- These are the Turbo 300 tents from BlackWolf.
I'm gonna show you how to set them up
and pack them away.
So let's get started.
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Hi guys, Ben from Snowys here today
down on the BIG4 West Beach Holiday Park.
This holiday park's right in Adelaide's
western suburbs and it is a really easy getaway
for you or your whole family
and it's fully equipped, plenty to do for everyone.
I've got some space here today
to show you some of our products.
And these are the BlackWolf Turbo 300 tents
in front of me here.
This is the Turbo Lite 300, this is the Turbo 300.
So, a canvas material and a synthetic material.
Weigh about 22 kilos for the light one,
26 kilos for the heavier one,
and they both measure about 140 to 145 centimetres in length
by about 32 and 28 centimetres for the lite here
and this one's a little bit bulkier, probably
more like around 33, 35 plus 30 centimetres
'cause of the thicker fabric.
I'm gonna show you how to set them up
and pack them away today and let's get started.
So I've set-up the Turbo 300 Lite behind me here
and I'm gonna step you through the set-up
of the Turbo 300 and the canvas here.
Only real difference is that this is slightly heavier
and a little bit more cumbersome to use,
'cause the fabrics weigh more
but the whole process is exactly the same.
When you buy your Turbo 300 tent this is what
you get in your bag, this is the main portion of the tent.
You get your fly sheet.
There's five poles, two uprights for the side of the awning
and a longer central upright for the middle of the awning.
You know it's the central one
because it's got two black ferrules on it.
And then, these two poles here make up
the centre ridge pole.
They actually clip together to hold the awning up in place.
And you get a bag of pegs with all the guy ropes
and things you need to set-up all your windows
as gusseted awnings as well.
First thing I need to do is grab the inner tent,
spread it out and peg the four corners.
One thing I noticed when setting up the other tent
is that I pulled these corners really tight
when I pegged it out and it wasn't quite exactly square
and the frame ended up being a bit skewed.
So when you peg these out just give it a little
bit of play so that frame can adjust
when it pops into place.
Once I've got this one pegged in,
I can lock all four knuckles on the corners in place
and push the centre hub up.
That is the inner tent all set-up.
To pop this into place, all you need to do
is step inside, get your hand up underneath
the black hub, just gently push it up
and eventually it just pops into place.
Now grab the fly, throw it over the top.
So on each leg there's Velcro tabs in underneath
to attach it to the frame.
You've got one at the top here.
There's another one about two-thirds, half
or two-thirds of the way down.
And then, the bottom part of this then clips
in through a side release clip at the bottom here.
From there we've got two pegs on each corner to peg out
and apart from the awning, we're all done with the fly.
Now we've just gotta set-up our awning.
I've got my three awning poles
with the longest one in the centre here.
And I need to set-up the ridge pole.
Now I'm gonna put the two parts together
and there's a little push button on one side of this
that locates in the hole on the other side here.
We just put them together push this in.
Slide it in so it locates in this place.
There we go.
And this extends, this collar here undoes and tightens.
So we can put tension across the ridge of the awning.
I'm gonna leave that shortened now.
And this hook on the end here actually locates
in a little hole located in
the hub at the top of the tent there.
So we gotta crawl under the awning here and put it in place.
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So I just wanna put some tension along
this ridge line here.
So I can undo this collar,
stretch the pole out until it's nice and tight
and then tighten this collar up
and it stops the pole from collapsing in.
Now I just put the guy ropes in on the front of the awning.
So that is our Turbo 300 all set-up,
we've just gone around and made a few adjustment
to guy ropes and poles to make sure
it's all kinda sitting straight.
You might need to adjust a few pegs.
There are a few other things we can do for set-up
and we do always recommend using guy ropes.
There's two on each corner in these pockets here.
You can use one peg for both guy ropes
or two different pegs if you like
but if you set all them up,
it's gonna increase the stability of your tent
so definitely use them if the weather's really poor.
The second thing we can do for set-up
is these windows can be set-up in one of three ways.
Firstly, they can be zipped closed like this.
There's a Velcro tab on the bottom to keep it protected.
You could roll it open completely
if the weather's nice for ventilation.
You can roll this up.
There's tabs at the top here to secure it up the top.
Or there are actually gussets incorporated into
the window so the second zip
underneath here can be zipped closed.
There's an eyelet in the outer edge of the window here.
There's extra guy ropes included your kit.
Put a guy rope on here and peg it out
and you can create a gusseted window
so you get ventilation through the tent
and keeping all the rain out still.
That is how you set-up the Turbo 300 tent.
Pack-up is just as easy.
I'm gonna start by pulling the awning down.
Pegs and poles out and get the fly off.
So I've got the awning down.
I've unclipped the fly from the corners
and removed all the pegs.
I've also undone all the Velcro tabs attaching
it to the pole.
I can now pull this fly off the tent,
fold it up and put it back in the bag with all the poles
and then we can pack the inner away.
So I've got the fly off.
I've still got all four pegs in the corners.
It's a good idea in case there's a windy day.
You've got the pegs secured to, the tent secured
to the ground all the time.
Now, to pack the inner away, we step inside the tent,
we grab the handle on the roof and we pull it down.
That'll then collapse the top of tent in
and then we can press each button on
the knuckles, on the corners,
and the whole frame folds in on itself.
So I've taken all four pegs down now
so the tent's just sitting here loose.
The frame is all collapsed down ready to fold away.
Now, as I fold this up into the middle
these tabs, that are on the end of where our pegs go,
form two purposes.
They also loop over the knuckle of the frame,
so as we fold it up, these stay in place.
You can see without that in place
it's just gonna fall away.
So this means we don't need as many hands
to hold the frame as it folds away.
There's also one strap that goes around the middle
once they're all folded in the centre here
to stop them all from falling out as well.
So always better with how to fold these neatly
to get them back in the bag without
the fabric being really bulky.
And I actually paid attention to a new one
being unfolded one day and worked it out.
You wanna try and get this kind of square shape
or diamond shape here.
So what I've done is, you sort of push this fabric
in under here to create one, two flaps on this side.
Same on the other side.
And then pull the floor right out to a corner here.
Now, if we fold this up to the middle here,
we can then fold this over the top.
The fabric's nice and flat there
for us to now roll it up and secure it with our strap.
And it should go back in the bag nice and easily.
And that is the Turbo 300 packed away back in its bag.
Now that went back in relatively easily.
I still got a bit of space in the bag here,
so it was certainly worth taking
the time to make sure it folded away nice and flat.
Now, the Lite that I'll pack away shortly
packs up in exactly the same manner
but it's far easier to handle
and the fabrics tend to pack down much better
just being that lighter material.
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