to screw or not to screw

[plotter]

What are your experiences of screw in pegs,good or bad,which are best /worst how much is the drill adaptor?

 

[SirRogerFFS]

Hi Plotter not sure of this but I think the screw in pegs are just a ten mill socket no adaptor needed ,If Im wrong somebody will sure to come along ad correct me. Sir Roger

 

[Martin24]

We all like a good easy method for screwing but I go for the traditional walloping stick instead, with about 400 pegs of varying shapes designs and sizes I can't be bothered with something new fangled like them. I think the advantages are there with the product though.

 

[Surfer]

Don't buy the plastic ones. We bought metal ones with a large washer at the top and they work a treat.

 

[HenryB1]

We have both the Plastic and the metal screw pegs from Purple Line. The plastic are great on grass pitches (they take a 19mm socket so I use the same socket extender that I use with the drill for winding down the corner stays). The metal Purple Line pegs take a much smaller socket but I have never managed to use them on hardstanding pitches as the pitches seem to be constructed with hardcore under the surface that the pegs cannot penitrate.
HenryB

 

[graham_somersham]

Some of the screw pegs on sale are just simple coach bolts with a penny washer and a rubber grommet. M10 200mm coach bolts are about £2.60 for 10 from places such as Tool Station. They are fine on stony soil where it is possible to get a bit of a bite on the tread but as mentioned above they can be difficult to get into some hardstandings and areas of very rocky soil. The plastic screw in ones are about as useful as a chocolate fire guard on anything but soft soil. I do like the long steel pin pegs and combined with a lump hammer or a 20oz claw hammer they will penetrate most soil types but make sure they are the long versions as the short ones don't seem to go in far enough to grip.

 

[Gagakev]

Maybe also consider if you forget to charge your battery fully and it goes flat with half the pegs still in!

 

[plotter]

In that event I guess you would be screwed !!!! ;0)

 

[Dustydog]

Like Graham I have always used the 8" metal screwpegs with the blue plastic tops.
However trying to screw them into the ground is a waste of space. They get whacked in with the claw hammer and removed with the claw. Trying to unscrwew has never been very successfull.
I think I may have been better off buying the same length rock pegs although I do find the screwpegs blue plastic tops better.