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by ConnieD » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:01 pm
I used the cheap aluminum shepherd hook stakes that are provided with a tent purchase.
I suggested, in the comments section, a shepherd's hook tarp/tent stake.
The titanium needle stakes or the titanium nail stakes will work, as well.
It seems many of the YouTube backpackers have those type tarp/tent stakes in titanium, which work very well.
I admit, I have been looking at the tarp/tent titanium stakes sold, because I want to use them with my backpacking stoves.
On topic, if the ground is suitable, I put the shepherd hook stakes through the bottem openings in the Caldera Cone.
If not, I just pop that Caldera Cone off while holding on to the beverage can. However, I needed to grasp the sides of the can.
This is one more reason I did not like either the Foster's can or the Heineken can with "improvements". Neither the "rubber band" or the "wick wrapping" provided strength to the sides of the can.
I had been wearing workman's gloves, from the hardware store, that have silicone dots, that worked fine.
However, the sides of the can deflected too much, denting the can.
It looked like I was backpacking something I pulled out of a dumpster.
I do not like to look like a "hobo" or like a "homeless" bum. Even "homeless" I had got nice travel trailer. I washed and dressed well. When I was a child, camping, hiking and backpacking were for lucky city kids like me, whose parents made certain every family vacation included great experiences camping, hiking, backpacking, fishing, canoeing, and more fun like that in the wilderness. Backpacking has been recreation, for me, over 50 years. I am very sensitive on that subject. It is part of why I have expensive gear and clothing.
Now that I have a Ridgeline Foster's, I can use the "silicone pot grabber" instead.
The shepherd hook tarp/tent stakes will remove the Caldera Cone.
I don't need them, now.
FYI, I will very likely spray paint my Foster's can "stove" black.