Irv Finkleman wrote:
Jim Lux wrote:

Ron in Radio Heaven wrote:

I've never paid attention to the tool they use
when they put up the tent at the Charlotte show,
but it'll drive a 1 inch solid tent stake through
the asphalt parking lot like it's butter.

I've never been there to see what they have to do to pull
them out when the tent comes down.



An automobile bumper jack works fairly well as a stake puller.


Fairly well? It works great! Pulls out a 10 foot ground
rod like it was set in butter. The big thing is that once
you've lifted the ground rod a foot or so, you can pretty well
pull it out by hand. I just wish there was some way to
jack it in!!

Irv Ve^BP

Also helps to have a 2' sheet of plywood with a 4" hole in the middle
that you can set on the ground around the stake to set the jack base on.
In goopy soil, you can drive the base of the jack into the muck before
you get the rod out.