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[diane]

I was in Home Depot buying solar pool lights when I found some tiki torch stakes. They have a spike to drive into the ground about 10" and a 4" high ring to hold the actual pole with a wing screw to tighten on the pole for $2.99 . I purchased 2 to use as anchors/stablizers for my awning legs. Now thats a bargin :p

[eo19]

I just purchased two at Wal Mart for $1.99ea. I am using them for tiki torches. I made awning bases out of 8" flower pots, pvc pipe and concrete.

[Hothav]

I was in Home Depot buying solar pool lights when I found some tiki torch stakes. They have a spike to drive into the ground about 10" and a 4" high ring to hold the actual pole with a wing screw to tighten on the pole for $2.99 . I purchased 2 to use as anchors/stablizers for my awning legs. Now thats a bargin :p

Thanks for the tip.  I went camping this weekend, used them, and they worked quite well.

[masspopup]

Another idea...We picked up a few dog tie out at the Dollar Store for this purpose.  They screw into the ground and then we use bungi cords to anchor the horizontal awning poles to the tie outs.  We do this directly next to the vertical poles so they are no more in the way than the poles themselves.

This system seems to work pretty good. They seem to penetrate pretty hard dirt surfaces and even screwed only 1/2 way in as really secure in the ground.

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[whyrlygig]

I read this post and was inspired to find a solution for our awning too.  I went to the garden department at Menards looking for tiki torch stakes.  No luck there.  Instead, I found 24" plant stakes that have a loop in the top.  They work perfect and were 69

[nineoaks2004]

We were at Wally World, they had tent stakes on sale, really just a long bridge spike (also available as bridge spikes at Home depot or Lowes) I knocked the plastice thingy off and these are great for awning or for tents. They can be driven in with a hammer and can be pulled out witht he claws of a hammer if the dirt (or limerock) is hard.