Thread: Tipi hot tenting serious tent pegs

So I have just finally gotten around to putting up my new Kifaru 6 man tipi.
Its mainly going to be a base camp for fly in tahr trips and also for winter use on remote multi week trips.
The whole thing with pegs and aluminium pole is 4 kg
Full stand up inside.
Intended to be heated by the folding tent stove. keeps it warm and dries out gear and does the bulk of the cooking. As long as you are close to a beech forest you should be good for fuel.





I'm pretty impressed with the quality. Kifaru are the most expensive for a reason I guess.

Realistically its a 3 man base camp for winter use.
2 men and a dog and it will be a palace with the fire and plenty of storage.

Doorways at both ends. Nice double ended zips and little vent openers at the top to let out the day time heat.



A heat resistant stove jack for the stove chimney and a weather seal to roll down over it when not in use.





Full internal liners can be fitted for winter use. Reduces condensation and also traps 50mm of air to slightly increase the insulation value.
Cloths line hangs around the inside top



These are used floor less because of the fire and firewood etc.

I have a helinox 1kg camp stretcher and helinox 1 camp chairs so it will be pretty cozy in there and not sitting or sleeping on the ground should make it nice for extended winter use.

So I set it up on my lawn and the 30 plastic pegs that come standard with it from Kifaru are a total joke.
Great pegs as far a plastic pegs go.
But where I see myself using this I'm going to need some seriously decent pegs that can be driven into heavy rocky shingle river flats etc
But not your normal MSR needle type ones.
Sort of an ultralight needle peg on steriods

So suggestions please for proper heavy duty but not heavy weight pegs ??
Happy to make some myself if someone can show me what works.

Sorry about the last 4 sideways images

Alloy angle? Someone will be able to advise the harder grade to ask for

I’ve used home made steel angle iron pegs on big tents

GET /aquire/buy/find/half hitch S/S gambles from freezing works...... spend hours on a BIG vice straightening them out and bending one end around.....them suckers break rocks or shift them and no way will they re bend on you.
the other really good one and not so heavy is old tines off hay rake cut down to length...being a spring steel of some sort they also will go in anywhere and being way thinner are light.
even if you only have say 2 of the heavy duty hole smackers you can punch hole in,remove peg and replace with other not so potent model,keeping your 2 big suckers for place most needed. thats what we used to do at waitaki lakes with big canvas tents.

Ok
Will look at the hay rake tine option
As have mate thats an ag contractor and there will be hundreds somewhere because he never throws anything away

perfect......he will have a drum full somewhere.