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Post by MoonshineJustice on May 11, 2014 11:32:24 GMT -5
New to roo this year, and have read a few guides that recommend getting heavy duty tent stakes. Is this really necessary? I've camped for a lot of years (granted never roo) and it seems like this would be overkill.
Is there something I'm missing? Do you get by without these? Do you strongly recommend them?
Post by pondo ROCKS on May 11, 2014 11:41:22 GMT -5
The weather in Tenn. can be unpredictable. I have never used heavy duty stakes but strong winds can occur. Make sure you stake your tent/ez-up down very well and you should be fine. I have seen people's tents blowing down the road.
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New to roo this year, and have read a few guides that recommend getting heavy duty tent stakes. Is this really necessary? I've camped for a lot of years (granted never roo) and it seems like this would be overkill.
Is there something I'm missing? Do you get by without these? Do you strongly recommend them?
Get them. There were numerous EZ ups that were pinwheeling across the campground during that crazy wind last year. For a little over $1 each, you get to save your shade canopy and not smash the f°ck out of some random person's vehicle or campsite when a not-staked-down twisted ruin of cloth and metal is reclaimed by Gravity.
Get them. There were numerous EZ ups that were pinwheeling across the campground during that crazy wind last year. For a little over $1 each, you get to save your shade canopy and not smash the f°ck out of some random person's vehicle or campsite when a not-staked-down twisted ruin of cloth and metal is reclaimed by Gravity.
Point taken on better to be safe than sorry, but I'm curious to know if you think it was the type of stakes used? Or the staking technique?
I'm always surprised when I go camping with first time campers that they try and stake completely vertical (so that the stake pops out easily) rather than staking at an angle (where it resists the motion of popping out)
As long as you use metal stakes you should be fine. At CounterPoint this year the wind was so strong it broke the yellow plastic ones I had used. Had we not been sitting at the campsite at the time my canopy would have taken flight...
Get them. There were numerous EZ ups that were pinwheeling across the campground during that crazy wind last year. For a little over $1 each, you get to save your shade canopy and not smash the f°ck out of some random person's vehicle or campsite when a not-staked-down twisted ruin of cloth and metal is reclaimed by Gravity.
Point taken on better to be safe than sorry, but I'm curious to know if you think it was the type of stakes used? Or the staking technique?
I'm always surprised when I go camping with first time campers that they try and stake completely vertical (so that the stake pops out easily) rather than staking at an angle (where it resists the motion of popping out)
Ding ding ding, that's the answer right there.
I've also witnessed many people just staking in vertically. The key is to angle all of them inwards towards your tent, like you said.
There's no need to buy super heavy duty stakes. Just don't end up with those crappy plastic ones. Sometimes the ground can be hard, and good luck getting those stakes in the ground without breaking. I think that's where the "heavy duty" stake advice originated. And then as the years went on, if someone had a tent blow away, must have been the stakes!
Just use your normal metal stakes and stake properly, you'll be fine. A properly staked tent is more likely to collapse in a heavy wind then blow away.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of tents flying in the sky were either never staked down to begin with, or staked in vertically.
Along with the how to set up your wristband videos, Bonnaroo should also make some about how to stake out your tent/ez up. I would almost bet the ones flying down the road weren't staked or only had them directly in the feet of the poles. No guy lines properly angled out in different directions.
Fwiw walmart has 4 packs of red/orange metal stakes for $3. Seem pretty decent.
The low quality ones that come wtih cheap tents WILL bend. These are considerably more resistant
This is the problem I've had in the past, and it was with a coleman tent, not even a cheap one. My first Roo the ground was so hard my stakes keep bending.
Every year I pick up a couple packs of these because I'm always losing a stake or someone else will need them. The only thing is they are pretty thick so make sure they fit with whatever you use them for, canopy, tent, ect. For $2 a 4 pack though they are well worth it.
Post by Яoo-me-sidewayz on May 11, 2014 17:53:04 GMT -5
Wish I had the video of my tent going airborne in '05 seconds after taking the stakes out to pack it up. Shot straight up into the power lines and immediately back down into a barbed wire fence. Best part about it was that we didn't have to pack up the tent after that.
I like how the annotations say to keep on eye on the tent, but no mention of that giant canopy. I wonder how many cars got effed up from tents flying into them. I would not be laughing then...
This is pretty funny though. Also note that the close tent seems to not have any guy lines.
I've seen this a few times and every single time I makes me laugh hysterically!
We had our canopy tied to my car last year and staked (at an angle) in on all legs with those skinny metal ones that came with it. With that wind I was still nervous it was going to flip so I held on to the sides while I was sitting, like I alone was going to be able to save it..... But that was just my paranoia sinking in, it was fine.
Post by th3int3rn3t on May 11, 2014 23:44:26 GMT -5
i suggest digging a hole the size of the base of your tent that is about 42" deep (or at least below the frost line) then fill with some compacted limestone and pour a concrete footer. make sure to put the proper bracing and metal straps in the corners so that you can strapnail to them where your tent stakes would typically go. but this might not be good enough. you might just want to camp in a bomb shelter.
Bringing extra stakes and a rubber mallet is a great way to meet your neighbors. Even if they don't need them, they will appreciate the gesture add them anyways.
Hammer, rubber mallet or just a flat rock ,but something. Idiot last year bruised the heck out of his arch trying to stomp it in. His next quest was to find a crutch for the weekend to hobble around on.
