- Hey folks, Ben from Snowys today
I'm showing you the Helinox Cafe Chair.
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- [Peter] This is a lightweight and compact chair,
with a bit of extra height
that pairs perfectly with the Helinox Cafe Table.
This is the Cafe Chair all packed up.
Weighs about 1.4 kilos, about 60 centimetres in length
and about 15 centimetres in diameter on the end there.
Nice oversized bag, so it's easy to get back in
once you've got it set up.
Now, what's included with your chair
is all pretty straight forward.
So unzip the bag
and inside you'll have,
well, there's an instruction manual there,
and then you'll have the sling
wrapped around the outside of the chair legs.
So throw the instruction manual and the bag away
and unroll this.
So two parts.
This is all together, the frame's all together.
And then you've got the sling here, so.
To assemble this, straightforward.
It's all shock corded together.
So these hubs here have shock cord through
that join all the poles in the spot that they need to go in.
So it's just a case of folding all of these out.
So they all sit into place one by one.
Just be gentle with it.
Don't slap around too much, cause you don't want to...
The alloy is prone to cracking
and you want to make sure these seat all the way in.
In saying that this is really high quality aluminium.
If you've got that seated all the way in these hubs,
you're not gonna have any problems.
So just make sure they go all the way in,
nice and firmly or nice and positively situated.
And you might find where you could get this
in a sort of twisted, I suppose, if you like,
cause this central hub does come apart as well,
but just make sure you've got those four legs here.
1, 2, 3, 4 on the bottom.
And that sits up this way.
So we've got the short bits at the front,
long at the back.
This is the bottom bit or the bit we sit on.
This is the back here.
Now grab the sling.
We know which way up this goes by the Helinox label here.
So first thing we do is put these,
which are all reinforced.
We'll go into the details shortly on the materials.
That goes over the top of that one there.
Spin it around to the back further.
Second one goes over the top here as well.
And then we come around to the front at the bottom.
First one stretches over,
Now it's just firm, these ones,
but the last one we put in place
is gonna require a little bit of muscle,
so that the chair sling fits firmly
and holds the frame in place.
So we just push this down towards the frame,
slide it over the top,
and that's now secure around the top of the frame there.
Now that's the chair set up.
Now dimensions of the setup chairs,
85 centimetres to this top edge here.
It's about 56 centimetres from edge to edge here
and about 50 centimetres deep this way.
In terms of chair height,
if I squish this down, the front is about 45 centimetres
and it tapers down a little bit to the back here.
And it's a bit hard to get an exact measurement
but the depth of the seat here
is around about 30 centimetres.
I'll sit in there shortly,
but I just want to cover off on the material.
So, this is a, a heavy duty polyester on here.
So I don't, they don't specify denier
but it feels sort of like a 600 odd denier polyester.
So really durable.
And a mesh around the sides
in the back here for breathability,
which feels like a really durable mesh as well.
I've got a chair, different Helinox chair,
same materials and I've used it heaps and heaps,
and I've had no problems at all with the materials.
As I mentioned before the frame
is a really high quality alloy,
and that's teamed up with high quality nylon hubs here,
or manufactured through a company known as DAC,
which make really high quality tent poles.
So you're never gonna have any issues
with the frame on the chair here.
Also nylon caps on the end here to, uh,
protect the poles from getting too much muck inside of it,
and also to grip it on the ground
if the ground is slippery at all.
So really high quality engineering.
I'm just gonna spin around and show you
the back of the chair here
and the hubs where the poles sit in.
So this is all double reinforced here.
So it's all double stitched around here.
And there's a, a rigid panel in here
over the top of what must be sort of a ballistic nylon
or an extra reinforced hub here.
So, wherever these stress points are,
Helinox has added extra reinforcing.
And I can vouch from the use of my own chairs
which have had heaps and heaps of use
both through myself and my kids.
I've not had any dramas with mine
and these are really made to the highest standard.
Now in terms of sitting in the chair, I'm 185 centimetres.
So the extra height in this chair,
Helinox's base chair, which is a chair,
one I believe was quite low design
for compact camping or hiking.
They've added height to this.
So you can almost get an, an upright
or your legs are almost at 90 degrees
for an average height person here.
And the height of it, it is much like a cafe chair.
It's not, room for me to sort of lean my head back,
but I've got support, sort of just under or below
my, my shoulders here.
So I can sit quite upright.
I will grab, as I mentioned before,
this Cafe Chair from, Cafe Table from Helinox.
Kind of goes hand in hand with this chair.
This is a separately available product.
And they brought these out at the same time;
they kind of go together.
So you can see once again, 185 centimetres in height.
The legs kind of get in the way bit
if I sit with a table like this.
But if I turn it sideways like that
I can pull the table quite close
and someone else can sit on the other side here.
And in terms of a camping setup,
it's quite compact and comfortable.
The height's really good here.
The chair's not in the way,
I've got my arms space to move
and you can have a quite comfortable,
comfortable meal here, so.
Quite a good setup for a compact car camping setup here
with a combination of the Cafe Table and the chair,
but it's the chair we're showing you today.
Haven't mentioned it does have 145 kilo weight rating.
So suitable for just about anyone really in this chair here.
So a compact high option for any sort of camping setup.
Now, pack up is really easy.
It's everything in reverse.
We start...
Just lean it backwards
and start with one of the front corners here.
So little bit of muscle.
This is the hardest one.
Just pop that off the corner there.
Do the other four, other three, sorry,
off of that one.
The back one comes off nice and easy.
And the last one there.
Now lay this down and just fold it up
ready to put the frame in.
So, lay it down like this,
fold the sides in
and that up that way.
Now it doesn't fold perfectly neatly.
There are stiff bits in here.
So I've got a stiff section here
and a stiff section here where all the reinforcing is.
So, that's not gonna roll up perfectly,
but the tote, the bag being oversized
allows for that extra space.
Now the chair here,
set it down and fold everything
in towards this centre section here.
So fold it this way, this way,
fold all of these across, keeping hold of it.
This is probably, the most difficult bit
is just holding all these loose bits as you go.
Fold all these down
until they're all bundled together.
And then all you do is lay this down in the sling there.
Roll this up like this.
Doesn't have to be super neat.
Tuck this back in the bag and zip it up.
Little bit tight where the sling is
but perfectly manageable to do that up.
So that is the Helinox Cafe Chair.
I reckon a great option for tall people
who are looking for a compact camp chair.
Great if you just spend the weekends out.
Maybe go to wineries
and you need your table and chairs for a picnic;
this is a perfect setup for that.
It's kind of stylish looking as well.
And nicely compact in your vehicle.
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