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02 Sep 2019 @ 12:41:59 pm
I am experiencing that more often than not one ends up on a camping site where the ground is so hard that you battle to get the tent pegs into the ground. The past weekend we camped at Bass Lake and it was the hardest soil that I had even had to try and get tent pegs into. I always thought Kruger Park had hard ground, but boy!
I am seriously considering buying a cordless impact drill to drill into the hard ground where one wants to insert the tent pegs. Can those who have tried and tested this option please share their experience with regards to size/power of drill that has sufficient torque. And what diameter holes they drill for say, 5mm pegs?
02 Sep 2019 @ 13:31:20 pm
I hear you. I have been lucky the last few years by not getting it that bad. That said it will be well worth it to see what " the old hands" have to say and type of solutions they have.
02 Sep 2019 @ 13:37:04 pm
750w electric hammer drill and 6 X 300 masonary bit do the trick for us.
02 Sep 2019 @ 14:08:43 pm
Thanks Flip. Do you use 5mm diameter pegs?
02 Sep 2019 @ 14:17:08 pm
I also had this problem in August in the Kruger. Just could not get that tent peg into the ground. With no drill available, I used my 10cm nails with washers welded at the end. The ones you buy and use for ground sheets. I found that if I cannot get a normal tent peg in, I use these nails. Before you hit the washer part flush with the ground, you turn the rope 2 or 3 times around the nail and then hit it into the ground. Interesting enough, the nail went into the ground fairly easy and worked just as well as the tent peg. Was also easier to remove than a normal tent peg.
02 Sep 2019 @ 14:21:22 pm
When the ground is hard I use short pegs - about 10 cm. They seem to go in without bending.
02 Sep 2019 @ 14:22:12 pm
Thanks Piet - good alternative!
02 Sep 2019 @ 14:31:47 pm
Het in KNP die Army penne gebruik.
02 Sep 2019 @ 14:39:32 pm
Het jy dalk 'n foto of skets van 'n army tent pen? (Ek prober nou terugdink aan my army dae (1981/82), maar kan regtig nie onthou hoe 'n army tent pen lyk nie!).
02 Sep 2019 @ 16:27:48 pm
Reinhard H wrote:
Daai ou groot dik penne wat lekker jou hand gesock het as jy hom verkeerd vang net die hammer.
Hulle is baie by military stores in Pta Wes.
02 Sep 2019 @ 16:32:04 pm
Anders neem 10mm rondbar en maak vir jou penne so 300mm lank, punt voor skins met 45hoek met n vin bo vir tou om te hak.
Slaan hulle skuins in met yster hammer.
Vra jou Buurman om hulle vir jou uit te trek weer.
02 Sep 2019 @ 18:01:48 pm
I use 5mm pegs with the 6mm drill
If you use a 5mm drill, you still battle to get them in. Just remember the 45 degrees angle.
02 Sep 2019 @ 18:18:54 pm
02 Sep 2019 @ 20:10:13 pm
I used to use a 6mm x 300mm masonry drill bit with the 5mm tent peg.
Now I use 8mm screws with a 13mm head. I lengthen the screw to about 120mm and use my cordless drill to screw them into the ground, similar to how Louvan does his with short pegs - it works well for me.
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:20:42 pm
Johan, do you first drill a hole before inserting the screws? Coach screws? And do you use a normal cordless drill or an impact drill?
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:29:45 pm
Reinhardt. As jy harde grond wil sien maak n draai by Klipdraai.
Cordless boor uit gebrand toe gebruik ons n SD boor en twee drill bits gebreek. Op die ou eiende het my toue met ses duim spykers vas geslaan. Lam gesukkel om dit weer uit te kry.
As jy daar n verkeerde stand kry is jy in vir n ding.
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:31:14 pm
No drilling beforehand. Not sure what coach screws are. I use a normal cordless drill, although I have found that my cordless does not have enough torque in some very hard ground, it is an 18v (~42Nm torque). Then I use my normal electric 810W drill.
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:31:16 pm
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:36:42 pm
Johan, coach screws are galvanised and have a hexagon head. They come in various lenths. I read about impact drill today which works well for driving in screws.
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:39:20 pm
Lyk hulle amper soos daai op regterkant van foto?
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:41:47 pm
Johan, coach screws are galvanised and have a hexagon head. They come in various lengths. I read about impact drill today which works well for driving in screws.
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:44:17 pm
02 Sep 2019 @ 21:45:08 pm
Nee Army is ook 3 hoek.
Daai wat ek sê hy moet maak met die lippie en en 45 skerp punt en dat die Buurman dit uit trek.
02 Sep 2019 @ 22:09:50 pm
That is the one as per Relaxed Camper’s photo.
02 Sep 2019 @ 22:13:17 pm
Ok, thank you Johan and Relaxed Camper.
03 Sep 2019 @ 07:43:07 am
Hi Reinhard, ek het ook baie gesukkel, maar vandat ek Maxcon se penne gekry het is die gesukkel verby. Probeer maar gerus. Dis vlekvrye staal en het 'n skerp punt soos 'n spyker. Dis verbasend hoe maklik hulle in die grond ingaan!
Ek gebruik glad nie 'n boor nie.
03 Sep 2019 @ 07:45:38 am
I made these out of 'T' bar, but ground the slots a bit deep, so if I really moer them, they bend at the slot.
03 Sep 2019 @ 07:45:42 am
Ek stem Leeu, maar die prys is hoog, om al die penne te vervang is duur.
03 Sep 2019 @ 07:57:37 am
Dis waar Johan, hang maar af van jou opset. Dis die geld werd gewees vir my. Dit sal nie maklik buig nie en jare hou. Ek hou my ou penne as ek die dag verkoop. Gaan koop direk by die fabriek.
03 Sep 2019 @ 08:08:06 am
Tentco vervaardig nou basies presies dieselfde penne.....weet nie wie is die goedkoopste nie
03 Sep 2019 @ 08:37:21 am
Dankie Leeu, Johan en Relaxed Camper. Sal hierdie bietjie ondersoek - dit behoort goedkoper as 'n boor te kos! Waar is Maxcon se fabriek?
03 Sep 2019 @ 08:39:47 am
Hi Reinhard, ek dink hulle is in Centurion, ek het myne by die Campworld gekoop, maar is baie goedkoper by Maxcon self.
03 Sep 2019 @ 08:41:07 am
Dankie Leeu. Lekker dag.
03 Sep 2019 @ 09:17:34 am
Die boor sukkel in klipperige grond, hoe meer jy boor, hoe meer val die gat gedoente toe.
Ek het die probleem by Satara opgetel.
Leeu se plan klink na n wenner.
03 Sep 2019 @ 10:36:45 am
Hulle is baie naby aan Chamberlain in Centurion
03 Sep 2019 @ 10:38:55 am
Die Maxcon penne lyk na die regte antwoord.
03 Sep 2019 @ 10:55:11 am
Baie dankie. Het reeds met Maxcons gepraat en sal draai daar gaan maak.
03 Sep 2019 @ 12:39:26 pm
If you can not drive peg into ground, then tie ropes onto big rock , or big wood , or even standing next to tree then onto tree, or even to bakkie bumber if not riding around
03 Sep 2019 @ 14:40:44 pm
I visited Maxcons and after witnessing how the peg is driven in between bricks (and doing one myself) and through concrete, I purchased their pegs. I am almost looking forward to hard soil now!☺
03 Sep 2019 @ 14:46:52 pm
Their pegs is actually good value for money. With their pegs I don't use storm nets or storm straps
03 Sep 2019 @ 15:08:15 pm
Ek is bly jy het reggekom, Reinhard, lekker dag!
03 Sep 2019 @ 16:28:29 pm
Baie dankie Nico. Groetnis
04 Sep 2019 @ 07:14:18 am
Reinard, baie bly jy het reggekom. Wat het jy toe betaal vir die penne? Het jy die hakkies toe saam gekoop? Ek sal seker self draai daar moet gaan maak.
04 Sep 2019 @ 07:31:33 am
Die 350mm land penne met die springs was R45 elk, en die korter penne (250mm) sonder springs (om die tent se onderkante vas te maak) was R30 elk.
04 Sep 2019 @ 07:41:56 am
Dan is hulle en Tentco se pryse basies dieselfde...
04 Sep 2019 @ 08:21:40 am
Ek sien Tenco se penne is "chromed steel" met SS "springs", Maxcon dink ek se penne is SS?
04 Sep 2019 @ 09:09:01 am
Ek sien hulle praat van "hardened spring steel", en hulle dat hulle ontwerp geregistreer is. So, indien Tentco nie by Maxcons koop nie, is dit 'n ander produk - my mening.
04 Sep 2019 @ 09:36:36 am
Seker maar Reinhard, Tenco lewer produkte van goeie gehalte. Dit hang maar net af watter verskaffer is die naaste om by te koop, petrol is duur.
04 Sep 2019 @ 11:25:44 am
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20 Sep 2019 @ 09:04:36 am
FRANCOIS PAARL wrote:
Die Army tent pen lyk soos die maar hy is baie groter. Hy is omtrent 35cm by 35cm.
Ek gebruik hulle om my silver seil mee te anker. Onthou daai army penne hou 'n redelike groot tent op sy plek.