Blue Diamond Screw Tent Pegs - 20 pack, Purple, One Size

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The major issue with traditional pegs is that they can be a mission to pull out. Sure, you can use another peg to make it easier, or a peg removal tool, but sometimes you still struggle for a long time, and that’s not much fun. The screw in pegs simply unwind, and cause you no stress or issues at all. Light weight These probably take a similar amount of time to put in as a traditional peg, but its less effort, and the removal is where they are really valuable. We use screw in tent pegs to hold the shower and toilet tent down DIY screw in tent pegs Screw In Pegs are a galvanised 200mm-long shaft that accepts an included 5mm hexagonal driver, and both standard drills and impact drivers for great drilling forces. While looking a little agricultural, the cleverly designed wires loop and hook remains on the peg shaft and can be used to attach a guy rope, or to hold a tarp down directly to the ground. A great design idea sees the hook pointing downwards so as not to promote toe-stubbing. Although the Screw In Peg performed faultlessly in harder soils, the performance in anything softer is not much different to a standard peg. The finer flutes on the shaft clogged with dirt, rendering it of little use for ground-holding ability. Being a screw-in design, a hammer is replaced by a 12V drill, although a shifter, spanner, ratchet or a hand brace (like your caravan leg winder) can be used to insert and extract the pegs. If you’ve not used them before, know that everyone who has them raves about them, for good reason. Over the years, camping has become so much easier, and more comfortable, and little inventions like this go a long way to making this happen.

With my drill I just wind the appropriate peg into the ground and the job is secure until I need to move. The first pull was set to be pulling the peg out of the ground at a 45° angle, replicating use on a tarp, awning or tent – in effect, trying to bend the peg as well as pulling it free from the ground, and that’s a no-no for some of these pegs. We are very pleased with our Bunnings Screw in Pegs, and have recommended them to a heap of people already. The small clips that may be used in conjunction with the screw pegs are extremely handy for different applications.I have seen people make these up using long tek screws and washers welded to the top, but for the price that you can buy them I really don’t see why you would. I’ve snapped and bent a couple

I have tried using the common screw pegs on hard standing with little success. They just seem to spin like crazy but not grip and screw in. Blue Screw offers two plastic pegs at 310 and 580mm long. They are ideal in sandy environments with exceptional high-hold abilities. Blue Screw suggest its pegs work well in snow, sloppy mud and underwater too, which would be ideal for a boat mooring. The rope hook on top is large enough to attach multiple guy ropes. This product is aimed squarely at sand and soft soil use; forget trying to twist it into hard ground – it simply won’t work. As the Blue Screw is so flexible and long, you need to ensure it’s wound all the way in if pulling it at an angle, but works equally as well if screwed in line with the rope pull instead of at an angle, which could bend or twist the shaft beyond its limits. But maybe my insertion technique is wrong. I'm using a cordless drill and even at low speed they don't grip and screw in. So I ended up banging them in. Anyone found any pegs that screw in with minimum effort and hold? Or can someone explain how they manage with the common screw pegs?With our previous soft floor camper trailer, we had to put pegs into the corners of the tent as a minimum, and I had some big 12mm steel pegs that were about 400mm long. The main reason for the drill driven tent pegs being so good is they can be used in hard ground. This means crushed limestone, gravel or even compacted dirt is no issue at all. To install them, just use the drill to wind the screw into the ground, at a 45 degree angle, or a little more vertical and hook what you need onto them. You can manually install some of these, but it takes more time, and unless you are very limited with what you can take, a drill is well and truly worth throwing in.