Setting tent anchors question.

[BLACKFINTURKEY]

Does anyone have experience setting tent stakes in packed base? Looking for ideas beside sand bags and weights.

[Ironman]

Rebar stakes? 5 gallon buckets full of water?

[WhiplashTX]

Tent stakes are usually crap, go to the hardware store and get the big nails they refer to as spikes. They are 3/8" diameter and 10-12" long.

[Robert]

You will need a special tool known as a 12lb Sledgehammer and 7/8 sucker rod cut around 20" long. It will be a blast call your friends over to help. The offer of free beer will usually work to get them there.

[Thumper]

Car door handle, well maybe not.

Hunter at Aransas thought his wife had already gone to town for breakfast with others in their hunting party. She had put up a small tent to sleep and guess where she anchored it, yep, drug her about 100 yards before other hunters stopped him. She was pretty ******....

[cattlelackranch]

Car door handle, well maybe not.

Hunter at aransas thought his wife had already gone to town for breakfast with others in their hunting party. She put up a small tent to sleep and guess where she anchored it, yep, drug her about 100 yards before other hunters stopped him. She was pretty ******....

Lmbo!!!!

[Ironman]

Car door handle, well maybe not.

Hunter at aransas thought his wife had already gone to town for breakfast with others in their hunting party. She put up a small tent to sleep and guess where she anchored it, yep, drug her about 100 yards before other hunters stopped him. She was pretty ******....

Talk about a rude awakening.

[tradtiger]

x2 on 10-12" nail/spikes. Can pound in with a 3-4 lb. drilling hammer. At the beach, I use short (3-foot) green metal stamped fence posts; set at a little back-angle and hammer in past the bottom flange (also like to use a nut/bolt/washer combination about two thirds of the way up the post to loop the rope around as an anchor). Use tautline hitches on the ropes. One of my favorite all-time knots.

[Rick]

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