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(More customer reviews)We have used these tent stakes for years, and we have to keep buying them because the green plastic heads break off.Maybe it is design feature to assure repeat customers.In our experience, we don't break as many by hitting them with a stake hammer going into the ground - ours always break when trying to remove the stake with a stake puller, especially in hard soil.
BUT!I think I have found a way to avoid (or at least minimize) removal breakage.Before our last camping trip, I tied a cord to the nail portion, and threaded the loose ends through the hole in the green head.I used a miller's or constrictor knot (or some adaptation of it), then just tied the loose ends together into a loop above the plastic head.When stake pulling time came, we slipped the puller (or the handle of the mallet) into the cord loop (rather than into the plastic head), and all the stakes came up VERY easily, without damaging a single stake head.This concept works because now the pressure of the pull is absorbed by the metal nail, and not by the brittle plastic, and the pull is now directed at the shaft of the nail (at least that's my theory; I don't pretend to understand physics). And it worked!! The loop was not in the way during the hammering phase, and provided the easiest removal that we have ever experienced.This method was tested in the hard, rocky soil of the Texas Hill Country - a tent stake's nemesis, I assure you.
Wikipedia has excellent examples of the aforementioned knots.
So with a little after-market retrofitting (I can attach the loops while my DH drives to the campground), these inexpensive, dependable stakes are at last a bit more durable.
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10" nail-type tent stakes with plastic T shape stopper. 3 per set.
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