HOW DO GROUNDGRABBA JUNIORS WORK?
STAKES AND TENT PEGS THAT OUT PERFORM THE OLD HAMMER-IN TENT PEGS FROM THE DAYS OF OLD CAESAR!
FIRST SOME BACKGROUND
If you set up on the flat clay pans in the South Australian Desert, the tough grounds of the Pilbara or in the high country of the Snowy Mountains GroundGrabba Juniors have you covered.
Based on a accentuated screw design with a forged flanged hex head, GroundGrabba’s revolutionary drill-in, screw-in deployment combined with one of the toughest blend of carbon steel means a stronger, quicker, easier setup with greater anchoring than a conventional peg stake or tent peg can provide.
GroundGrabba Juniors our entry level screw-in stake comes with a 15mm collared hex head to make connection to your drill simple and stable.
A 15mm socket will fit over the hex and seat on-top of the flange for stability when driving it in. The hex & collar combination also connects in with our comprehensive range of GroundGrabba adaptors.
GroundGrabba drill-in, screw-in ground anchor tent pegs are suitable for all but few variety of ground types. Your site and your quality expensive equipment won't be going anywhere until you decide.
HOW TRADITIONAL TENT PEG STAKES WORK
Firstly, here in Australia for camping we use tent pegs which come in all sorts of varieties. GroundGrabba's are more than a cut above "tent pegs". Traditional tent pegs are a shaft or spike skewer design.
As said, conventional tent pegs are based on a spike or skewer design, the same for heavy duty tent pegs. They rely on the surrounding ground mass crushing the shaft of the tent peg or heavy duty tent peg, and are very limited for vertical loads especially if the ground gets wet and sodden. Normally such tent pegs are hammered into the ground at about a 45-90 degree angle away from the load to rely on the grounds resistance to the shaft.
By doing this the tent peg doesn't penetrate down to its full length and therefore obviously has even less ground weight mass on top of it to hold it down which is kind of like a double whammy of losses.
HOW DOES GROUNDGRABBA JUNIOR WORK?
The threads (or spiral) design provides a double solution to increasing the ground holding and anchoring forces compared to a pin shaped skewer hammer-in tent peg.
The greater the ground density, the better the gip and thats why it is better to drill these in vertically. The cut-in threads helps create more ground resistance and therefore harder to pull out than the common tent peg.
NEED MORE HOLDING POWER?
If you're looking for greater ground holding then we suggest you look at our GroundGrabba Pro and Pro Commercial range. More information on our other GroundGrabba's is below.
The density of the ground type will decide the look of the virtual plug or cone shape of ground that the flights width will effect. The greater the density, the wider the pattern or shape. In sand for example, there'll be virtually no plug shape if any and therefore greater depth is required for greater anchoring. This is where the GroundGrabba Pro II and to a lesser extent our GroundGrabba Pro Icome into their own.
Notice the plug shape above indicating the earth holding volume of a GroundGrabba.
Traditional spike tent peg stakes ground holding volume is almost non existent in comparison to the GroundGrabba augur design.
Want to know how much GroundGrabba products will hold? Check out our News blogs to find out.
Why Can't One Stake or Tent Peg Design Work For All Grounds and Why Should I Need To Carry Different Stakes or Tent Pegs?
In the early days of our research for a one tent peg do it all design, we came to the practical awakening that one stake or tent peg just won't give an answer to all ground anchoring or tent pegging situations. It is logical if you really think about it. It is just like the fact that one car won't suit all peoples needs or clothes to wear or food to eat.
With so many different ground or substrate types we have here in Australia, from solid rock to quick sand it is clear a one tent peg or staking solution is not possible. Ground Grabbers currently come in ten plus different models:
- GroundGrabba Pro 300mm steel for harder to average semi soft ground.
- GroundGrabba Pro I 450mm steel for not quite as hard to soft grounds including sand.
- GroundGrabba Pro II 600mm steel for not quite as hard to soft grounds including sand but with greater anchoring ability.
- GroundGrabba Lite 400mm nylon for soft ground and sand only and NOT for vertical loads in soft sand.
- GroundGrabba Junior 275mm 1080 carbon steel for best for medium to hard ground with low to medium loads
- to 10 Are for Commercial or specialised use such as larger marquees and festival tents to ground anchoring a sculpture on your front lawn or bolting down outdoor furniture.
GroundGrabba adds Speed, requires Less Time and Energy so you can set up Faster, More Securely, grab a beer, go fishing or simply kick back and chill.
