Plastic tent peg mallet, are these any good?

[havachat]

I have always used an ordinary hammer to bash my tent pegs in. Are the plastic tent peg mallets any good?
They just seem too light to be able to drive a steel peg into hard ground or am I completely incorrect.
Something like this:
https://www.bcf.com.au/online-store...Hammer-Orange.aspx?pid=338004#Recommendations

just trying to save weight !

 

[Kevin]

No, they're useless! Get a lump hammer

 

[Ratbag]

60+ y.o. claw hammer here. It isn't as heavy as all that ...

HC, save weight somewhere else, mate. A hammer is so ubiquitously useful, one shouldn't leave home without one ... .

 

[Liberty Valance]

I have that exact hammer, Supa-peg give them away when buy a good quantity of pegs.

Supa-pegs are excellent but the hammers are rubbish.

Just as you called it there's not enough weight to be effective.

 

[duncanm]

want to save weight -- use a rock, back of an axe (if you carry one), etc.

Otherwise.. I find a rubber mallet is handy; it can also be used for other things, like repairs, if required. I find claw hammer heads too small for swinging at tent pegs when my hand is in the way!

 

[havachat]

Seems pretty conclusive!

 

[Dulagarl]

Rubber mallet is the go.

Its a PITA being camped somewhere having the clang clang of metal on metal with someone hammering in tent pegs with a hammer.

 

[Liberty Valance]

I disagree. That is part of the soundtrack of camping, just like splitting firewood

 

[duncanm]

my camping soundtrack involves short 'psssht' sounds every half hour or so.

 

[Robbks]

my camping soundtrack involves short 'psssht' sounds every half hour or so.

:biggrin::biggrin:

this!

 

[ateday]

Lay off the garlic and onion herbal teas.