No more back ache!

[Judie Surridge]

OK, so my knees creak, bending down and getting up is not the gentle yoga I'm used to, but for some unfathomable reason I was persuaded to uproot the awning pegs when we were preparing to travel.. The reason was soon apparent! With a flourish my partner presented me with an amazing sturdy peg puller he had designed and made, and suggested I tried it out using one hand only and not a kneeling mat in sight.
The result was amazing. No stress, no strain and no dirty kneecaps on my jeans. I gently prised the peg from the gravel using only one hand as directed, and in no time all the pegs were in the bag and I still had enough energy to put the kettle on.
Wonderful partner thinks we should go into business and make our fortune making this gadget. Great idea! He toils away and I plan how to spend the money....

 

[otherclive]

OK, so my knees creak, bending down and getting up is not the gentle yoga I'm used to, but for some unfathomable reason I was persuaded to uproot the awning pegs when we were preparing to travel.. The reason was soon apparent! With a flourish my partner presented me with an amazing sturdy peg puller he had designed and made, and suggested I tried it out using one hand only and not a kneeling mat in sight.
The result was amazing. No stress, no strain and no dirty kneecaps on my jeans. I gently prised the peg from the gravel using only one hand as directed, and in no time all the pegs were in the bag and I still had enough energy to put the kettle on.
Wonderful partner thinks we should go into business and make our fortune making this gadget. Great idea! He toils away and I plan how to spend the money....

Good idea. I used to use a claw hammer which lived in my toolbag; same principle.

 

[Buckman]

I thought that most people were using screw pegs and their drill? For several years we have been using that combination and it works for us as we find hammering pegs in can be painful at times. However we do have a claw hammer in the car for the odd time when it is necessary to hammer in a peg.

 

[Beachball]

OK, so my knees creak, bending down and getting up is not the gentle yoga I'm used to, but for some unfathomable reason I was persuaded to uproot the awning pegs when we were preparing to travel.. The reason was soon apparent! With a flourish my partner presented me with an amazing sturdy peg puller he had designed and made, and suggested I tried it out using one hand only and not a kneeling mat in sight.
The result was amazing. No stress, no strain and no dirty kneecaps on my jeans. I gently prised the peg from the gravel using only one hand as directed, and in no time all the pegs were in the bag and I still had enough energy to put the kettle on.
Wonderful partner thinks we should go into business and make our fortune making this gadget. Great idea! He toils away and I plan how to spend the money....

Great idea but we brought higear King size tent peg extractor it stay in awning bag .

 

[Mel]

Looks like a great peg puller. Your partner has ingenuously and thoughtfully designed a tool so that you and not him are doing the peg pulling 🤔😀
(BTW you are pulling with a bent back, please look out for your lower back.)
Mel

 

[JTQ]

(BTW you are pulling with a bent back, please look out for your lower back.)

Yes, it seems to fail on addressing at least one cause of back ache, save ending up with wet knees.

Probably here to my shame with purists, but they are an old pair, I use with good effect a pair of basic wire stripping piers on the wire rock pegs I frequently use.
These clearly allow the pull function but also usefully to apply that often-needed twisting action to get them to initially shift, but best of all, they don't risk breaking the welded cross bar off.
This sort of generic piers LINK

 

[trevormonty]

I've started using screw in ones, work great with battery drill. Still think there is case for some heavy duty nail in types show the above post.

 

[GaryB]

I have tried the screw-in type but couldn't get on with them, they just seemed to spin in the first 1/2" of ground without actually screwing in any further. I have now resorted to using the conventional hammer-in type with plastic hooks but I do resharpen them a couple of times a year which helps no-end. I always thought using a cross-bow to fire them in would be a good idea but I suspect wandering around a caravan site with one of those in-hand would end very badly.......

 

[Buckman]

I've started using screw in ones, work great with battery drill. Still think there is case for some heavy duty nail in types show the above post.

We carry four of these with us and keep them in the spare wheel well in the car. See HERE.

 

[Buckman]

I have tried the screw-in type but couldn't get on with them, they just seemed to spin in the first 1/2" of ground without actually screwing in any further. I have now resorted to using the conventional hammer-in type with plastic hooks but I do resharpen them a couple of times a year which helps no-end. I always thought using a cross-bow to fire them in would be a good idea but I suspect wandering around a caravan site with one of those in-hand would end very badly.......

We bought 50 coach screws from Screwfix plus washers. Cost was under £10. and better than the so called expensive ones for awnings. Plus they seem to be longer. As they are metal you can hammer them in if on a "bad" hard standing.

 

[otherclive]

We carry four of these with us and keep them in the spare wheel well in the car. See HERE.

I couldn’t use those as they would bring back bad memories from when I worked in Cardiff GKN steelworks on the reinforcing bar line. Took my thumb away as the guillotine came down😢
So I had smooth versions in the caravan. 😂

 

[Dustydog]

Just love diy home answers to problems. Well done. How about using a longer pole to save the back?

 

[Judie Surridge]

Loved all the responses. Like to clear up a couple of points.
Bad back? The peg puller is so easy that there is no strain at all whilst using it.
Its claw fingers are wider than a claw hammer and will wrap round any peg of any size.
It is especially effective when pegs are in hard ground, essential on hard standing.
Having tested different models we found the length is the optimum size for the operation

 

[Judie Surridge]

First prototype. Handle too short but ideal claw width

 

[trevormonty]

Watch youtube ideo on Australian pegging down his awning in outback. Battery hammer drill for hole, then used impact driver for screwing peg in. If awning didn't survive Cyclone it wasn't because pegs pulled.

 

[Buckman]

Watch youtube ideo on Australian pegging down his awning in outback. Battery hammer drill for hole, then used impact driver for screwing peg in. If awning didn't survive Cyclone it wasn't because pegs pulled.

On CAMC hard standings on more than one occasion we have use a masonry bit to drill a hole first and then use the screw pegs as even good quality rock pegs would not hammer in!

 

[Raywood]

We used to use another peg to pull them up but that may work better. We gave up with the awning a bit back as with two of us we really did not need he extra room.

 

[JTQ]

We used to use another peg to pull them up but that may work better. We gave up with the awning a bit back as with two of us we really did not need he extra room.

In our case an awning is not so much "extra room" as a buffer to the outside, be that providing shade, protection from rain, or wind, and even combinations of them at the same time.
Plus "coming" from tent camping even now 60 years on there is something we "like" about being under "canvas", that caravanning simply for us would not be the same without.
Given, awnings can be a hassle, but one even still I take onboard, I just like however to be left alone to erect and take it down, only asking for help sometimes with the "rolling up" "bagging up" bits. Best by far my other half or anybody else concentrates on making a good coffee for me.
As another would say, "to each his own".

 

[trevormonty]

We used to use another peg to pull them up but that may work better. We gave up with the awning a bit back as with two of us we really did not need he extra room.

We've small 2berth so porch awning gives us extra storage, especially useful coming and going in rain. Only put it up if staying for 2 or more nights.

 

[Raywood]

I know I am going against the tide but having left the porch at home we found we did not miss it.