- Hey folks, it's Lauren from Snowys here
with the OZtrail Deluxe Gazebo 3.0.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up and pack it away.
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Quicker to set up with a couple of sets of hands,
but easy enough for one person.
It's got an all-in-one pullout frame
and a fast lock adjustment for multiple height settings.
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So we're lucky enough to be out
of the office and down at West Beach for filming today.
The gazebo itself when packed is 157 centimetres long
by about 22 centimetres wide by 27 centimetres,
so not quite a perfect square on the end here.
And it weighs about 24 kilos,
so it's heavy, but I can obviously lift this myself.
So it comes in a heavy duty storage bag
and we've got a couple of handles here.
One at the bottom and one at the top.
Now those handles are a pretty heavy duty webbing
and they're reinforced stitching there
and they've got this soft rubber handle
to make it easy for carrying.
Now whilst I'm talking about the carrying straps,
we've got corresponding on the back of the bag here
a couple of wheels which allow you
when you've only got one person
to just tilt the gazebo and drag it
with this top handle here
and the base will just roll along the bottom there.
So on this side of the gazebo we have a small little pocket.
That's gonna keep all your gazebo pins.
On the back of the gazebo here or the bag here
we've got this giant pocket and this keeps your canopy
and guy ropes and everything all stored.
(sighs) And we've also got a couple of webbing straps
with a quick release buckle both at the top and the bottom.
That's just to help take up any extra slack
in the bag if you've got it there after you've packed up.
And around the base we have this extra strip
of reinforced fabric and that's just
to stop the frame from wearing through the bottom.
So what I'll do is I'll undo these buckles
and lay this one down and we'll unpack the bag.
(zip rasping)
Pull the frame out like so.
Just pop the bag aside for now.
Now when you pull the frame outta the bag
you're gonna have one end
that's got these plastic knuckles on the corner
and you're gonna have the other end here
that's got these sort of half moon shaped feet.
So this is the end that we wanna have on the ground.
Now I'm also using our ex-demo model here as well.
So if you see a little bit of mud on the feet of the gazebo
it's just 'cause we've have used this one before.
Now from this point it's a good idea
before you get started with the frame
to have your canopy out, laid out ready to go.
But because we're at the beach today and it's really windy,
I don't want it off down into the horizon
while I'm trying to set the frame up.
So I've just left it packed up in the storage bag for now.
So what we're gonna do is expand the frame.
It's better done with an extra set of hands,
but it's still obviously achievable
with one person as I'm gonna show you today.
So each of the four legs are indicated
by these Velcro straps.
So what I'm gonna do is just grab both of these legs
and start sort of pulling them out to expand the frame.
And as I do this,
I'm sort of gonna give it a bit of a bounce
because they'll get to a point
where as much as you pull the frame
the frame's just gonna get dragged along,
it's not gonna keep expanding.
So when you get to that point,
best thing I've found
is to get your hand on the bottom
of one of these scissor struts
and push up as you are pulling the frame out
because what that actually does is keep the tension
on the square and as you can see
it pulls out the frame a lot easier.
Once we get to this point,
we're now gonna get our canopy.
'Cause if we extend the frame any further
it's gonna just be really high
and be a bit of a pain in the butt to get the canopy on.
So, we'll pull it out of the storage pocket like so.
So our four corners,
look for the OZtrail logo on your canopy,
that's a good place to start.
So that's gonna be one of our first corners.
So hopefully the wind's gonna help me
in getting this over the top of the frame.
So I'm gonna line up, as I mentioned before,
my logo with one corner of the gazebo.
Now what you'll also see on the underside
of the canopy are these two Velcro tabs
that obviously are gonna correspond with your legs.
So pop that on and give those Velcro tabs
a bit of a rubdown to make sure
that they are getting a good stick onto the frame.
So obviously because the frame isn't fully extended
the canopy doesn't have quite good tension yet.
So as we're expanding the frame further,
we just need to be mindful of that canopy catching
on any components of the frame
and also little hooks and bits like that.
So let's extend this frame out further.
Again, holding the bottom of that scissor strut
to keep the the square tension.
So at this point with one person
it's where it gets a bit tricky,
because your gazebo frame's gonna need
to be under a fair bit of tension
and to lock into place you need
to pull this grey hub up
and over this little locking pin here.
So on the very first leg that you're doing as one person,
that's gonna take a fair bit of muscle,
because you are actually physically pushing out
the tension of the whole frame yourself.
So we're almost there.
(locking pin clicks)
There we go.
Like so, so that's clicked into place now.
We've heard that nice little click
and we'll go around and do that on all four of our corners.
Now once that first corner's done as well
all the other corners are a lot easier.
So we're onto the last corner.
Now I haven't actually mentioned this yet
on any of the other legs,
but as you can see underneath
this little hub here we've got this little yellow tab.
So basically, obviously, you'll hear a click sound
when you move the hub up over that locking pin.
But secondary to that you'll also see
this little yellow button push out
and that's how you know that it's properly locked in place.
(locking pin clicks)
And from here we're gonna gonna go underneath the canopy.
And we'll see in the central point of each four sides
we've got our little hook and adjustment webbing strap.
So we're just gonna hook the base
of that underneath the frame there.
So whether or not you hook it onto this frame
or this frame or potentially even this frame here,
it's not that big a deal.
And then you can just pull
on this webbing strap here, sorry, to tension your canopy.
That comes in handy over time as well
if your canopy sort of stretches out
and sags a little bit with age,
those tensioning straps are really great.
So one thing I haven't mentioned
as well about these webbing straps
is as you can see they're reinforced there
by that extra bit of sort of PVC plastic.
So not only does that sort of,
I guess, reinforce the stitching and the webbing
for any tension that's gonna be
on these straps to protect the canopy,
but also as I'm tightening these
you can see it very much sits over
this hub on the frame here
and any sort of wear or tear of that frame rubbing
on that hub is gonna be protected by this reinforced patch.
So from here, once you've done all of your internal hooks
and you know your corners are Velcroed onto the frame,
the next step, as you can see through
the base of the foot there, you've got a couple of holes.
The next step would be pegging you gazebos down.
Because we're at the beach the sand pegs that we have
on hand aren't actually gonna fit through those holes.
So there's a couple of different options
that you can choose.
Either your sandbag kit, which we've got packed up there.
You've also got the option of a base pod kit,
which you can fill up with water,
which is nice and heavy that goes around all four legs.
But the other really important thing
that you absolutely do need to do
is to set your guy ropes up.
So we've got these sand pegs here
that don't come with the gazebo,
but we've grabbed them from the shop.
But you will get all the other guy ropes
that you need with your gazebo for setup.
But before I do those guy ropes
I am going to extend the legs up.
So similarly to the hub for the scissor lift frame
that we had up the top here,
we've got the same on the legs.
So I'm just gonna pull that one up
until it reaches its first locking point.
Again with the little yellow tab,
like it does at the top of the scissor lift strut,
that yellow tab is going to be tucked in,
but will pop out when we know the locking pin's in place.
(locking pin clicks)
So I'm just clicking this last leg into place.
Now the gazebo actually does have three height adjustments.
So where we are now
it's on the 193 centimetre tall height, which is the lowest.
Because I'm a bit of a shorty and I wanna attach
the guy ropes and peg them in I'm gonna leave it here,
but it also goes to 208 centimetres tall
or 223 centimetres tall.
So a couple of different height adjustments there.
Now as you can see, it's getting pretty windy
and the gazebo's getting a bit bustled around.
So I'm gonna get onto those guy ropes ASAP.
So on each of the four corners we've got
this little triangle strap
with a little sort of grey webbing loop.
That's where our guy rope's gonna go.
So that webbing loop runs all the way through
up the top of this triangle
and into the canopy frame itself.
So it's well stitched and reinforced.
Your guy rope has a little adjustable aluminium toggle
on it with a loop on one end.
That's gonna be the end that we keep on for our pegs.
So this raw end here is the end I'm gonna pop through
the loop like so and just tie into place.
Right, so from here I'm going to get one of my sand pegs.
Now obviously sand pegs here
because we're at the beach today,
but wherever it is that you are camping or picnicking,
just make sure you've got a peg that's suitable
for the ground you're intending to be in.
And we're gonna go around and do that on all four corners.
So I'm just gonna push that one in.
Fortunately it's nice and soft here today
so just my hand is enough.
So that's how you set up the original OZtrail Gazebo 3.0.
So because the wind has started picking up
a little bit here, I'm gonna pack down
in a slightly different order to what I did with packing up.
So first things first.
I'm just gonna drop all the legs down
as low as they'll go and hopefully
that will reduce any of that excess wind pressure.
So I'm just gonna be pressing into those yellow tabs
and releasing that locking pin down.
Now as the gazebos drop down
we've got a little bit of give in our guy ropes,
which should make it easy to pull all the pegs out.
Now the next thing we need to do
is before we can remove the canopy
we need to release the tension
on the scissor struts around the frame.
What I like to is put the heel of my hand
underneath the scissor strut to support it,
because there's a lot of tension in the frame.
And as soon as we press this button
it tends to wanna sort of shoot down with the force.
So to protect your hands or fingers
that you've got underneath here
we're just gonna hold up the scissor strut
while we press in the locking pin
and then slowly let that release down.
We're gonna do that in all four corners.
Right, so I've released those four corners.
I'm gonna really quickly pop in underneath the canopy now
and release all of these hooks
that I've had holding the canopy in place,
'cause they're holding that over the tension of the frame.
Won't collapse until we've done that.
So now we've released those hooks
the gazebo's gonna naturally wanna fold in on itself
and you can help it along like so.
Now whilst we're here,
before our canopy slides off down the beach,
I'm gonna pull it off and stash it away.
Definitely can be done
in a much sort of neat and more ordered fashion than that,
but I've been battling with the wind a little bit here
so I've sort of just had to make do.
Now that's folded up as sort of in a bit
of an elongated sausage, which is what you're aiming for.
In the side pocket of the bag here you can see
that rough sort of shape that you're going
for that will allow that to slip back
into that side pocket easily.
Like so.
All right, done!
So back to the frame.
From here we're just gonna do pretty much
the opposite of what we did when we're setting up
by sort of walking the frame back in
so it can collapse upon itself.
(frame rattling)
Like so.
So I'm just gonna carry this over to the storage bag
and put that down on its side.
Undo the zips.
Get the bottom of the gazebo.
Just position it into the bottom of the bag
making sure you've got all four
of those feet nicely tucked into the base.
Then the cover should be able to zip across the top,
and zip shut nicely with a bit of extra room.
Right, so I'm going to flip it over.
Now, as you saw before, when I put the canopy away,
there's a fair amount of room left in this storage pocket.
So if you are upgrading your pegs
to something like your sand pegs,
there's gonna be loads of room for you
to tuck them inside there as well.
You don't need to worry about carrying them separately.
So last but not least,
we've got our extra little webbing straps
and buckles that we'll just do up as an added precaution.
So that's about it
for the original OZtrail Deluxe 3.0 Gazebo.
As you can see, very manageable to do
by one person even in some trying conditions.
It's a great option to give you loads
of shade and undercover space when you are camping
or picnicking or on any daily adventures.
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