Tent peg

Herring is called the anchoring pin with tents. The alternative names are tents, linen, rope or Spannagelhaus and describe correctly simple tent nails.

Herring also be used for planning, wind deflectors, poles, lines, nets, and many other things that must be held in place by guy ropes and rope tension at a place and in a position at the bottom. As a rule, these are mobile devices, as just tents that remain only a short time at each location.

For stamping of herring, among other rubber hammers are used, intended to prevent the bending of a herring when it encounters an obstacle in the soil.

Herring exist in contrast to the tent peg of an elongated, pointed down tapered plate. This is the stability after folded because of the length or cast angular. Thus they can not rotate freely. Thus, there is no risk that the line from slipping herring as it is the case in which a round steel rod made ​​of peg. Due to the higher bending stiffness of the herring can not easily bend when driven like a peg and thus easily pulled out again and installed again.

Made of wood, plastic, aluminum, steel or special alloys and from mini to mega - nail Wing Sand Peg all types have their respective use, depending on the substrate and the required tension. On rocky and various other soils, however, must be avoided to the anchorages on trees or rocks occasionally.

That the form remotely resembling the fish called herring, has the tent peg possibly introduced his name. Maybe the name is from the Latin haerere depend ( Me ) derived.