- I've got the 23 Zero Rambler's Den
set up behind me underneath my full drive awning.
It's an awesome edition to your four wheel drive awning
for extra living space
that I'm gonna take you for a walk through.
Let's check it out.
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Good day folks it's Ben from Snowys here today
at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park.
And this setup behind me is a 23 Zero Rambler's Den.
This is a addition to full drive awning,
so this across the top here is my full drive awning
that's attached to my vehicle
and underneath that and on the end of that
is the Rambler's Den, which consists of this room,
it's an enclosed room on the back here
and walls on the side.
There's no floor in this shelter
but it does provide a reasonably weatherproof shelter.
Or addition to your full drive awning.
Now, the kit comes in two different bags
the walls, and one the den and the other.
They're both measure about 80 centimetres in length
and about 15 to 20 centimetres in diameter.
And together they weigh a little bit over than 10 kilos.
Now the fabric it's made of is 150 denier
ripstop poly oxford or polyester.
It's got a 3000 millimetre water head.
It's the same fabric and the walls
are right throughout the tin.
But, it's not a completely waterproof shelter.
So this seams are seam sealed on the inside
but you can see there are gaps along the top
of the wall here between the awning and the wall.
And, the zips on these windows here are exposed,
although they do have a bit of a flap inside.
So, this gonna provide some protection
in a light shower, but it's not designed as a shelter
for really stormy or wet weather.
It's more of an outback use I suppose.
We're gonna get a shower, it's gonna move on
and weather is dry again.
So, we'll start with features on the outside
firstly on a bigger scale, this wall,
this panel here is a wall,
now, we don't have to set this up
it actually attaches to the room on the back here
with a zipper down here.
So, we could actually remove this entire section if we like.
Same on the other side
and create a complete walk through space.
Alternatively with this wall attached
we can open the doors on here,
they're both solid and mesh doors,
on the wall, on each wall.
And there's no floor in the shelter
so this doesn't provide a seal protection
on the bottom here, but there is this little storm flap.
it still gives us reasonable protection from the bugs.
If we open this up completely,
we can roll these doors back,
against the side of the wall here.
And, that gives us a pretty good access way
through in underneath the awning there
and access to the rear room there as well.
But before we jump in and look at that
we'll keep moving right on the outside.
Moving on to the actual room,
a little den bit at the back here.
There are two triangular doors here,
these can be zipped open and rolled open like this,
that just reveals a mesh panel there.
So, plenty of ventilation to get inside the tent.
But let's open this one up down here as well.
We've almost created a completely open side.
So the team, if we come around to the rear of the tent here
we've got one big window here
that can be set up in one or three ways.
Firstly, zipped closed like this,
it's a little velcro tap on the bottom here to keep that
protected from wind and a bit of light rain.
If it's wind driven rain
there's not a big flap here to stop water getting up
and potentially in through the mesh here
but light rain is going to be fine.
Secondly, if we undo the first zip
on each side here it reveals,
I've just got to undo,
to the bottom zip up there.
We can peg this out as a gusseted awning
over the top of the window to allow ventilation
whilst keeping the rain out.
And, the third option is to unzip these gussets as well
and roll the window up completely.
So, that we allow more ventilation inside the shelter.
Peg this up or pin this up,
sorry with the tabs at the top here
and now we've got ventilation
almost right across the back of the shelter here,
as well as those windows on the side,
so it's creating a nice airy space.
Coming around to the other side of the shelter here
we got the same deal as we saw on the opposite side.
The two triangular windows here for ventilation.
We've got them zipped closed at the moment,
and then we've got another wall
which is a mirror of what we saw on the other side
there's a gap across the top,
zipped to the shelter in the back here
so we can remove it completely.
Or alternatively we got double doors here
for access in underneath the awning window.
I'm gonna step inside.
Now the steppy inside under the awning section here
so, this, this fabric above me here
is my four wheel drive awning that's attached to my car.
Now this is a 2.5 by 2.5 metre awning
so, that den fits any awning that's 2.5 metres wide
with a sail track but, if we want to use the walls as well
we need an awning that comes 2.5 metres out
from the car as well, otherwise,
this gonna be a little bit short.
You can probably still use them
you just gonna have extra fabric bunched up
on the side there.
You see across the top of the wall here we do have this gap,
so it doesn't provide that full weatherproof seal,
inside or under the shelter here,
but it's still gonna provide a little bit of rain protection
and certainly a lot of wind and sun protection.
With regards to height,
it's depicted a little bit on the height
if your actual awning or where it's attached to the car
but, these walls are about 1.9 metres high,
down to where the mud flap starts
to creep out away from the shelter,
and the den itself on this side here,
is about 1.9 metres at it's highest
to allow for this flaps to sit out against the ground there
so I'm 195 centimetres, I've got a good amount of space
in here to walk and I can almost walk
through this door without ducking.
I'm talking at this door
this is the entrance to our little den.
At the rear here, this is also a double door
so we've gotta solid panel here
that we can roll back
and secure it from the side here if we like.
And then we've got a mesh panel as well
and you'll notice too,
in this den here that there's no floor
we probably wanna put a ground sheet
or something down in here if we want ground cover.
So the floor to ground, doesn't actually have a seal in it.
And coming into this space here,
as I mentioned it's 190 centimetres to the top about 195
to the door here, and that's depending how high
we've actually got the awning set up here.
And the roof slopes away pretty much
immediately as we step in.
So, we don't have a lot of standing space
inside the tent here
but in terms of floor space
we got 250 centimetres from wall to wall this way.
And it's about 160 centimetres from this central wall here
to where this roughly meets the ground at the back here.
Now, it's not a lot of usable space
in terms of how we might put a stretch
or something in here, cause of that slope
but certainly lots of storage,
and we can certainly fit one stretcher in here.
Before I do that, I'll just talk about other features
you got one little storage pocket,
mesh storage pocket just hanging at the back
on the bottom of the window here
you can see the windows on the side here
they're zipped closed on this side here
we've got them opened up on the other side there
and you can also see,
just the two poles that are needed for setup
of this tent inside, just a couple of steel poles,
to keep this head high
or gives a little bit more room inside here.
I'm gonna grab the stretcher
which is a King Single Stretcher, put it in here
and show you how you might be able
to use the space to sleep in.
Okay, now so this stretcher
is about 210 centimetres in length
and about 80 centimetres in width.
So, it's a good space or sleeping space for one in here,
I can't push it too far back
because this wall slopes back
and you're gonna be sleeping up against the wall here.
So, it's probably best just forward
a little bit on the shelter here,
then you've got storage space for bags
and things down the back there as well
and they've got a little bit of room at each end.
But, on top of that if you need space
for changing clothes or anything obviously
you've got that shelter up underneath your awning here.
That's pretty much all the features
of the 23 Zero Rambler's Den.
An awesome edition for your 2.5 by 2.5 metre
four wheel drive awning.
Easy to set up and reasonably light weight
for the amount of extra space you get.
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