Tent Stakes for Sand/ Screen Tent

[lattaj]

I will be spending the summer at the OuterBanks and would like to know what type of tent or awning stakes will hold in sand. Also, what is a good screen tent that is easy to put up and take down and can with stand the wind? Where can you buy these items? Thanks for your help.

Latta J

[Cat320]

What's a tent???

[Wandering Star]

We go the Cape allot and go off road to the beaches with our truck, like to surf fish. Best thing I found for stakes was to use a piece of rebar around 30 inches long and heat and bend a 6 inch right angle to the end. As far as the screen tent goes can't help much. We got one that has held up so far but really can not put a name or price on it, think it was bought at Wally World.
Jon

[Trailer Trash 2]

Here is the screen room.

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?p=WX2&i=93038

As for the stakes for the sand all I can sugest is some 3/8 rebar cut to 3 foot lengths and a 90 degree at one end or a eye to prevet it from comming out of the holes.

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[fulltimedreamer]

We use the dog tieouts that are large metal screws. They have a handle at the top and we just screw them into the ground, then use s-hooks to connect to the screen room. We have a coleman screen room that is like the one pictured above. We also use the screw-in stakes to tie down our awning if in windy areas. If a storm comes along, all bets are off, we hurry and put the awning away!!{]

[jrgwdenner]

lattaj, your question seemed to have been answered. For us it brought up a fond memory. We were a young family, many years ago, with three children under 4 years old, and we stopped with our little tent on a windy patch of the Outer Banks. Completely unprepared, some nice people shared their long wooden tent stakes with foolish us so we could spend the night there. Thanks for stirring up that sweet memory.

[lattaj]

Thanks guys. At least maybe we won't get blown away now. Now how to figure out how to bend rebar. lol

[Montana Sky]

With the boat, we spend a great deal of time in bays anchored. Usually, we keep the stern of the boats toward shore in waist/chest deep water, while dropping the anchor off the bow as we back towards shore. We use 4' rebar stakes when tying the boat up to the beach. Normally, it will hold all weekend through the waves and the wind.

[Wandering Star]

lattaj:
Easiest way to bend rebar is to put end in vise (@ 6 inches) and heat were bar enters vise with torch, when bar starts to glow red bend bar to ninety degree angle, stick end of bar in bucket of water to cool. I say this with the thought that you have access to vise and torch.
Good luck Jon

[Dave e Victoria]

If the sand is soft, we like to bury a coffee can or similar object. We put a hole in the bottom and insert anotted string. Bury the can upright and it is a very good anchor. Four of these into the wind and you are all set.
Dave

[lwcdg]

Put the rebar in the vise 4 to 6 inches then slide a pipe over the long end bend it back to make a 90 degree bend. You will need to pull back a little farther than 90 degrees to end at 90 because it will spring back a little. Doing this is simple and very easy. I've bent 5/8" rebar like this with little to no effort. 1/2 or 3/8 will be like cutting butter. No need for a torch if you don't have one.

The vise must be secured to a table or work bench ect. bottomline secured so it won't move.
Good luck
Chuck
ps. bent rods, 2 or 3 pound "hammer" and your set, remember that you need to get them secure for the weather. Then you need to pull them out, becareful and don't hurt your back. In the farm stores there are fence post pullers. You may want to check them out for ideas to make one. depending on the soil your in. sand probably no problem, clay this is another story.

[Ozzie]

When I started reading this thread, the first thing I thought of were those corkscrew things for the dog. But then I grew up in the woods of Minnesota...beaches were not the place we normally camped.

Nothing like a canoe trip to the Boundary Waters and having a 450 lb bear determined to get your food...