I’ve also had the tops pop off the Easton stakes. Bummer.



“You can always buy those giant gutter nails…”

I’ve had good luck with these too. Too keep the rope from slipping off the small head, I added washers; not any old washers as these are heavy. I made some aluminum washers. Regular washers are just flat out heavy. Nail = 0.5oz, washer = 0.1oz.

I’m surprised I haven’t bent these things for what I have put them through.

On some ground, where the soil is only 2” before it hits rock, I just tie the rope to sticks and then just set a big ole rock on top of the stick. Or if I’m camping by a fallen tree, I tie the rope to its sturdy branch and then move the tree to get decent tension.

-Barry