- This is the Malamoo 4-Hub Beach Shelter by Oztent.
It's a really easy to set up, transportable, and sturdy
beach shelter for a day out in the sun,
and I'm gonna show you how to set it up,
and how to pack it away, so let's get rolling.
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Hey folks, Ben from Snowys here,
today we're at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park
on a beautiful sunny day,
showing you some beach shelters, we didn't get to the beach,
we're at the park instead, but this is the
Malamoo 4-Hub Beach Shelter by Oztent.
It's a really easy to set up, lightweight, portable shelter,
and we're gonna show you how to set it up
and pack it away today, this is how it comes,
measures about 3 and a half kilos by my measurements,
maybe a little bit under, about 110 centimetres in length
and about 15 centimetres in diameter
depending on how much you squish it up.
So inside your bag, you're getting the main tent,
all the poles and everything
are all contained within one there.
You get four of these bags, these are sandbags,
I'll show you where you can probably attach them
a little bit later.
You get all the pegs you need to set it up in hard ground,
and they're just metal pegs, if you're setting it up
in sand, you can either use these sandbags or
you might wanna get yourself some sand pegs to do so,
and then this is a little storage pocket that just clips in
in the side of the tent,
we'll show you that shortly as well.
First thing I need to do to set it up is grab this centre
section and spread all the arms out
so they're flat on the ground.
Alright now, I've got the orientation,
I'll show to you right now,
we know which way the front is by the Malamoo logo here,
that's the floor coming out the front.
Now we need to invert the hubs, so the tent takes shape,
and just be aware of the wind and stuff,
'cause if you do this, the tent's not secure yet,
you might need someone else just to hold it still for you
so it doesn't blow away.
Now to set it up we first do the side walls,
to set those walls up we come inside the tent,
or you could go on the outside as well if you like,
there is a handle here that you can use to pull the hub,
I actually find it's easier to push it,
because you can kinda get your foot on the fabric inside,
but we wanna push this until it inverts and pops into place,
so that's now popped into place,
we do that on all three sides,
and then we can pop the roof up as well.
So that's all three walls, in a--
Secured now, they're nice and tight
'cause the hubs are inverted,
now we just do the roof as well, this is the fourth hub
hence the name 4-Hub, we might just need to hold the wall
to keep it secure to the ground as we push up on this,
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pop into place, from here, make sure you hold onto it
so the wind doesn't take it, we can go around,
there's six peg points in the base, to hold it in place.
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So that's all the pegs in and around the base, six of them,
now there's three guy ropes that we can put in place,
there's three more pegs that come with your kit
to be able to secure that,
and that's gonna make the tent really secure.
If you don't put the guy ropes in,
these walls could potentially invert in the wind,
so it is important to use these.
Now, you've got a few options with the guy ropes as well as
the anchors at the base there, you could use these
bags, and it's just a drawtop bag, as a sandbag,
if I was to use this as a guy rope, for example,
I can just loop
the bag through itself here to attach it to the guy rope,
and if I was to fill this with sand, that could then become
an anchor by itself, if I wanna make a really good anchor,
I'd dig a hole in the ground and bury this while it's
full of sand in that hole and cover it with sand,
and it becomes a really secure anchor.
For today, though, because I'm not on the beach,
I'm gonna use the latter of the remaining three pegs
to put the three guys in place,
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and I'll then be able to show you
just how sturdy the tent is.
So that's all three guys in place and you see the tent now--
apart from here, kinda moves a little bit at the front here,
but overall it's actually pretty sturdy,
sort of a structure, moves around a little bit.
Last thing that we can do before pack up is
a little pocket here that comes with your kit,
little double-mesh pocket, there's loops on the side here
that correlate with these clips so you can clip it.
Either side, there's little loops here on both sides
so that you can keep your phone, or your keys,
or just your necessities up and out of the sand.
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That's the setup of the 4-Hub Beach Shelter from Malamoo
by Oztent, pack-up's just as easy, first thing you do is
take all the pegs out, and then we'll start to invert
all the hubs.
Now pulling the pegs out, the wind's just picked up
a little bit here today, so I'm just keeping hold of the
tent so it doesn't blow away.
I'll start by collapsing the roof here, now I can just put
my hand in the middle here and push it down to invert it,
the tent will start to collapse down, we do that on
all four sides, I just push them all in the other way,
and just let it all fall in on itself, you shouldn't have to
force it in, it should always just fall and collapse neatly
on itself, so now this section here is the roof,
still facing up, I'm just gonna fold all the arms up
towards the middle, now that should fold easily,
if you feel a bit of tension, just give it a wiggle so that
they all come together where there aren't any force
into the middle there.
If you feel any force, then it just means the poles are
caught on either each other or some fabric.
So the poles have neatly come up in the middle there now,
land on its side, flatten the fabric out a little bit,
roll it up, and it'll go back in the bag.
That is how you set up and pack away the Malamoo 4-Hub
Beach Shelter by Oztent, goes back in the bag really easily,
set up really easily, all by myself, the only time I'd
probably need help is if it was particularly windy.
I reckon they're a great family beach shelter,
and it's also sturdy too.
You can grab'em online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices every day.
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