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Boydie

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Just a tip taken from long camping experience, tent pegs, the majority are far too flimsy and wont look at hard ground so toss them and visit your local car wreckers and obtain a dozen or so truck engine valves, nice round head to hammer and they will, short of solid rock, penetrate just about any surface.

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Or you could cut them out of existing branches around you and make them to your own lengths etc.

Look up Ray Mears on youtube-I'm sure you'll find something on there regarding making them, I do this all the time when I want some and they work well-Also doesn't matter if you leave them behind as they'll rot into the ground eventually so they're a greener version of leaving behind something that will take decades to rot away.

John

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Or you could cut them out of existing branches around you and make them to your own lengths etc.

Look up Ray Mears on youtube-I'm sure you'll find something on there regarding making them, I do this all the time when I want some and they work well-Also doesn't matter if you leave them behind as they'll rot into the ground eventually so they're a greener version of leaving behind something that will take decades to rot away.

John

Obviously never tried to hammer a peg into the ground around Coober Pedy :o :o

Martyn

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LMAO -- Bushie is quite right, our "deserts" while being sand in parts are for the most part solid, and I do mean solid !!!! normal tent pegs just bend and buckle and engine valves are the easy option, they are strong, have a good large surface to apply a FBH to them and are cheap (as in zero cost) to replace, simply visit your nearest wreaker or engine mechanic and you will find he has a box full of them to get rid of, I get mine from the local diesel truck place, Mack valves are huge ! I only lose them to fellow campers.

John, I dont leave them in the ground, I pull them out and take them with me for the next nights camp, the only stuff I leave in the ground is from our camp toilet, which has bio-degradable bags and then I look for a well used rabbit burrow and happily put sh*t on the little person I'm not that keen on -- revenge in kind for the destruction the little sods cause to the environment :hysterical: Leaving hard wooden tent pegs in the ground might seem to be very "greenie" but what about the poor guy who inadvertantly drives over or steps on one ???? I wonder what damage they could or would do to his tyre or foot if the wood is that hard and sharp it can be hammered into the ground, not a nice thought.

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Fairone Iain, But the majority of the time I'm under canvas so to speak the nearest anyone will come with a vehicle would be about 2KM's at least as I tend to go right into the woods out of the way and use my tarp(Hootchie to you being in Aus) etc. there, The ground of which the peg is pushed into is normally woodland with solid leaf litter type material making up the majority of the ground I go and use(normal type of UK forestry) and even if someone did trip over one I'd doubt they'd hurt them selves too much

John

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(Revert here to Aussie straine) dunno about a hoochy sport, 'ere in Oz we kip down in swags. Back to normal english, a swag is similar to a sleeping bag excepting it has a built in ground-sheet and foam rubber matress and is wrapped in water-proof canvass, quite bulky but easliy dropped into the back of your ute or 4by4 and can be set up in less than 30 seconds, just drop on the ground, unroll and get in and go to sleep --- easy as mate.

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Iain, I tend now to sleep in a hammock and under a tarp, I like the idea of a swag but unless I'm taking my 90 with me there seems no point as it'd be too damn bog for me to carry on my back

John

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Ahhh then you have a "matilda" - a rough lightweight bedding cover used by itinerant Australian workers during the great depression -- "I'll go a Waltzing Matilda" meaning to go walking over the country looking for work with your "Matilda" over your shoulder.

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yes, one of our better inventions, some of them can be a tad bulky if the truth is known but there is no better camp sleeping bed, If its raining you just pull over the outer canvass (or oiled cotton) sheet cover and go back to sleep dry and warm, if its hot, roll it out and sleep on top and under the stars

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