw-in pegs earlier and they are Blue Diamond. Aldi sell a fair bit of Blue Diamond stuff. The toilet fluid and the step I bought from them are both Blue Diamond branded. I got my pegs off ebay though, it must have been out of season for Aldi.
Quote: Originally posted by SmedmorDCH on 19/10/2025
We too are of an age when pegging out, has become painful, purchased a starter kit of Peggy Pegs, I must say it was a lot easier for us, used on both grass & hardstanding, and yes a battery drill is required, I did not have to spend a day resting up after awning peg out, and we only use a midi awning now, we are pleased with them so far, only time will tell.
Useful to hear of first hand experience, thank you.
So can you just use the normal orange pegs on hardstanding, or do you need the aluminium ones?
The battery drill is no problem as we use one to raise/lower the caravan steadies anyway.
Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 19/10/2025
I had a look at our screw-in pegs earlier and they are Blue Diamond. Aldi sell a fair bit of Blue Diamond stuff. The toilet fluid and the step I bought from them are both Blue Diamond branded. I got my pegs off ebay though, it must have been out of season for Aldi.
Morning Bofs, The starter kit comes with a masonry bit which I did use on very hard compacted hardstanding, but the hard plastic pegs went in well and held, I did also purchase the feet for the bottom of my awning poles which made stability of the poles much better. hope this helps, its giving us a bit longer time caravaning.
Quote: Originally posted by SmedmorDCH on 20/10/2025
Morning Bofs, The starter kit comes with a masonry bit which I did use on very hard compacted hardstanding, but the hard plastic pegs went in well and held, I did also purchase the feet for the bottom of my awning poles which made stability of the poles much better. hope this helps, its giving us a bit longer time caravaning.
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