Hard pitches!!

[Slowtow]

Is it just me? Even the impact driver with rock screws have struggled to break through the substance they put down. We've only chosen a hard pitch because they're reasonably nice and level.
Cheers! ST.

 

[Buckman]

You are not alone. I now carry a masonry bit in the car for just such occasions.

 

[GaryB]

The standard seems to vary from site to site, I find the worst are those that have large stones in them and heavily compacted. I just persevere with decent pegs, a lump hammer, determination and a bad temper!

 

[Mr Grumpy]

One of the reasons we prefer grass pitches.

On the odd occasion we find ourselves on hard standing the awning tends to stay in its bag.

 

[Paullus1959]

I stayed on a site near Tideswell in the Peak District and I ruined nine smooth steel rock pegs when trying to extract them! They went in easy enough but it was like trying to pull a large nail out of a plank of wood by hand. I had to bash them sideways to get them loose enough to pull out.
On a site in Harlech the 4” dressing of limestone chipping over sand gave no purchase and the pegs pulled straight out when the wind picked up.
The hard-standing pitches at the lovely CCC site in Chertsey also proved problematic. The dressing comprised flint chippings which almost punctured one of the air beams of my air awning. Fortunately I had some squares of butyl rubber with me which I placed under the feet of the beams to protect them.
In Northumberland the caravan was parked on a concrete pad but this meant you couldn’t peg the rear of the awning down. I had to tie it down with cords wrapped around the corner steadies.
I‘m currently in France and the pitch is thoroughly compacted sand which is on a par with grass which is my favourite.
So, yes pitch types vary hugely from site to site from excellent to nigh on useless.

 

[Arethusa]

I can’t get them in to start with!! Just had jockey wheel changed cos motor mover hates the rocks and slate - thought I was just being feeble. Often find remains of pegs with plastic head intact embedded in stones w here previous campers have given up extraction!!

 

[audiorob]

After my outing in June getting the pegs out of grass was a trial! Steel pegs with a small lump hammer to get them in. Broke one of those plastic topped pullers - and the plastic tops to several of the pegs. I think I needed a substantial claw hammer but borrowed an all metal puller and hoped it didn’t just bend in use! Fortunately you are able to replace the peg tops - just order for the diameter of the peg and also bought myself a puller of similar ilk so see how that fares next time the ground is rock solid!

 

[Beachball]

We use a heavy hammer to bang our pegs on our porch awning last time when we had our caravan

 

[Dustydog]

The Woosies stayed at Rivendale Ashbourne. Set in an old quarry an SDS drill was mandatory. The site is another which has ditched Tourers in favour of Lodges