Mobi Garden – tent pegs (25 cm, set of 4)

Spiral tent pegs of 25 cm in aluminium, set of 4. The thread bites into loose ground: in sand, soft forest floor or wet meadow a spiral holds where a straight pin pulls out.

Key specifications

• Length 25 cm.
• Material aluminium.
• Sold as: set of 4.
• The weight is not in our record and Mobi Garden no longer publishes it; we would rather leave it out than estimate.
• The thread bites into loose ground: in sand, soft forest floor or wet meadow a spiral holds where a straight pin pulls out.

What you use it for

The part that keeps your tent standing and that you think about least until it fails. The pegs that come with a tent are almost always the cheapest the maker could source; a handful of better ones on the windward side is the cheapest upgrade you can make to where you sleep. Always carry two to four more than your tent needs: you will lose one in the grass, and then you are standing there with half a tent.

Pitching and care

Drive them in at an angle, head leaning away from the tent, roughly 45 degrees — that way the guy line pulls the peg INTO the ground instead of out of it. In stony ground push and twist rather than hammer: striking through onto a stone is exactly how a peg bends. In the morning pull them with a loop of guy line or another peg as a hook, not by hauling on the fabric.