On the testing: I actually ran the strength test three more times. My peg performed better 4 out of 5 times… on the fifth time of testing they matched… I received a really insightful bit of criticism on Facebook and I’m copying it here… this is from Mole JCole: “These look great for Non-Essential pegging. But I am dubious you're going to safely peg the 4 corners with 3 mm carbon fibre pegs in many different soil conditions.. There's a lot of strain on them. Especially the 2 corners nearest the door zips. What you're calling a strength test in the video is really a holding test? The peg break strength doesn't appear to be tested? As you say, holding power is a function of length, but It's also a function of surface area, Your test was in soft deep soil . What happens as the soil gets shallower or much harder so you can't get the peg so far into the ground? I think you'll still need 4 pegs with decent surface area.” There’s only one way I can find out how these will perform in real world use and that is to use them for real… I will report back!
Ive just had my order arrive, i orfered 4mm but i received 2mm arghhh. I can't wait to give this a go. I have a load of different sized rubber pole end caps which i think ill use one on top of each other and see it that wirks. Only as i have them. Will be softer onnthe hand when pushing in at least. Live the vid, great idea.
I've literally just made myself a load of 3mm and 4mm carbon pegs. I used capped star washers for caps. The advantage is there's a mechanical fix, which I then glued. They've worked on a recent week of wild camping in the Lakes. To the person who asked about putting a point on the end - there's no need they're so thin. I actually round the tips to reduce chipping splitting.
If you have a friend in the restaurant business use their walk in freezer to test your pegs for severe cold. Throw some pegs in there for a couple of days and then test their breaking strength while in the freezer. Not lab quality analysis for sure but it will get you in the ballpark for various data points. Cool video by the way. 👍👍👍
Really nice video man! I’ll definitely try out to make these! How come you didn’t make them pointy at the end? Wouldn’t that work even better? Also, just made a little donation. It’s because of guys like you I really love the RUclips community! Best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪
@@TubeByCharlie yeah, great question, when it came down to it the end seemed thin enough that it it wasn’t needed and so I thought I wouldn’t introduce a potential weakness by pointing it.
@@LOCKEYJ sounds reasonable. I’ll try one and update you on how it works. Also, would be interesting to see how the epoxy holes up overtime, you haven’t had any problems with it yet? looking forward to you new content
Brilliant! Love what you've done here, and a massive weight saving. Just curious, how did you settle on 3mm rather than 4mm etc? Shorter/longer lengths? Have you seen any figures for strength to weight ratio etc? Also as others have suggested, cold weather performance may be significantly affected (I've managed to snap aluminium pegs in -10) but yes, getting them in frozen ground would probably be impossible! Anyway, I'm going to try it and let you know how I get on.
@@LOCKEYJI've just briefly tried to find 4mm and 3mm strength-to-weight ratios, but couldn't find much. It must be out there, and how it performs related to temps. I'll report back!
I wouldn't touch CF tent pegs...They might be fine on damp turf like you showed but they would probably shatter if you tried to knock them into harder rocky/stony ground. I use ultralight Titanium Shepherd Hook pegs, a mixture of 3mm diameter and 3.5mm diameter but all are 16.5cm long. I have used them everywhere, even on dry rocky mountains where there is no soil (On Pachnes in Crete) and you can knock then into any tiny crevice and it's virtually impossible to even scratch them. You can bend them a little if you try hard enough, but they bend right back easy enough.
@@alfoutdoors9660 fair enough, I’ve Used these a couple of times and they don’t really seem to care about rocks- the thing i’d be fearful of with them would be cold making them brittle. It’s just a case of choosing the right thing for the conditions.
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On the testing: I actually ran the strength test three more times. My peg performed better 4 out of 5 times… on the fifth time of testing they matched…
I received a really insightful bit of criticism on Facebook and I’m copying it here… this is from Mole JCole:
“These look great for Non-Essential pegging. But I am dubious you're going to safely peg the 4 corners with 3 mm carbon fibre pegs in many different soil conditions.. There's a lot of strain on them. Especially the 2 corners nearest the door zips.
What you're calling a strength test in the video is really a holding test? The peg break strength doesn't appear to be tested?
As you say, holding power is a function of length, but It's also a function of surface area, Your test was in soft deep soil . What happens as the soil gets shallower or much harder so you can't get the peg so far into the ground? I think you'll still need 4 pegs with decent surface area.”
There’s only one way I can find out how these will perform in real world use and that is to use them for real… I will report back!
Ive just had my order arrive, i orfered 4mm but i received 2mm arghhh. I can't wait to give this a go.
I have a load of different sized rubber pole end caps which i think ill use one on top of each other and see it that wirks. Only as i have them. Will be softer onnthe hand when pushing in at least.
Live the vid, great idea.
The rubber sounds good.👍
I've literally just made myself a load of 3mm and 4mm carbon pegs. I used capped star washers for caps. The advantage is there's a mechanical fix, which I then glued. They've worked on a recent week of wild camping in the Lakes.
To the person who asked about putting a point on the end - there's no need they're so thin. I actually round the tips to reduce chipping splitting.
@@rbreiff73 ooo, that’s an interesting variation. I had to look up what a star washer was. Brilliant idea
If you have a friend in the restaurant business use their walk in freezer to test your pegs for severe cold. Throw some pegs in there for a couple of days and then test their breaking strength while in the freezer. Not lab quality analysis for sure but it will get you in the ballpark for various data points. Cool video by the way. 👍👍👍
@@rnrhodes9256 yeah… I think getting the peg in the ground if it’s frozen would be tricky 🫣 Will update after the winter
Brilliant
Really nice video man! I’ll definitely try out to make these! How come you didn’t make them pointy at the end? Wouldn’t that work even better? Also, just made a little donation. It’s because of guys like you I really love the RUclips community! Best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪
@@TubeByCharlie yeah, great question, when it came down to it the end seemed thin enough that it it wasn’t needed and so I thought I wouldn’t introduce a potential weakness by pointing it.
@@TubeByCharlie thanks for your donation. Thats amazing! 🤩
@@LOCKEYJ sounds reasonable. I’ll try one and update you on how it works. Also, would be interesting to see how the epoxy holes up overtime, you haven’t had any problems with it yet? looking forward to you new content
Brilliant! Love what you've done here, and a massive weight saving. Just curious, how did you settle on 3mm rather than 4mm etc? Shorter/longer lengths? Have you seen any figures for strength to weight ratio etc?
Also as others have suggested, cold weather performance may be significantly affected (I've managed to snap aluminium pegs in -10) but yes, getting them in frozen ground would probably be impossible! Anyway, I'm going to try it and let you know how I get on.
@@liveinthewild7646 not a lot of facts and figures, it was a let’s test it and find out that way situation
@@LOCKEYJI've just briefly tried to find 4mm and 3mm strength-to-weight ratios, but couldn't find much. It must be out there, and how it performs related to temps. I'll report back!
I wouldn't touch CF tent pegs...They might be fine on damp turf like you showed but they would probably shatter if you tried to knock them into harder rocky/stony ground. I use ultralight Titanium Shepherd Hook pegs, a mixture of 3mm diameter and 3.5mm diameter but all are 16.5cm long. I have used them everywhere, even on dry rocky mountains where there is no soil (On Pachnes in Crete) and you can knock then into any tiny crevice and it's virtually impossible to even scratch them. You can bend them a little if you try hard enough, but they bend right back easy enough.
@@alfoutdoors9660 fair enough, I’ve
Used these a couple of times and they don’t really seem to care about rocks- the thing i’d be fearful of with them would be cold making them brittle.
It’s just a case of choosing the right thing for the conditions.
For crying out loud just get on with it !
Fair!
Why even bother ?
For fun
I'm guessing this is humour, right?