We've talked a little bit about Eberlestock bags but I wanted to show you the actual one
I have, the one I own. It's called Skycrane, and there's some people
that will like it and some people will try some of the other models.
I'm going to show you a few things about this, I'm just going to show you the back here
They ride really nice, if you watched our other videos, construction is top notch, all
the stitching is good, all the features are really stout.
Now, the interesting thing about this bag, is it's actually two main bags in one.
If you think about having a mother bag, and we will do this in a minute, but you have
a mother bag and then a three day assault bag, if you will
Also this can come off for a belly bag or a slash bag if you want, so it's really three
bags Basically two main bags in one and the nice
thing about this system is you can grow it depending on what your needs are
And by that I mean, you can make these all longer, all of these, so you can actually
fit in the J2sd camp duffle bag right here if you wanted too
But we have plastic in here just to fill it but you can fit a whole big duffle bag, box
or a turret or whatever and lash it down A lot of guys that use this for hunting, you
will see pictures of an elk head hanging out the back, so you can grow this which is really
neat Now to show you whats going on here, when
I say there is a mother bag and an assault bag, we have these zippers here and you can
unzip the three day assault bag and it has it's own system already set up so it's ready
to go The reasonI show this, my thinking was if
you have some issue where we had to leave immediately
I could have this one bag and if I had another partner with me or my wife, I could take out
this bag hand it to somebody and then you have the mother bag you can zip together,
which has it's own set of straps and everything else
So you can set this up and you literally have now two bags and you can fill this, or grow
this as well I hope this is making sense, you have two
main bags Another thought process of this system is
that you carry everything with you until you get to your camp and then you leave the mother
bag and you take your three day or assault bag with you and you can go short trips, looking
at things, whatever, just having fun If we look at this three day bag some nice
features about this are, you can get in it from the top, oh so exciting plastic, so you
can get in it from the top, You can also get into it from the front for
those of you who set up bags know we can't always get in the right places when you need
it So this kind of helps with that, you have
access to the top or straight in, you also have PALs or MOLLE strapping here so you can
put in separate bags which is what I have done on the inside, you also have a compartment
in back here, that will fit two, I think 3 liter water bags in here
And then you have the exit for your drink nozzle on the top here
You also have an area, in the top of the bag here for other items, PALs on the top, so
you have quite a few different areas, just in this three day assault bags, and you got
a pocket area here as well, more PALs, more pockets on both sides
And again, it has it's own strap system so you can hike with it, if you wanted to just
use this you can use the hip strap from the other one and put it on this, if that's all
you are going to be carrying that day Let me put this to the side for a minute
Let's get back to the mother bag here, IT'S A MOTHER, you have all sorts of little pockets
in here as well You got your side areas filled with paper
right now but they go all the way down to here
You got your synch pockets here, more PALs, a whole ladder system of PALs in here so you
can set this up anyway you want You got areas in both sides, pockets, pockets
below, a lot of ways to compartmentalize The top is what we were talking about, can
actually be it's own bag It's got some interesting features, you got
your area here on top you can fill more plastic
fill it with goods, it's got a spot in the back here with really soft fabric so if you
want to put your goggles or glasses in there And then on the sides, you have an area for
another water bladder if you wanted to take this you know, maybe this is your fishing
kit, you can take this off of your other bag and use it as a sling bag or belly bag, and
go about your business A lot of different things you can do with
this bag, we will put it back together, go about your day
You got your assault bag, zip that up, you got your zippers, they are great big zippers
so they are easy to use, notice we didn't have to edit me fighting with the zipper
Hopefully we won't do it on this side but the zippers seem to work real well for me.
Nice little features here, on the top there's a little hook and a little eyelet and the
hook goes through the eyelet and it keeps the zipper from going beyond about that point,
so it doesn't just unzip itself You got your bag put back together again,
everything closed, lash everything up and you are ready to rock
Again, you can grow this bag as big as these straps will go and these are kind of nice
features because they hold the straps together in one place
Then you can grow this sideways as well, you can grow the bag quite a bit this way
Now as far as the size 4475 cubic inches which is quite a bit of space
If you have 4475 cubic inches of stuff in a bag you are carrying some stuff, when others
say they carry the kitchen sink, you can carry the whole kitchen
Eberlestock Skycrane Skycrane is actually a industrial helicopter
that carries a bunch of stuff It's been my choice brecause again it has
two main bags, if there's two of you I can hand one bag to one person and I can take
the other We can hike about and do our business
The one thing I did, was I added a rifle scabbard in the back here and comes out the bottom,
so I carry my rifle with me as well One last thing, I know this is getting long
but it's go so many features There's a ladder system in here so you can
set this strap, this is the strap that goes around the body, in different heights so you
can customize this I ended up trying mine all the way at the
top and all the way at the bottom and I ended up just a little bit from the top so you can
have a lot of fun customizing this Eberlestock Skycrane available at Openrange
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