Favorite stakes?

[Higbean]

What are you guys using? I need 12 to pitch my Super Fly and don't want them to take up a ton of room.

[BroChaos]

6 per side? i'm having a hard time even picturing that...why so many?

[wiscoman]

I use the cheap aluminium shepherds hook ones from walmart. I like the hook style for ease of use but thats just my 2 cents.

[quietmike]

Mixture of ti shepherds hooks and msr mini groundhogs.

[Jayson]

4 mini msr groundhogs, 2 full size msr groundhogs for windward side and a couple small shepherd hooks for the doors.

[DuctTape]

saplings, roots, rocks in that order. Last is sticks if needed.

[Tendertoe]

In direct response to the question, I prefer MSR Groundhogs. I have bent too many other types of stakes to count at a local spot that has about the hardest clay earth you could imagine.

I would rather be prepared for the worst situation I am going to encounter and just carry the item(s) that will handle that always.


Now about the number of stakes you mention for the Superfly.

I would recommend a single stake per corner = 4.

Then use a "Y" shaped tieout (a line coming from each side pullout that then connects to a single line that goes to the ground) for the side pullouts instead of two separate tieouts which would cut the number of stakes needed for the side pullouts from 4 to 2 total.

Then for each set of doors use a single stake so that'll cut you from 4 stakes total - 1 for each door - down to 2 stakes total (or even better, clip the tieouts to the corner triangles or loop around the corner stakes which would negate the need to even have any stakes for the doors at all).

So, 4 total stakes for the corner tieouts, 2 total stakes for the side pullouts, no stakes for the doors, .

Cutting the number of stakes from 12 to 6 is a pretty big cut in bulk and weight IMHO.

[craige]

6 per side? i'm having a hard time even picturing that...why so many?

2 for side pullouts, 2 for doors, 2 for panel pulls will be his thinking.

You need 10 max, the panel pulls only need one stake per side check out the warbonnet setup vid here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHuU...e_gdata_player

I use a combo of alpkit y beams and lawson equipment ti hooks, although I often find myself using sticks or roots instead of the ti hooks so I may just do away with all of my stakes.

[JollyGreen]

Mixture of ti shepherds hooks and msr mini groundhogs.

Yep, me too

[Caveman]

I use groundhogs and mini groundhogs. They are great.