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Originally Posted by surferguy
For those of you that use concrete nails as tent spikes - Tell me more. I broke/bent a few of mine a couple of days ago. I’ve see some at cabelas that have a small plastic tab on the top, are those the ones? Or are they just straight up large construction spikes?
Edit: the post above are the ones I’ve seen. They had them at cabelas a couple of weeks back for 88c a piece but I can’t seem to find that deal anymore.
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I just wrapped up a massive roadtrip with daily tent setup/teardown. I used concrete nails from Home Depot (ones meant for construction), didn't bend any and they went in every time. The hardest ground was at a park near vancouver where the surface was (to the eye anyway) a 50/50 gravel/dirt mix. I had to swing the hammer pretty hard to get them to go in, but they did. To pull them out I tugged on them at a perpendicular angle and then it was fairly straight forward to remove.
Google photo of the ground in question:
https://tinyurl.com/57k9j8zu