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(More customer reviews)These stakes are hard almuminum, and take hammer hits well. Pulling out of most soils was easy enough. Their shape provides good holding power and easy removal. Where they fall short of Ground Hogs, is their bending point. Wall thickness is thinner, and they will bend even when driven up to their necks. To give the stakes credit, I was loading them very heavily; far more than I could have loaded wire stakes, and others.
Overall, I like them. For only $7 I had to give them a try. I am a recreational camper who doesn't need ultra-reliable stakes, and these were actually pretty good. Probably a good purchase for campers who don't really need eight Ground Hogs (like me).
Those who travel all over, and need reliable stakes to pound into concrete will need Ground Hogs, but for those who need good stakes for regular dirt, these work well.
P.S. I straightened my 2 bent stakes, and they will hold pretty much anything I tie on them. Just not the ridiculous load that originally bent them.
Update Oct., 2010
Just returned from a week-long hammock trip through Arkansas and Texas. I bent the stakes again, by stepping on the guy lines in the dark. Straightened them out by wedging them in between the slats of a picnic table, and bending back. The soil was hard sand, and compacted gravel/sand. They held up okay for the remainder of the trip. As both a tent camper and a hammock camper, I wouldn't choose these stakes again. They are too large for what they do. Spending the time and effort to pound several 7 inch stakes into the ground just to have them bend, isn't worth it. Extraction is easy enough, but they just don't have the strength-to-usefulness ratio right. I'm going to buy Ground Hogs.
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