Hey folks, Ben from Snowys here with the Oztent Oxley 5 Canvas Touring Tent today.
I want to show you how to pack it up and set it down so I'm going to jump
straight into it. First I'll show you what comes in the bag. This is obviously
the main portion of the tent, you've got awning poles so we can set
the awning up in front of the tent or add a few pegs, it's quite a heavy
package there; your fly sheet to go over the top, a nice heavy-duty functional
carry bag and it also comes with an instruction manual and a little Allen key -
notice some of the points in the frame here have got Allen key screws,
so obviously if you need to make adjustments or repairs on the fly,
that's there for you to use. So first thing I'm going to do is put the
accessories aside, spread the main tent out and peg the four corners out. Each of
the legs has got one of these little loops just to keep it all together so
you got to pull each of those off as you undo it. So we've got all four corners pegged
out, now the next thing we want to do is step inside the door here, I've made sure the
door's facing the right way, and push this centre hub up until it locks into
place. Once we've done that, we can see the tent starting to take shape, we just
need to lock these four side poles into place and we simply do that
by inverting the knuckle. You can feel these lock into place just as you pull
it out, you don't have to do anything you just pull it out and it locks in. So
that's all setup, how easy was that? I'm actually going to set this awning up for
you now before I throw the fly sheet over because you can use the awning
independently of the fly sheet on this tent, so you don't have to put the fly
sheet on unless the weather is really bad. So I'll extend that out and show you
how it looks and then we'll throw the fly on later.
So the last thing we need to do now is throw the fly over the top, which we
don't need to change anything on the tent as it is, this simply just throws
over the top. Throwing the fly over, the...Oztent have letter coded the
corners so we've got a B on this corner here which matches to the B on the tent
here so, and same with the other corner, one of them will also have an A on it,
here we go, there's an A which matches to the A in the corner here. Now these simply
attach with a clip, just a side release clip to each corner
and just throw it over the top. So just the final touches to setup of these
Velcro tabs under the fly here which just attached to the pole to keep it all
nice and secure. So we haven't set them up today but this tent is quite unique in that
it's got guy ropes attached to both the fly sheet here, in their own little
pockets, as well as to the main tent at the top here, once again in their own
little pockets as well. So if you don't have the fly sheet on you can still
pitch the inner tent with the guy ropes attached, but when you've got the fly on,
you can pitch both, yeah you can pitch both, both lots of guy ropes really,
for extra stability. So that's the Oztent Oxley 5 all set up, you
can put this complete side panel system on there, we don't have that with us
today, but there's zippers and attachment points all around the edge here so you
can enclose this front awning and there's also extra eyelets in the awning
here so you could actually put these poles back here if you like to create a
pitched awning at the front. I might do that quickly for
you to show you how it looks.
So I thought I'd be able to pitch this so that the awning was sort of peaked
in the middle and then angled down at the front but because it's wider at the
front here and narrow in the middle it tends to sag a little, there's no way of
avoiding that, unless you would've put a ridge pole up underneath here between
the two uprights. The complete panel system for the Oxley actually has peaked
sides on it so it comes with holes and things that allow you to create that
peaked sort of set up and quite a high room in the front of the tent there, so
if you haven't got the complete panel system you either need to get the extra
pole or just set it up as a flat awning out the front. So that's it all set up! I'm
going to reverse it all now, I'll show you how to pack it all away, so the first
thing we need to do before we pack the tent away is take all the poles, guy
ropes, everything down, take the fly sheet off and then we can collapse the centre
bit of the tent down and it all kind of happens at once. So I'll put all these
bits away first.
So I put the guy ropes away, I've rolled the fly... the awning away so it's
not flapping around in the way. I've left the doors and the windows open because
remember the next step when we collapse everything down it's going to allow the
air to escape out the tent and make it roll-up much easier. To collapse this
bit now we just jump inside, we grab the handle in the middle of the roof, pull it
down and the tent, the whole frame sort of collapses down. These knuckles on there,
on the arm, on the leg sorry, they all release and we've just got to fold the
tent away now. So in each of these corners, we just use the loop which is
the point that we put the peg in, we use the loop in that to loop over the
top of the centre knuckle, so with this bends, we leave this one over here. Doing
that for each corner's gonna make it easier to roll the whole lot away. So
I've got all four legs looped around the inner frame, now we just fold
them all up to the middle. You can see now how taking the time just to loop
these feet to the centre bit makes it easier at this stage because I'm only
holding four bits here instead of eight, if I didn't loop that on these would all be
falling over. So roll it on it's side now and we can roll it away and use the
included compression straps to hold it all together, before you put it in the bag.
So, that is pack up and set down of the Oxley 5 Canvas Touring Tent. Now that went
back in the bag pretty easily and I've still got room to spare in there so
they certainly haven't skimped on the size of the carry bag with this guy.
I reckon this is a great tent, I'd be happy setting that up night
after night on a touring trip. You can pick them up off our website,
lowest price everyday,
free delivery Australia-wide,
at snowys.com.au
Thanks for watching!