tent peg puller

I was gonna mention that archimedes developed a good system that can be easily replicated with stuff around a campsite but that device pretty much does it all in one and applying his useful technique of leverage.

I always have trouble fitting in the neccessities. Whilst I have no doubt it would work, I just don't have room for everything like that. I guess I will just struggle for a few minutes getting the odd tent peg out that resists.LOL!

Trev

C Dog,
You wouldn't believe it. We're among those few dinosaurs still on dial up. Checked the Hillbilly site. Cut the lawn (grass),enjoyed a beer, took a shower, and arrived back to see the last picture of a wok loading.
Yes! I thought, 3 to go .(Hi ten pegs, then the puller.Yes, almost there.)

To quote a recent British comedy "Computer says No."
(As in no flamin images of the puller.)

Anyway, we use 10mm ss rod with chain link welded near top. Works for us, beats standard design hands down, and may the bloke who puts 'em on the market drink to our health.
(I now sit back in anticipation of the flood of design errors that we've overlooked)

I made my own, Use a piece of 5 or 6mm rod, 60 to 80cm long. Bend one end like a tent peg and from the other end come down 30cm and weld a nut on the rod, now slide a piece of tube 15cm long and 1mm larger than inside dia than the rod used down to the nut and weld another nut on the top. To use put hook end under the peg to be removed and slide tube upwards, works a treat, maximum space taken up is length plus about 15mm dia for tube.

Is that the one with a malet on one end, puller on the other?? Looks a treat

Yes - it is called a Wakjac I think. BCF have them at the moment for about $40. They are bright yellow so it would be hard to loose. I am going to get one shortly.

Karl

P.S think I paid $7 bucks from The Warehouse....

Good idea Blue ............
Similarly, I have been using cheap multi-grips for years, they live in the tentpeg bag with the hammer, some cane toads and about seven varieties of ants, spiders,lizards etc ..........a bonk with the multi-grips tends to pacify them, though .

Multigrips are also really useful at the campfire for FIRMLY lifting hot thingies off and on the fire .................. cheapies cost about $5 and well worth it !!

Hi to Crazy Dog in CNS ...........
Great link, that HillBilly site .................. excellent products and some great ideas, ay!!!
Many of them are incorporated in the famous Pedro's Pole BBQ, which is available for community viewing on my Members Profile !!
If you'll pardon a little boasting .... and total cost was about one and fourpence ha'penny, if my memory serves me correctly ??????????

I use this one myself and would recommend it to anyone.
It greatly reduces the pressure required to remove the peg from hard or soft ground.

Whoa there mike ol mate; the claret is still clouding the corneas, courtesy of Chrissy.
My image is that you have a length of pipe with a stub of 1/2 " rod into the pipe, welded, 'n then I lose it.
Any more clues ?

Pretty much, however I used a tent peg as it already has the hook in it, and instead of bar it should have read 'pipe'.

Hope the sun is out and cleared the cloud from in front of your eyes ;)

Fragle-rock this design i like. have you just taken a head off a hammer and welded it onto a piece of pipe with a hook on it

Regards BigFella

Wish I could take credit for it....but I can't. I actually came across this hammer/peg puller in a camping store some years back. I think it cost about $5. Wouldn't be hard to make, it is just as you suggest big fella, a piece of pipe welded to a a steel hook and a solid cylindrical piece of steel for the hammers head.

It has been extremely useful.

I saw one of these in Freedom Camping & I was very impressed with it. The week before I had made my own by getting a claw hammer & cutting off one claw & cutting again to make a point .. very effective & you need the hammer anyway for getting the pegs in!