Tesorrio Cosmos® Pack of 6 Orange Color Aluminum Tent Stakes for Camping/Trip/Hiking/Backpacking or Other Outdoor Activities in Sand or Snow

These are very good SAND stakes. They are not really designed for hard ground. They are only an 1/8' thick so they are not very strong vertically or will handle higher lateral loads like a steel stake will. They are also concave for a reason- to increase surface area and resistance in soft soil like sand or snow.You DO NOT put a tent guyline around the top of this stake. If you look at the holes in the stake the smaller diameter one at the lower end of the stake is were you put the guyline THROUGH the stake and then you bury the stake in the sand parallel to whatever you are attaching the guyline to. The shape allows you to push it into soft base material very easily but due to its shape and that its buried, it provides a very firm hold. I added carabiner clips to the end of my guyline so I can quickly connect it to attachment points on my tent. I used these stakes for a pop up beach tent which is why the guyline is so short. You can use this stake in the conventional manner but under only very light wind conditions and NOT into hard ground. Every complaint about this stake being too weak or bending is because the individuals were using it incorrectly in the wrong type of base. There are several good Utube videos showing the correct use of this stake.

These worked great to keep my sunshade in place on a windy day at the beach! Easy to push in and pull out of the sand but the wind couldn’t pull them out, even when catching the entire tent-like sunshade like a sail. Only used them once so far, but they did great.

These were amazing for having our beach shelter to go up and stay up. I pushed these into the sand by hand, almost all the way in, with an inch showing out of the sand for the straps to hook onto. With the 10-15 mph light breeze that was going, we had no problem with our shelter. I had the shelter setup to have the wind from the ocean go over the shelter, not cup the air in. These worked so well, I needed to get another set for this particular shelter. So for this shelter, I used 3 sets of these sand pegs. Cinch Shelter.

I ordered three packs of the orange stakes. Each package was a wildly different variation of the color orange.

Good item as long as your not using great force to insert stake. They are made of thin aluminum and will bend/crumble.