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J
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
These a fairly big and light weight, they should work great in deep snow.
Keith R.Ulrich
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
Well made
Frank
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2025
They work quite well in the sand on the beach but bend easier than I'd hoped on harder ground. Still, much better than the flimsy plastic or thin medal rod type
Dozer
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2023
These are very good SAND stakes. They are not really designed for hard ground. They are only an 1/8' thick so they are not very strong vertically or will handle higher lateral loads like a steel stake will. They are also concave for a reason- to increase surface area and resistance in soft soil like sand or snow.You DO NOT put a tent guyline around the top of this stake. If you look at the holes in the stake the smaller diameter one at the lower end of the stake is were you put the guyline THROUGH the stake and then you bury the stake in the sand parallel to whatever you are attaching the guyline to. The shape allows you to push it into soft base material very easily but due to its shape and that its buried, it provides a very firm hold. I added carabiner clips to the end of my guyline so I can quickly connect it to attachment points on my tent. I used these stakes for a pop up beach tent which is why the guyline is so short. You can use this stake in the conventional manner but under only very light wind conditions and NOT into hard ground. Every complaint about this stake being too weak or bending is because the individuals were using it incorrectly in the wrong type of base. There are several good Utube videos showing the correct use of this stake.
Kydunk
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2023
While driving the stakes in the ground with a normal size hammer the tops of the stakes bend easily! Very soft alloy
SecurityDetail
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2023
These were PERFECT for holding taut lines for a tarp over a pet crate in my SW Florida yard, where the soil has the consistency of pure sand. (See my photo of a camo tarp over a pet crate for feeding feral cats outside in wet weather.) I first tried some long but narrow aluminum stakes, and even the lawn root system did not prevent them from pulling out through the ground lengthwise. These are nice and wide and PLENTY STRONG. I mostly pushed them in by hand, and used my foot to push them a couple final inches. Someone complained about them being weak and bending. I disagree; they're not "weak". Sure, you could bend them by hammering with a hard hammer if they hit a rock or hard root, but these stakes aren't designed for those conditions. I'd wondered whether a loop of cord would stay in place around the collar at the top of the stake ... or whether I should pass my cord through one of the holes. But, by angling them correctly (buried toe toward tent, collared head away from tent) and ensuring the concave surface faces the tent, the curved collar was fully sufficient to hold the loop of jute that I used to tie the corners of my tent.
ClienteDeMΓ©xicoπ²π½
Reviewed in Mexico on April 5, 2022
Se rayan fΓ‘cilmente y en menos de un mes le subieron casi el doble de precio de aproximadamente $350.00 MXN a mΓ‘s de $650.00 MXN no deberΓan de permitir jugar con los precios de esa manera.
Cath
Reviewed in Australia on January 31, 2020
Very wide pegs
WAG
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017
These worked far better than I was expecting. Used them on my tent at the beach. One of the days the wind was very strong, estimating maybe gusts of 25-30+ mph on a clear day. The beach was in galveston, tx so the sand packs very well there compared to the powder sand in around Panama City, FL areas but had I not used these stakes, that tent would have blown away like a big balloon. These stakes held the tent, and stayed in place very well. They drove in easily with my plastic mallet, and interestingly enough pulled up without much effort when I wanted to remove them, taking down the tent. I did drive them in at a slight angle which provided the needed leverage to hold the tent and the stake in place during the strong wind guts. The longer length really holds them in tight when the wind pulls on the tent.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015
Got these to complement some 10" Harbor Freight stakes. The HF stakes are for firm ground. These Cosmos work great in sand.I used them three ways in sand, and they held up find to sustained 20mph winds and gusts over 30mph. In fact, they did this even though I (unwisely) pitched the rather large REI Kingdom 6 tent crossways to the wind, rather than aerodynamically into the wind. I had to TRY to get the view :)The first way I used them was traditional: peg angled down into the sand; tent guy looped over the lip on the stake. This was fine for corners where the wet sand was close to the surface, and I could get the stake perpendicular to the guy line.The second way I used them was less traditional. I fed a bottom loop on the guy line through the small hole near the bottom of the stake, then pulled the loop over the stake. This is a bit hard on the line, but I'd rather replace line than have an anchor pull out. With the line in the small hole I'd cut a thin line in the sand along the expected path of the guy line, then shove the stake into the sand as far as I could, so the guy line was buried. This held up fine even with sand that was dry quite far down.The third way I used them was also traditional. On my large tent (rated for 6 people) there are intermediate tiedowns between the major anchor points near on the tent poles. These are very important to keep these parts of the fly from dripping condensation (or rain) on the tent body. For these I dug trenches about 6" deep and buried the stakes, with line looped as for the second stake. This took short bits of line, with the two loose ends coming up high enough to tie on the tabs on the fly.End result: tent stayed snugly guyed down with almost no day-to-day readjustment of the tie points.I wonder how my tent would do in snow? It would almost be worth it to try, just to see if the stakes work as well in snow as sand!BTW: I think having these be 12x1.38" instead of 9x1" (which is typical of other similar LOOKING stakes) makes a BIG difference! Having over 16 square inches in the sand is much better than just having 9!
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