Tent Pegs....

[Craig_G]

Last year we had a bit of a palava over the tent pegs. We left ours at home like Mr Eavis and Co requested, only to get there and not be given our bio-degradable ones. Either way, anyone that had them found they wouldn't go into the ground as they would just snap!

We ended up buying more metal tent pegs but wondering if the festival is still trying to get people not to use them?

[Onus]

I hope not. Exactly the same happened to us, except that some wonderful people gave us four metal and four bio-useless pegs. That sorted us out and I'll be taking some extra to repay the favour this year .

[mouth]

take your metal ones but make sure you collect them all.

[mercary]

The biodegradeable ones were about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

I take all my tent pegs with me, and any others I see lying around. Also unpegged and re-packed a few of the tents people camped around us left (but stole their pegs!).

[glasto_freak]

Don't take metal ones. I know from experience, however careful you are, you nearly always end up losing one or two.

I saw a picture last year of all the pegs they collected, it was a massive pile. And a cow died, thats not fair.

You don't really need pegs that much unless the weather is bad (which it won't be), in which case the bio pegs will be fine.

Love the farm, leave no trace

[windy_miller]

take your metal ones but make sure you collect them all.

[HurrahBrother]

The bio-degradables were like a lot of 'green ideas', nice idea but a waste of resources (and so counter productive ).

The material is too brittle, just breakes when being pushed in (but sharp breaks, so could gash your hand open), shatters when you hit them with a rubber mallet, and the 'T' shaped tabs at the top would snap off when the tent flexed with a strong gust of wind.

Despite being made of spuds you could not even eat them!

Useless.

Best bet, those big chunky plastic pegs, sometimes with a T or an X cross section. They really hold your tent down! usually bright colours so easy to find later (pain to pull out through, so get a peg extractor, or use a normal peg that got bent in the past!). I use 6 of them on my igloo tent and it is about as solid as it can be!