Awning pegs and hard standings

Please,  CS,  How  were  they  "Difficult "  ??

When  I'm  going  to  use  pegs  on  land  that's  a  bit  'loose'  I  put  TWO  screw  in  pegs  at  90* to  the  guy or  ladder/ring,  one  to  the  left  &  one  to  the  right.  Very  seldom  have  problems  that  way.  Remembering  that  OP  has  a  Physical  problem  that  he/she  fears  could  even  limit  the  pleasure  of  'vanning,  I'm  just  thinking  of  making  life  a  little  easier  for  somebody.

Deleted User,     "Overseas"  should  not  offend  anybody,  ,  even  I  venture  across  the  Great  Divide  to  Anglesey  occasionally 

Agree HD, sure someone will help. Although how much they can help does depend on the HS and type of pegs being used. 

We have used ABMs angled peg approach, usually in Cornish granite. We also make use of dry stone walls, rather than bottles, putting them carefully back together after (won’t work on Club Sites, twitchers will have you hung drawn and quartered). 

Not having an awning shouldn’t be the end of your caravan days. It just requires rethinking and asking yourself do I really need all the stuff I store in an awning. Could a smaller amount of stuff be stored onsite in a simple pop up tent, that once the stuff is inside, is held down without pegs? Taken out and tent stored to go home. Quicker and simpler. If you need to sit under something, then a roll out awning might be the best answer. Hope you find a solution😃

Husband and I always put the awning up together. Then I always hammered the pegs in while he filled the water carriers. Once when he did it I criticised, said we had a 'floppy' awning. He said, well you do it then. That was it from then on, it worked, both happy. I'm sure your wife could do it. Sometimes it is rather hard, but with the right mallet and determination.

I haven't done this, always wanted to try it, but never got round.

Some time ago I did some work for ...., anyway for the first time I used concrete bolts. These need a pilot hole, but, this was for medium to hard grade concrete.

I've always wondered if they would be an ideal screw in peg for the awning, because of the hard standing being more of a tight ballast I'm guessing no need for the pilot hole, so they could work.

Only downside, well two, the bolts threads are razor sharp, and a very decent impact driver would be needed.

I'll get round to trying them one day. 

It all makes me happy that grass is still our chosen preference. Mind you, if there’s only a few inches of topsoil, it’s still down to what’s underneath😃

Agree. Although I doubt that all outfits could cope with the weight!🤣

I'm impressed that it works so well - when I tried using jerrican sized containers of water to anchor the guy lines on my Coleman Event Shelter, on a car park in medium wind, (the event organiser told me there'd be grass to peg into!) it just dragged the whole thing around when it gusted.

And re the OP - if the awning's essential, (we've only used ours once, as a kitchen/dining area when we had family staying with us on a site, otherwise it stays firmly at home), would some sort of DIY pile driver work? I'm thinking of something like two steel tubes, one which fitted over the peg both to hold it in place and do the actual pushing, another fitting over it telescope fashion, filled with something like concrete down to maybe half way up inside and a T handle at the top.  My theory is that one might stand and work it, probably two handed, without having to raise arms above shoulder height. This is probably an ill thought through idea with a gaping fault in it ready for someone to point out, but seems worth contemplating?
It would also look distinctly Heath Robinson-ish, and may even attract enough attention to get bystanders to do the job for you :-)