Tent Pegs & Stakes | Wild Camping Tent Peg Selection | V Peg vs Y Peg Titanium and DAC Tent Pegs 

The double pegging was a new one on me, but makes so much sense. Will be shopping for a handfull of extra pegs imminently. Many thanks for another great video.

The quality of this content is absurdly high, many thanks. Also, nice coat :)

Great video. Never seen the double pegging before great idea. Shows you can still learn new techniques after 50 years of camping

I appreciate the work that goes into making these videos. Highly informative while also rather amusing - great stuff! Thanks very much.

Outstanding video! I learned a ton of information in a single example. You obviously put a lot of effort and planning into your vids and we are the benefactors. I also love the word-play and banter with your producer - adds a light- hearted touch. Your shepherd is a gorgeous well trained pup. Many thanks from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. ⛺️⛰🪓🇺🇸

I bought extra pegs after seeing your back stake method in a previous video; this experiment definitely proves it is worth doing that in very high winds.

Interesting demo! Nice Paramo Jacket 👍🏻 by the way!

As ever, a fantastic video. Husband and I are just starting out in hillwalking and long distance and wanting to make sure we are educated and well informed about wild camping practices and the technical aspects. We live in Scotland so the by laws are different, nonetheless your channel has become one of our favourites and you're seen as a bit of a guru in our house. Thanks again!

Hi Seamus. I’ve watched all your videos. IMO the best content on this subject matter on RU-vid. Informative and interesting in equal measure. So good I frequently revisit them for reference. Just watching this again as I had “peg issues” mid week. Appreciate your efforts and detail in putting this series of videos together. Hope you and Petra are well. Best. Gary

Thanks! Very informative video, I really needed this because I camp in very windy conditions at times. Love your dog, I camp with a whippet and a pit bull.

Really great video and advice buddy, especially on the double staking👍. Oh and lol on the clothes pegs 🤣 Thanks for sharing.

Once again, super video. I laughed so much at your funny introduction! Excellent editing and camera work too. You made a boring topic interesting. Thank you for your honesty, non bias and tips etc.

Enjoyable as always, keep up the good work in these uncampable times😀👍

This has been very useful. I had been wondering about pegs for a while but know one really puts out anything on them in this way. I fully appreciate this video as with many others.

Excellent video learned a lot , cheers

Amazing! Thank you so much for providing us with the results of this well set up experiment :)

Nice one Shamus. As others have said, really informative, plus entertaining. Please upload something again soon buddy!

Great stuff Shamus, interesting, thought provoking and funny. Thank you for the humour, a much needed element at the moment.

Superb Seamus. Love it!

So watchable because of the content and production values. Very refreshing

Another excellent film Shamus. I too have always used my foot to push the pegs down. ATB Jiffy 👍🏻

This couple is the sweetest outdoor duo out there in the UK and Mr Shamus is one of the most experienced outdoor man I ever heard! 😄

Excellent video Shamus, really useful.

Great video Shamas. Very well presented. 🐕 ATB-Phill 🙏

Boom tingz! I just love your content buddy. You're very quickly becoming my favourite outdoor gear/activities enthusiast.

Live the old school down to earth testing thanks from this old school explorer. Hugs

Another great informative video, thanks.

Dear oh dear. I've been waiting for a proper video on pegs. And you nailed it. Literally. Love the bigger scales. Shades of sheriff Brody. You earned yourself a snifter of Shackleton malt after that. Ian

Great advice on pegs.

Having just asked you about new content I realised I’ve not watched this one. So that was a nice surprise. Another high quality video Shamus. Well done.👍

Hi Shamus, another useful video thanks. You was certainly giving the double stake some welly. As always thanks for sharing your knowledge 😊👍🏻

Very informative and learnt a lot watching this evening. Your knowledge and way of presenting is very good. Best wishes to you and Petra. Michael Ps: ordered some meals from Base camp foods today, Chicken Tikka and Rice and.....it had to be Apple Crunch !! Great service !

Loved the video as awlays, great work. I think The hilleberg Y pegs are my fav :)

Great Vid shamus really interesting as always and useful tips especially the back stake I have seen your video when you did this in High winds 👍

Thankyou. Learned a lot from that

History last time science this time you're a man of many talents Shamus, 👍👌🐾🐾🐺

very informative and as others have said would not venture out without 4 delta pegs in my bag, they are absolutely brilliant in soft soil, & got me out of a few tricky situations over the years, Highly recommended.

Thanks Shamus. Another very interesting video on a topic that many of us probably take for granted in the form of shove the peg in the ground and hope for the best! I particularly like the Y pegs and they have kept my 4 season tent in situ on a few wild nights. However, I always do my best to apply the first principle of survival (Protection) and try to hide my tent behind a large rock or outcrop. 😄. looking forward to the next 'Essentials' video. ATVB Graham

Excellent video and some good food for thought! I have seen you back staking in other videos and until then never seen it before but if I find myself in excessive winds I will have another tool in the box to help deal with it.. thank you 👍

Yet another fantastic and informative video. I saw you using 2 begs in another video I understand how effective that can be and as I always carry extra pegs its something I will be doing in the future. Its got to be better than getting out my lovely warm sleeping bag at 3am!!!

Very informative Shamus great video 👍

This is absolute gold!!! ! Guy lines and pegs, so vital yet not in the forefront of many campers and manufacturers minds alike. I need to reconsider what I’m doing armed with some of that info......especially the backstake with tube and peg. Delta thoroughly recommended, been using them for a while now for guying. Those TN laser toothpicks are an affront. Abysmal nonsense in pursuit of weight. Tremendous vid again 👍👍👍👍

This made me rethink my setup for a thu hike . Thank you .

Inspirational, I've been camping for sixty years and never seen that double peg idea before, going to look on the internet for some Big Sky pegs, thanks.

Many thanks for your explanations, of a usually dull subject LOL Who knew scales now have to be carried as well!!

A rule of thumb for double staking that I read is, the distance between stakes be equal to one-third the depth of the stakes in the ground. Brilliant content Shamus.

a very useful demo . I use y pegs for my 4 main guy lines & aluminium shepard type for the rest. my laser comp tooth picks have never seen daylight lol. your presentation is very professional & easy to watch . cheers.

Great information.

I like my gold Easton pegs Shamus, very similar to those Big Sky pegs. Informative as always 👌

Great vid, I use vargo titanium pegs as my secondary peg for winter camps, with my Dac J stakes

This is a really interesting video Shamus, not (yet) owning a tent I had no idea pegs varied so much in their abilities.

Hi bud new to your videos, the content is spot on love the sights and petra is a quality camping partner

Really enjoyed this very informative video. Completely different from anything else I have seen online. Well done Shamus and Petra for your thoughts and effort thank you.. Maybe you could test fabric tear strength at some point by having a tug of war with Petra. She would enjoy that I am sure and we would get more of her in the video too..

You are a star, love your content and technique, you make it fun and that's the best way to learn. Brilliant! I've been wandering around for years and to me a peg was a peg. Never really knew their are so many, hay ho! Thanks for sharing and all the work you put into your videos, must take hours to edit. Atb, big thumbs up from me. Dave aka wackyswanderings. Hi Petra :-)

Shamus.....come back. We miss you.

Appreciated this. The ability of y pegs to shred cordage is pretty high. But the combo with the tube pegs (which I'd not heard of) looks like a super solution. I've not really encountered such conditions here (but on trips to the mountains around Nagano, the grimness has been severe sometimes).

Thanks very informative

one disadvantage with the MSR Groundhog style Ys - they will really hurt your foot if you tread on them. One went right through the bottom of a kid’s beach shoe.

Good informative video. But for me a set of Delta Ground Anchors and job done :) That would make for an interesting pull test. Atb

Very entertaining

Another great video shamus Unfortunately that looked like a bent hex peak peg to me 🤣 New pegs on the Christmas's list 👍

🤣🤣🤣👍😉love it great vid 👍

Great video !! Best jacket too any chance of a list of manufactures pegs

thank you i've learn a lot of thing ! great video +1 sub ! :D

Hi Shamus, I do love your adventures with Petra to some fantastic spots on Dartmoor, however, It would be fantastic if you gave the co-ordinates to the areas you visit. I know a few places in the area but have not as yet visited it all. Keep up the brilliant work.

Nice one

Hi Shamus, why no more videos? They were the best subject matter videos on RU-vid IMHO.

increíble, tan solo un poco de prueba y resultados magníficos. me encataria poder tener subtítulo en español si fuera posible eh aprendido mucho con solo la ilustracion. desde Argentina un abrazo Maestro

Fantastic content, never seen this before thanks for doing it. You should be really chuffed with yourself . Did I see in a previous video you put extra lines in as well on windy conditions?

Are those Mario pants Merino?😂 I’d pay for this content, after 35 years outdoors I’m both validating my knowledge and learning new tricks.

Great video, really useful. The backing up pegs feature was handy, I''ll try that. Out of interest, how many extra pegs do you usually carry (say for example if your tent had 10 anchor/pegging out points)? Interested to know as I take about half as much extra and not all the same type. Just in case I need to replace a broken peg or add extra guy out points.

Hound of the basket meals 👍👍❤️

Nice video, thank you for the advice and guidence. Perhaps you could (if you haven't already) do a video on cheaper Amazon products and see how they hold up to the branded items....

3/8 in dia x 18 in long rebar with loop welded on one end. Cot on angle at other end. Works great.

I use a bit of a mix of pegs; Vargo titanium shepherd hooks, some Alpkit V pegs but mostly I use Y pegs, I think from Camcleats. I have some Hilleberg Y pegs as well that came with the Soulo. Having a mix of pegs means I can usually get something in the ground and I’ve been lucky I’ve not had any snapped guy-lines, just the odd slightly bent peg. I have the Delta pegs but really only use them on a big family tent as they are a bit bulky. One thing I did with the shepherd hooks was put some red heat shrink tubing on the hook end so I could find them!

Another fascinating and interesting video Shamus. I carry the delta pegs as well as the standard supplied DAC tent pegs with my Soulo if the forecast suggest strong winds but have been trying to get some Big Sky International Tube Stakes for a while now here in UK to reduce pack volume....unfortunately even Big Sky's website in the USA don't appear to have them.

Well it's outdoors inspiration and you inspired me to make a video like this but with extra terrains. Have a look see Shamus and tell me what you think!

I personally use MSR groundhogs and have got Alpkits version of them too.

Double pegging could save you in a storm. Never heard of it before. Excellent review. You just missed the kilo pull test on the single titanium V peg ‘the right way around’. That’s what I use. Best lesson on tent pegs by a mile. Thanks.

I always carry a few extra delta pegs in my bag they I've found them very useful in loose peaty soil

Great stuff, really enjoy and learn from your channel. General question. I’ve noticed in one vid that you waded a river. Do you not worry about wet feet? I try my hardest to keep mine dry. Gorgex lined boots. Seal skins and gators sometimes. Anyway keep it up Petra keep him out of trouble.

Hello Shamus Another belter😁😁😁😁😁 Where do you buy the. I’m Sky pegs from? Can’t find on line

just watched all of your videos, and I love them. I am going to backpacking on a trail with high attitude （3500m ）and crazy wind storms and snow next month, but I only have that 3F floating cloud tent which you viewed previously. could you recommend me some tent Which are capable for that ?

really useful video Shamus! Had my robens tent fail on my on Friday due to wind. One guy rope snapped, then after fixing it and wind still battering the tent decided to abort the camp. Looking into getting some 22cm tube steaks but makes me concerned then that the tent fabric is then the weakest link in the chain. Do you have any insight/advice on this as to if it's better for the peg/guy to fail than them hold and result in a torn tent instead? Thanks.

where are the affiliate links to these pants? and can I get them in italian merino wool? Great videos as always, your real world tests and knowledge is what got me suscribed

evening shamus and petra .

I’ve just subscribed for your sense of humour, not watched the rest of the video. Similar ages with the same historical diet of Monty Python, Life of Brian, Carry On et al. 😀🥸👍 Having watched the rest of the video, got to say, good material, well explained and informative, I’ve been wanting to upgrade my pegs for a while now, but want sure which to go for.

Back staking also works well with large tents, so agreed. But I am very surprised you have not used Delta Pegs? The science behind them is simple but fantastically effective. Bit of an awkward shape to carry in a backpack but recently found someone who makes triangular... made to measure bags from Hilleberg Kerlon material, very good quality.

Very interesting Shamus, I had seen you back stake before in one of your videos and was impressed as I’d never considered doing it previously. Do you find length of guy lines has any bearing on their effectiveness in severe weather? Is long most effective or short better? Is there any optimum length in your experience?

I have some abs plastic screw thread pegs that are brilliant in really soft peaty soil where nothing else grips- it’s a really deep thread, so offers a hell of a lot of resistance to coming out, you screw them in like a normal screw, so they keep the soil structure intact, without breaking it up. A lot of my camping is in woodland where normal pegs come out with no force at all, so these are indispensable, albeit, they are very chunky so take up more room than a bag of normal ones.

I use the MSR ground hogs. Their light and I’ve never had any issues with them.

Everybody says don't use your foot to push in the pegs, and everybody uses their foot to push in the pegs anyway.

Hello Shamus I hope you and your family are well. I now am the proud owner of an MSR Hubba NX and hope to spend my first night on Dartmoor once my sleeping bag arrives. It comes with needle stakes so I thought I would buy some Y stakes to double peg if it's windy. Do you double stake every guyline?

I had a Y peg ruin a very expensive pair of boots as it sliced through the side as I walked passed one.

It's a guilty pleasure watching things like this. But by far the most balanced view, albeit that really you should have looked at 3-5 pegs of each design and taken an average. But since the lovely Petra was in the video I think I'll overlook that ; -). I think I'll be packing a few extra pegs with my Soulo should the wind look to warrant it. On that topic, in your experience is there really any value in using all 12 guys with the Soulo when two guys are going to one peg? I've only had my Soulo out one and it was calm, but my thought was to go down to six plus two guys, placing the two 'extra' guys on the windward side with their own pegs. As per others, the double pegging idea is new to me too, but a simple but effective solution.

I know I’m off subject but can you tell me the make an a possible supplier of your roll mat inflation pump. Cheers Shamus, great job your doing👍

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Terrific clear vid Shamus. Bit concerned that you lost one guy in 50mph winds, and almost another. Were they chafed already or was it all down to one night’s storm wear do you think?

All the pegs that bent took a higher load. I’d rather keep my tent in high winds than keep my pegs straight! Double pegging is awesome, reminds me of old school Royal Engineers stuff.

talking of the V-peg, wouldn't the way that you performed the test result in less chafing on the guy rope ?.. and on the subject of 'completely nadgered', when are you going to get around to testing depleted uranium tent pegs ?