OK. I give up. What are these hooks for?

ECones wrote:
Our Arkansas raccoons would get to it hanging on that pole unless you greased the pole. ;)

Same here. Besides they don't look all that high off of the ground. Our MN raccoons would just stand up on there back legs and pull it down.

Our Arkansas raccoons would get to it hanging on that pole unless you greased the pole. ;)

wa8yxm wrote:
You can use for a lantern but if you are tent camping you hang your garbage bag from them so the critters can't rip it open and make a major mess.

Ha, I'm the same as you. I immediately thought a garbage bag. It won't protect you from the bears, but it will keep raccoons and the like from destroying your trash and leaving you with a mess the next morning.

We usually don't use lanterns when camping, but early spring and late fall camping when the sun sets at 4:30 pm requires some exterior lighting by which to eat dinner. This past year we just clamped a utility throw light to the end of the awning. For next year I plan to buy a utility clamp light that we can use to give a small area of decent task lighting.

Very rarely do we have bright outside lights at night.

Mr.Mark wrote:
In all the years that we have been RV'ing (reg. since '07), I have never seen a hook like that at our campsite. We have stayed at ALL types of parks (KOA's, private parks, regular RV parks, Etc.) but not public parks as we are generally to large.

And, a lantern seems like the most obvious use for it.

Safe travels,
MM.

Same here. In all the campgrounds I have visited in Montana and Wyoming, I have never seen one. That includes USFS, KOA, other commercial parks, Fairgrounds, etc.
there have been times when I wish there would have been one, now that I have seen them.

PapaNIes60 wrote:
I sure have enjoyed this thread. Thanks for the laughs. Merry Christmas to all my fellow RVers!

Ditto. I had my answer on the second post, but we've had six pages of fun and games. ;)

If this were Family Feud:

Hang kid by belt loop: 42
Stripper pole: 25
Dress a deer: 13
Trash bag: 7
lantern: 1

I sure have enjoyed this thread. Thanks for the laughs. Merry Christmas to all my fellow RVers!

You can use for a lantern but if you are tent camping you hang your garbage bag from them so the critters can't rip it open and make a major mess.

Those are hooks for lanterns designed by non-camping engineers!!!

dewey02 wrote:
Those are most certainly for lanterns. Today, with most people using LED lanterns, it is not quite so important. But in the past (and still in limited use today) when people use Coleman (gas) lanterns, they often would put a nail in an adjacent tree and hang the lantern there. It was not the nail that is of concern, but the high heat from the lantern kills the cambium (xylum and phloem - the circulatory system of the tree) in that spot.

If you look around the trees that closely border most campsites, you will see big, ugly scars on many of them. That comes from people having hung their gas lanterns on those trees. These dead spots (literally open sores in the bark of the tree) can weaken and even kill the tree. I know this as a result of being both a forester and having managed public land campgrounds for many years.

The metal pole hooks give people a place to hang their lanterns where they won't do any damage. Of course, you can hang other things from there too. But please...not windchimes.

You win the prize.Colman lantern were a problem.