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- Hi guys, Ben from Snowys here today
with the Oztent RV-4 Canvas Touring tent
set up behind me here.
It's one of them popular tents in Oztent's RV range.
Oztent says it's a four to five-person tent.
Realistically, it's a comfortable sort of two to four.
Heaps of room for two, comfortable three.
Now it's quite long when packed up.
This is the storage bag I've got with me here now.
So it's about two metres in length
so you do need to have a trailer or a roof rack
to be able to transport this.
It's not so good for people with small vehicles.
I'll talk about the fabrics the tent's made of.
This is an eight-ounce, polycotton ripstop canvas.
It's waterproof around and it seems sealed.
Now this has been in their tents for a long time,
it's a tried-and-tested fabric, it's really durable
but it doesn't add too much extra weight to the tent.
It's 23 kilos, so it's not the lightest
but it's still a nice, durable tent.
In our doors and windows,
we've got a nice seam, insect-proof mesh
and we've got the vents up the top here
and there is a mesh door in the entrance way here
and the frame inside here
and the alloy poles at the front here,
round aluminium poles are all a durable aluminium.
So coming around to the side of the RV-4,
first thing is this little pocket here.
That's where the guy ropes are secured.
We haven't got that set up today.
Always use the guy ropes if you're staying
or leaving for long periods or if it's windy.
Below that, we've got a mesh window.
Inside that mesh window is a storm flap,
an internally adjustable storm flap.
Keep moving around to the rear here.
I've got another guy rope pocket at the top here
that's mirrored on the other corner as well,
and then a large window at the back here
with a big storm flap that's rolled up here at the moment.
Now this has got multiple set up options.
There's three tabs here that I can undo.
So the first set up option is to have it open like this.
We can roll it closed and zip it up here.
There's a nice big overlap here with the fabric
so that there's no water gonna get in.
Alternatively, there's three guy ropes
and a little stiffener bar in here
so we can actually peg this out
like a small awning over the window,
just keep the rain out but allow a bit of breeze through.
Now, just before I get around to the front,
I will mention this little zip at the top here.
There's a half zip.
You might be wondering what that's for.
That's to attach accessories like the fly.
We'll show you in another video how that works
but yeah, you need accessories to attach to that.
So as we come round to the front of the tent here,
we'll look at the entrance to the sleeping area.
At the top of each door is a mesh vent.
This is vented in the main door here.
These are really important because it's a single skin tent.
On cold nights, where you're warm inside
and it's cold on the outside,
you can get condensation inside the fabric.
These help to mitigate that by allowing hot air to escape,
you get less condensation, so make sure you use these vents.
This one's rolled up, this one's closed.
Rolled up is probably a good spot for those.
Now, at the front here, we've got a solid panel door
and a mesh panel door behind it.
These have got zippers, a T zipper to close them all up.
And I haven't mentioned the floor yet
but this is a heavy-duty PVC heat welded floor,
a really durable and tough floor.
Jump inside and show you what's in here.
So sitting inside the RV-4 here now,
as with all Oztent products,
it's simple and it's functional.
I'll start at the base.
A couple of storage pockets, there's one on this side
and one on this side just for your essentials.
As we move up the walls,
we can see that durable aluminium frame
that Oztent's well-known for.
On each side, we've got the window
that we looked at from the outside
with internally adjustable storm flaps
so we can open and close this from the inside.
That is also mirrored on the other side here
also with another storm flap.
While I'm in this corner here,
I'll also mention this little power access point
in the corner here.
You can open this on both the inside and the outside,
it just gives you access for the cords
that come through in this bottom corner.
As we move up the tent, there's not much more.
Simple, functional.
There's no lantern hooks or anything here.
You could hang a lantern off this back bit here
if you wanted a lightweight lantern,
but that's pretty straightforward.
So looking at the space inside the RV-4 here,
Oztent say a four to five person tent,
it's gonna be a very squeezy four to five person tent.
I think realistically, it's quite a livable two
and a comfortable three.
Now, you've got 240 centimetres from wall to wall here
but the frame does impede on that a little bit
and about 240 centimetres this way too
but you've got this sloping wall at the back.
It's also important to notice that this frame here
finishes short of the back.
This is actually where the RV-3 finishes,
and the RV-4 has got this extra space here
so if you've got a mat here,
it is gonna sit on top of this bar,
just something to keep in mind.
You've got 1.9 metres in height at the front there
and obviously that slopes down pretty quickly at the back
so I can only stand up at the very front of the tent.
A lot of people wanna know,
can they fit a stretcher inside here.
You can.
I've actually got a King Goanna Stretcher with me now.
I'm just gonna grab it and put it in there
and show you how it fits.
So I've got the King Goanna Stretcher here
from Oztent in the RV-4.
Now this is 210 centimetres long,
it's 80 centimetres wide here
but these poles at the end are actually 92 centimetres
and it's 48 centimetres high.
Now I've got this in the tent,
but it is quite firm up against the end here,
so if your head's in here, or your feet,
you're gonna be touching this end of the tent.
So can you fit them in here?
Yes, you could fit two in here
with a bit of space in the middle, but it's pretty tight.
You could put it the other way around.
I'll show you how that works.
So I'll switch the King Goanna Stretcher around now
and it fits quite comfortably lengthwise this way
and you could actually fit a second one in here
but you don't have any walking space around the stretchers
and you've got a bit of wasted space down the back here
So an answer to the question,
can you fit stretchers in the RV-4?
One, definitely.
Two, yes but with two,
you're not gonna have much walking space
around the stretcher.
One other thing I wanna mention
about all the Oztent RV Tents
is that this frame, all the parts are replaceable.
So the instance that you should unfortunately experience
any damage, you can get spare parts to fix the frame
and get your tent back on the road.
Now, you can pick them up off our website at snowys.com.au
with lowest prices everyday
with free delivery to just about anywhere in Australia.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.
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