- This is the 23Zero Ramblers Den
an awesome addition to your four-wheel drive awning
and I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and pack it away.
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G'day folks, this is Ben from Snowys here today
down at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park
and today I've got a unique product
called the 23Zero Ramblers Den.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and pack it away.
Now, when you get your Ramblers Den,
it comes like this in two bags.
One of these bags is the walls,
the other bag is the actual den.
So, by that I mean, an extra room that
fits out this side of the awning,
that I've got set up behind me here,
and the walls that will fit on each side
of the awning,
to create a bit more of an enclosed living space.
Now these measure about 3.6 kilos
for the walls and about six and a half
or 6.7 kilos for the den,
and they measure about 80 centimetres long.
The wall is about 15 centimetres in diameter
and the den about 20 centimetres.
To get started, I'll first show you
what comes in these bags.
Okay, so we've got in the bag with the walls in it,
you get your two walls rolled up here
and you get a few pegs here to set it up
and they're reasonable quality pegs
I'd say they're medium Juicy.
Then in the actual Ramblers Den,
or the shelter section,
you get the tent, here, bag of pegs
once again, a couple of guy ropes
and the two poles that you need
that go inside the shelter to set it up.
Now, there are also these little caps in,
this is the first time I set it up
but I'm going to assume that these caps
are going to go on the end of the spigots here,
to, perhaps, could be to stop rain getting in,
it might go on the outside or it might go on
the inside, to just support it against the fabric,
but we'll work that out as we go.
Now, you can set the den and the walls up independently.
The den itself here, will fit a two and a half
metre wide awning.
It attaches via a sail track that's attached
to the den here, that slides into a sail track
on the end of the awning.
So, provided your forward-drive awning,
or whatever you wanna attach it to
has got a six millimetre sail track
this will attach on it at two and a half metres long.
If you wanna use the walls with it as well,
you're gonna need an awning that is
two and a half metres out from the car,
'cause these walls are two and a half metres in width.
I've got a two and a half by two and a half
metre awning setup behind me here today,
so we're gonna set it all up
as one big shelter.
The first thing we're gonna do is attach the den,
via the sail track here,
in the sail track on the end of the awning.
Now, I've just oriented the den the right way here,
so I know I've got it right because
this side here, I've got this zipper doorway,
it's a big D doorway.
That faces in towards the awning
and I can see down on the base here,
I've got the 23Zero Ramblers Den logo,
that's at the far end of the shelter.
So, I need to now find the other end
of this sail track and slide it up in
to the six millimetre sail track that
exists on this awning here.
Just while we do that we just make sure
these poles are done up nice and firm
'cause it's gonna put extra weight downwards
on this end of the awning.
So I've got this in the sail track now.
What I might do before I go any further
is just adjust the height of my awning here,
so that the peg point here, sits at the right spot.
Now there are actually mud flaps,
or flaps that sit on the bottom of this,
so these are designed to sit flat on the ground,
but this is a little bit long,
so I'm just gonna lengthen these poles out
so that this sits just a little bit
above the ground here.
This peg point here sits just a little bit
above the ground.
Now, there's no instructions that come with the
Ramblers Den here,
so I'm guessing a little bit on the best
way to set this up,
but what I'm gonna do
is put the pegs around the base,
starting against the awning here.
So I'll put this in place on each side here,
and then I'll peg the far points out
and then we can put the poles in place.
So, I've just got the four corners
pegged out at the moment
and before I go any further,
I'm just gonna jump inside the tent
and put the poles in place.
They actually go inside and come up
through the eyelets here, to hold that out.
I just wanna make sure the tent looks
like it's all in roughly the right place
before I put all the pegs in.
Okay, I put some guy ropes in place
just to peg all this out
so it's just taut across the top
and this is where our little plastic caps
end up, come into play here.
These will go over the top of the spigot here,
and seal down on top of the eyelet,
to just stop water getting in.
Now, it's not a completely weather-proof shelter.
It's reasonably waterproof.
It's not sealed on the bottom
and the walls aren't actually sealed
along the top when we put them on,
but this is at least gonna stop water dripping
right down in the middle of the shelter.
I can now put the guy rope over the top of this,
peg it out and do the same on the other side.
That's the guy ropes in place.
You can go around and adjust
the four corner pegs if you like now,
just to get any extra sag out of the fabric,
make sure it's pitched nicely,
and then it's just the pegs around the base
that I've gotta put in.
So three across the back,
I think there's three across the front
and one on each side here.
(hammer pounding)
As you do your pegs around the base,
just pull these mud flaps out as far as you can.
They're just there to help the water flow
down and away from the tent,
'cause there's no actual floor in the den.
Okay, so I've got the den portion all set up now
and all pegged up,
so we can attach the walls.
I've got one of the walls here.
Now, there is a left and a right way
of setting this up,
because the zipper only features on one side.
This side here has just got a plain edge,
that goes up against the vehicle.
So this wall here, given that the 23Zero
is on this side, actually goes on
the far side of the tent,
and this wall here, fixes on to this side.
Now, best way to attach them
I'd suggest first would be to
zip it, against the den here.
There is a Velcro storm flap to go
over the top of the zip here as well,
so we'll just put that in place
and then, the wall can, in the instance
of this awning, the wall can go outside
of this pole here.
So it may depend on the configuration of your awning
whether you pass this on the inside
or the outside of the pole.
So I can now go along here and get these Velcro tabs
and hang the wall up on our awning like this.
And the last loop, up against the vehicle
has got really long, a really long loop on it
and that allows you to put it
right around the awning or around a roofrack
or whatever you've got to attach it to, to your vehicle.
So I'm actually gonna loop it
through the roof-rack, over the top
of the awning here, and attach it like this
and that's gonna give it good purchase
up against the vehicle there.
So that's the wall hung, all we need to do now
is put the pegs in on the base.
There's four on each side and you got
these mud flaps too, that we can just stretch out
to help the water run away from the shelter,
And we do the same on the other side.
So that is the Ramblers Den
and the walls all set up.
There's a few other things we can do.
We've got double doors on each side here
that we can roll open or close,
that's in the walls there.
We've got windows on these sides here
that we can roll open if we like.
There's four more guy ropes
that I haven't set up here today,
that you could peg out for stability.
If you pegs these ones out in the back here
it might create a little bit
of extra internal space.
And last of all, just on the back of the tent here
is this large window that I just wanna show you
set up options here.
Firstly, you can leave it zipped closed like this,
there's a Velcro tab in the middle here
to keep it closed for keeping most
of the wind and weather out.
You can unzip it completely
and roll it all the way open,
to expose the large mesh window there,
or alternatively, there is a gusset in here,
so if we zip this gusset up
and use these included guy ropes,
we can pet this out as a gusseted awning
over the window to allow ventilation
and keep a bit of rain out.
Bearing in mind that it's not a
completely weather-proof shelter,
we do have gaps underneath and across the top
of the walls at the side there,
but it still is gonna keep out
a reasonable amount of rain.
Now pack up is probably easier than setup.
So we're gonna start by undoing the Velcro tabs
on the walls and unzipping it from the den
at the rear. We'll pack the walls away
and then we'll take the den down.
Now to remove the den at the rear here,
first thing we're gonna do
is take these guy ropes off
and put these little caps in a safe spot,
I'll put 'em in my pocket for now
so I don't lose 'em.
I'll go inside and take these poles out
from the inside
and then I can take all the pegs out
from around the base.
So I've got the pegs out from around the base.
What I'm gonna do though,
I've forgotten to do this before,
is just do this door up.
It's gonna make it easier to roll the tent,
make it small to get back in the bag,
if this door is done up
and all the windows as well,
so there's no big lumps of fabric.
From this point, I can go
and slide this out of the sail track
on the top here.
Roll it up, put it back in the bag.
That is how to setup and pack away
the Ramblers Den from 23Zero.
That was nice and easy by myself,
certainly easy with a second set of hands,
but it's a great addition
to your four wheel drive awning.
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