Howdy fellow campers, Ben from Snowys again with a unique product today, the RS-1
Swag from Oztent. Now I say unique because it's, it's kind of a it's, it's been a bit
of talk over whether it's a swag or a tent? It's got the same pole structure
as the RV tents, it sets up in the same way but it's compact, sort of almost the
size of a swag. As you can see it's not the smallest pack size, but it is quite
sturdy when it's set up. And it packs up and sets up and packs away
really easily. I want to show you how easy that is today and so I'm gonna
start by just pulling everything out the bag and showing you what's included. So
the bag folds open a bit like a clamshell. Inside we've got the main swag,
the frame, the out of fabric. Get a couple of alloy awning poles. We won't set that up
today but there is an awning out the front that you can use these to set it
up with. You get quite a few, quite heavy duty pegs - they're nice and thick sturdy pegs
and a couple of heavy-duty guy ropes to set that awning up out the front as well.
Now this thing here which is clipped inside the bag is the mat. Now the mat
doesn't fold up inside the swag, it fits inside the bag but not inside the swag.
I'ts only 2 and half centimetre mat, but it's still pretty comfortable for the
thickness of it. You can always get a thicker mat to upgrade your, your swag to be
more comfortable. I'll put this aside, we'll grab this and I'll show you how
easy it is to set up. Now there is an order to how this is packed away so I
guess we should do it in reverse when we unpack it, so we fold this floor away
you'll notice there's an 'A' here and a 'B' here. Now when you pack it away you
fold A first and then B second, so when you unpack it, unfold B first
out this way and then unfold A, out this way. So that's going to be the front of our tent,
this is the back here. I need to come around the front. So, I've just put one foot
inside the tent here, I'll grab this strap and I just pull this front up and
over till it's upright. From here, I need to
step inside the tent and on each side there are arms I just need to lock in place to
keep it in, keep it nice and secure. And inside here at each end there's a little note on each wall,
there's a Velcro tab that we need to do up after we put those in place, so I'll show
you what they are. Pretty much set up. I haven't put any guy ropes or pegs but
there's plenty of peg points on the bottom, across the back with the guy ropes, if
you put all them in place then you maximise the amount of space inside the tent. You
also make it nice and sturdy should the weather get sour. I'll show you this
awning, I'm not going to set it up in full today, but I do want to just show
you the way that it can be set up. So this is rolled up, so you're not using it
at all at the moment. You unroll this, you can actually use the two awning poles that
come with the tent. To set this up as an awning, either up like this, or they're
adjustable so you can set it up to about this sort of a height, which obviously
creates shelter in the front of your, your swag. Now this also doubles as a
fly sheet. It's permanently attached across here. If you fold it backwards and attach
the included guy ropes to the eyelets on the corner here and peg it out this way,
once that's in place, peg down there so the tent doesn't move, this then acts as
a fly, that it's silver coated, reflects the heat, keeps the temperature inside
the tent down, also reduces the instance of condensation inside the tent on a
cold night. That's pretty much all there is to setup of the Oztent RS-1 Swag,
nice and simple. Pack up is almost as simple. I'll show
you how that's done. So the first thing we want to do
is roll the awning up and out the way - not crucial but it saves collapsing fabric
getting in the way while you're trying to collapse the tent down. Once we've got
this rolled up, we need to jump inside the tent again and undo the Velcro tab
before, so that we can collapse the frame down.
So I've released the poles on both ends, I've got hold of my strap here and the tent
now just folds down nice and flat again. Now this is where our alphabet comes into play again. We've got
A and B. First one we grab is side A and fold that up towards the top here then
we grab side B, also fold that towards the top. Which gives us a little triangle of fabric here that
we can just fold up and over.
That's the swag packed away. We've just gotta get it back in the bag now. The first
thing we put in is, is the mat. Now there are straps inside the bag here to hold
the mat in place.
So, we'll just do them up.
Now the bag folds this way, handles at the top, so make sure you lay
the fold in the same direction or the same, parallel to where the handles are.
Then we just put the swag on top.
Put our pegs and poles in.
Pegs down here.
Fold it in half.
And then ease this zipper shut. Now I will admit, the bag is a little tight lengthwise.
So, it's probably easier to stand it on it's end. Give it a bit of a shake.
So, that's a little tight lengthwise. It would probably stretch a little after
a bit of use. But that is the Oztent RS-1 Swag or miniature tent, whatever
you want to call it. You can pick them up off our website at lowest prices every
day, free delivery Australia-wide -
www.snowys.com.au
Thanks, again for watching.
And we'll see you next time.