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. These are a great choice for use on all ground types, depending on the length of the peg. We would recommend that ‘V’ pegs should be used on the main pegging points i.e. four corners of your tent and main guyline/storm straps. We said it earlier, however, it’s super important. Always carry spare tent pegs – because you never know!

Peggy Peg can even supply long masonry bits to pre-drill holes into ridiculously hard ground. A combo tool can be used to help twist the pegs into the ground should your drill not do the job and there are purpose-designed anchor plates that accommodate up to seven separate pegs for extra ground-hugging force as well as slots to take awning legs. 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 pegshttps://www.toolstation.com/shop/Screws+%26+Fixings/d90/Coach+%26+Roof+Bolts/sd1670/Coach+Screw/p78511 No doubt there are a couple of best screw in tent pegs, but for us the Bunnings Whites option works just fine. Simple, easy to use and strong as Should you get a set of screw in pegs? 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 Made from Aluminium Alloy, the Big Dog screw in peg is 35cm long, and has a left aggressive thread, which allows the peg to secure awnings etc. in gravel, or soft ground.

If you’re pitching a tent on softer ground or you’re only taking a smaller type of tent with you (e.g. a 2 man tent), a mallet isn’t usually necessary.After several years of using these, I finally broke a couple. The first one snapped from too much torque on the drill, trying to go into seriously hard ground, and it basically just twisted the steel off. Aaron Schubert is a 4WD and camping nut, who's a qualified Maintenance Planner and Mechanical Fitter, and has extensive Industrial Maintenance experience.

A huge number of people travelling these days carry 18V drills, and winding a few tent pegs in and out is easy work. These can double up for winding the caravan or camper trailer legs down, repairs and maintenance on your gear and don’t take up much room. Not only that, but if your tent pegs aren’t quite up to the challenge, you may find yourself in a situation where your tent isn’t strong enough to withstand the elements, such as strong gusts of wind. 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. I have seen them successfully used but only as R2B suggests - by starting off with a hammer first. Pagination: Showing 1 - 10 of 36 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.Most pegs are hammered in, the advantage with the bolts above is that they don't bend and last forever, even when you get a bit enthusiastic with the hammer. We are very pleased with our Bunnings Screw in Pegs, and have recommended them to a heap of people already. 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. Peggy Peg offers many different lengths and diameters, as well as aluminium and UV reinforced fibreglass pegs. A great design feature is the rope clips that slot over the hex-shaped head onto the main shaft. The clip can be used anywhere on the shaft meaning the peg doesn’t have to be drilled all the way in to still allow a pull from ground level, which will reduce potential peg damage. Attaching to the clip is a guy rope ladder, which replaces the steel spring on most guy ropes.