Screw Pegs

Buy these:

https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Screws+%26+Fixings/d90/Coach+%26+Roof+Bolts/sd1670/Coach+Screw/p78511

Get some M10 washers as well, put a washer on the bolt.

Use a 1Lb hammer to drive them in.

Unscrew them out.

Never been stopped yet, even by the hardest of hardstandings.

Most pegs are hammered in, the advantage with the bolts above is that they don't bend and last forever, even when you get a bit enthusiastic with the hammer.

It's the hammer part I am trying to change.  Up to now I have been using regular rock pegs, but thought I would try the screw pegs.  Thinking let the drill take the strain.  Didn't work, as I ended hammering them in with the lump hammer.  So now I'm just wondering if it was me and my insertion technique or they are rubbish.

I, too, would be very interested in replies to this thread since I have been searching the internet for something suitable.  I find bashing pegs into a hardstanding exhausting and I usually end up with an aching wrist and bashed fingers!

I discounted the Aldi ones because reviews suggest that the plastic bit is fixed to the peg and therefore spins round when being put in with a drill - as do quite a lot of others it would seem.

I have found these:here but I'm not sure whether these have fixed heads or not.

I no loner use an awning but have in the past. I started with a lump hammer and found that it was hard on the wrist and so changed to using a steel shafted claw hammer. Far easier. As we all know the impact force is a product of weight and the speed squared. Holding a hammer properly at the end so that the head accelerates faster than the wrist due to the arc of the head makes driving pegs far easier on the wrist than using a short handled lump hammer. Of course a claw hammer is best IMO as it is easy to pull out the peg by simply hooking the claw under the peg head and standing on the hammer head to leaver the peg out. No strain. 

Totally agree ET - I use a claw hammer - but it's still bloomin' hard work.  An age thing I suspect!  The prospect of being able to screw the pegs in is very attractive, but it's just a question of finding the right ones. The OP mentions using an impact driver - I suspect that won't work because it will tend to vibrate the pegs as they go in and make them loose.

I have always had the standard steel pegs ,and use a soft faced club hammer that has a shock absorbing handle (about 30yrs old)I think they are still made, and a  twist of the peg is usually sufficient to enable easy withdrawal when packing up to go

Richardandros - what's this with using rubber headed mallets? Is it for noise abatement? I've had to smile at folk using them to drive steel pegs into hard stands on various sites.

Nothing positive to add about Screw pegs unfortunately.  We have tried two types a few times now and find them useless.  Like you we thought it would be easier on the wrists but have reverted to the normal rock pegs. 

LR, I don’t think there is a ‘one way’ cure all answer just a way each person uses. I use the screw in types of pegs with a cordless drill. I start each peg off by knocking it in an inch or so with a lump hammer(see below) to break the surface & to ensure the peg can’t fall over as its being drilled down. It works for me is the only recommendation I can give it. Good luck👍🏻😊

I have seen them successfully used but only as R2B suggests - by starting off with a hammer first.