Comments on: Quick Tip: Tent stakes in hard ground

By: Can trailer tents be stored outside? – Maries skolblogg

Can trailer tents be stored outside? – Maries skolblogg — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:33:05 +0000

[…] Fler objekt … […]

By: Can You Pitch a Tent on Gravel? Yes! Here’s How – Tent Advice

Can You Pitch a Tent on Gravel? Yes! Here’s How – Tent Advice — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 20:31:33 +0000

[…] PMags says you should wet the ground with water wherever you’re driving the stakes or pegs. Don’t use too much water or the soil will be loose and muddy, but a little bit of water will make it easier for the hammer to push the stakes through the grommets and into the ground. […]

By: doug k

doug k — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:19:30 +0000

when we had kids and started to do more car camping than backpacking, I settled on a nice big hammer, and a bag of Coghlan’s 10″ nail pegs.. http://goo.gl/kxoFXI
Haven’t bent one yet..

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:47:15 +0000

In reply to Another Kevin. Never had that problemy trutfully. The stakes in use have loops around during them and easy enough to extract. At least for me, I also do not use so much, ah, liquid the ground is soaked..just enough to loosen the dirt.

By: Another Kevin

Another Kevin — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:58:23 +0000

In reply to Dogwood. One time that I tried that, a porcupine got attracted to the salt. Not only did he dig up the ground and loosen the stake, but he made off with my skivvies that were in the tent vestibule. Porcupines love salt. We need a followup on how to get the stake out again when whatever liquid you used freezes around it.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:34:37 +0000

I’ve started using aluminum gutter spikes for stakes. They are 1/4″ diameter, 7 inches long, weigh 12 grams each and cost $0.30 each. I dull the points with a hammer so that they don’t poke through the stake bag. They do bend, but can be straightened with a BAR. I’m thinking about cutting some of them to 4″ to save a bit of weight. I’d use the long ones for my main guys and the short ones for edges. They should work fairly well in hard ground.

By: Dogwood

Dogwood — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:11:26 +0000

Truth be told, when I was at campsites alone, twice that I can remember, and that I’ll confess to, without water on hard compacted ground with no BARs around to drive in stakes, yes I did soften the ground to drive in the stakes with only water, yellow water, I had on, umm in hand.