Awnings on hardstanding

My mistake🤣🤣

Thankyou all for your help. Something to think about.

'Rock' pegs are good as are rebar pegs - we have a few different types to suit the ground. 

Rock pegs, the ones with the spiral on the shaft, (not really a thread), 3lb lump hammer, and titanium thumbs!!

Best not to hit your thumb ..... 😉

Like most hobbies David, there’s a tendency to start out with the cheap and cheerful solution, then progressively buy better and better. Most awnings come with a bag of toy town pegs, which are best left at home. Bigger, thicker pegs come next, including some made of plastic. Skip the plastic ones, try the thicker steel ones, watch them bend, then go out and buy some rock pegs. These do work, with the occasional bend. Anyone who tells you how easy they are to remove, is either a weight lifter or a lot less experienced with tricky bases than we are. Ultimately, when you are tired of finding pegging in and out to be time consuming and hard work, you’ll look at an upgrade. This is the point where you make your most expensive purchase yet, and buy full size, steel, screw in pegs and a decent battery drill. OR save the interim money and learning curve by buying the above screw pegs from the start.

To clarify - many bases, but not all, will take rock pegs easily. In my view, the effort required to bend a rock peg is too much. And we’ve had plenty of bends over the years. All bases will succumb to steel screw pegs. For the hardest of all basis, you will benefit from hitting screw pegs part way in, to help the screw take when you drill. In every case, removal with a drill is much quicker and easier than pulling/ levering/ using fulcrums etc.

I have some of these too.  Went to Conkers C&CC site over the May Day BH.  The hardstandings here are super-hard and the screw pegs were as useless as a chocolate fireguard.  We had to resort to ordinary steel pegs and the trusty lump hammer!

David

That's why I said you can bash them in as well, best of both worlds then as you can just unscrew them with the cordless when packing up.

My approach is if they don't go in on the first or second attempt then out comes special tool #Hickory 2LB. 

They have not failed me yet and are a lot cheaper than buying those sets of 12 or so that come in a little case.

if you find it hard to knock the pegs in do what I do get the wife to do it

I have the cordless drill and the wife already so i'm well on the way ! All I need now is the pegs.