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- Howdy campers, Ben from Snowys today
with the Oztent RV4 Canvas Touring Tent,
and this is one of the more popular tents
in the Oztent range.
Now Oztent's say it's a four-to-five person tent.
Realistically, it's probably a comfortable
two-to-three person tent.
Two people will fit in there with plenty of baggage,
even maybe a table inside.
This is how it looks as it comes in the bag.
It's about two metres in length,
200 centimetres, 30 centimetres this way roughly,
and about 20 centimetres this way,
so you will need a roof rack or a trailer to transport it.
Now I'm going to show you how to set it up
and how to pack it away today.
First thing though, I'll show you what comes in the bag.
So this is what comes in the bag.
This is the carry bag here.
It's a synthetic carry bag.
Now we've got the main portion of the tent here.
This is the tent fabric and the tent frame
all rolled up into one.
Get your instruction menu with some repair patches inside.
This has got a couple
of guy ropes and I have the pegs inside.
These are good pegs,
and to get two aluminium
upright awning poles inside this bag here.
So I'm gonna put this stuff aside
and first thing we do is unfold the tent,
so it does come with a strap around it,
just undo that strap and put it somewhere and don't lose it.
Now we unfold this first bit
and it's a little bit of a triangle here.
Wherever this points is gonna be in the front of the tent.
That's the floor of the tent that we're seeing there.
Now from here we can see that there are actually two arms,
they're labelled A and B.
So this has got a B on this side here.
When it's packed up, B's the last one we fold in,
so it's the first one
that gets folded out when we set it up.
So just fold this out like this,
and then we grab arm A which is labelled here,
and we fold this out too.
Now if it's a windy day,
it can be a good idea
to stick a couple of pegs into this stage,
just because from here
we're gonna actually lift the tent up.
We don't want the wind to catch it.
It's pretty calm here today, so we don't need to worry.
The next portion to set up is to step into the side,
into the doorway here,
and up underneath the door is,
there should be a little tag, there we go,
with Oztent written on it.
We'll grab hold of that and lift the front of the tent up.
So once we've got the front of the tent upright,
we actually need to step inside the tent,
so just put your hand up under here and hold this up
before I let go or it will collapse now.
We need to invent the poles inside to hold it in place,
so just come inside here.
So while we're holding the top of the tent up here,
we grab these arms on this side and we invert them
until they lock into place.
We do that on the other side as well,
and before we walk away,
we just need to grab these Velcro tabs on the wall here
and put them around the frame.
That stops this from inverting too far,
and keeps the wall from flapping around as well.
We do that on the other side,
and then the last thing we need to do
is just push the corners of the tent this way,
so that it's nice and tight across the front.
That's the main frame set up.
We need to go and put pegs in around the base now.
Now the RV4 tent's a little different
than the smaller versions
in that the back portion of the tent's got an extra flap
of fabric and we need to put a few extra pegs in there,
so we'll go in there and show you how that works.
Now we've got four pegs for the back of the tent here.
Now the frame actually finishes here on the RV4,
and there's an extra flap of fabric
that extends out past the frames
that create a little bit more depth.
Now we could pull the cord and put pegs in just the corners,
but if we use these as well,
it creates a bit more internal space,
so let's just put four pegs across the back here.
Now that's the main part of the tent all set up.
There is one other thing we do
if we were setting this up for a long period
or staying in overnight, or particularly if it's windy,
is there are four guy wraps.
There's one here, one on the opposite corner,
and one on the back two corners here as well.
You should always set the guy wraps up
to make sure the tent's nice and secure.
One other thing I mentioned before setting the awning up
is you might wonder what this zip is at the top here.
That's to attach the fly here.
It's an optional accessory.
The fly, it simply zips on there
and it covers the back of the tent.
Now to set the awning up,
we need about two awning poles.
I've got a couple of pegs here and my guy wraps,
which I tied a little loop in the end of
so that it hooks onto the top of our spigot
and on the end of the awning pole.
First thing we need to do is unroll this,
let it fall to the ground
and then we can put the two poles in in each corner.
That's our awning set up.
That's just with two guards.
There is an extra guard that's attached in the middle here.
We could peg that out to stop it from flapping around.
It can also serve as a bit of a runner for water
if we pull this down a little bit.
It allows the water to run off in the middle there.
Well tentatively, you could drop one side down
to allow water to run down the side.
One other thing I'll mention
with the awning here is this awlet.
It's a second awlet.
We could put those poles here if we liked.
It would create a flat awning here
and slope down in the front.
Ideally, these are for a taller pole,
or those that come with peaked side awnings,
which are all attached
by these zippers and Velcro strips around the side here,
and this allows you to put a higher pole in here,
create a peaked room,
and you can actually enclose this
with all of the accessories at the front.
So that's the RV4 all set up.
I did that all by myself pretty easily.
They say it's a 30-second tent.
This guy here was set up in about 30 seconds,
just this portion here really easily.
It's a little bit longer by the time
you get all the pegs and stuff in place,
but it only took me a few minutes.
It was really easy, and pack-up is almost just as easy.
We just do everything backwards.
So I'm taking the awning poles out and pegs at the front,
and we do need to roll this up
before we pack it up any further.
We can't pack the tent away
with this awning loose like this,
so we need to roll it secure at the top here,
and then I'll take the pegs out around the base of the tent,
and roll in the back of the tent here,
just to make it easy when we collapse the frame down.
I'm just gonna push this loose fabric inside the tent.
That way it's not flapping around
when we try to roll it out back into the bag.
It's now level with the edge of the frame here.
Now just grab my bag and my poles
and the strap and everything
that has to get back into the bag
and I'm putting it behind the tent there,
so once we collapse this down,
it's all sitting in place and it's easy to roll away.
Now the next thing we need to do
is step back inside the tent here
and release the poles on the side.
So while I'm holding the top of the tent here,
we're getting someone to hold it for me,
and I'm just going to release the arms on the side.
From here we stick our head back out the door
and we slowly lower the tent down.
As we go, just grab the fabric inside
and just pull it inside the tent
so it all falls nice and neatly.
The next step is to fold our arms in.
We've got a A arm and a B arm.
Fold A first and B second.
Make sure the fabric's nice and flat as you go.
It makes rolling it up easier.
We've got this little triangle here
that we started when we set it up.
We just roll it over,
and we can use the strap to secure it into place.
That's the Oztent RV4 all packed away.
It went back in the bag pretty easily.
There's still a bit of space in here,
so you can fit some accessories in there as well.
Now I did that entirely by myself,
and it was pretty straightforward.
You can grab these at Snowys,
so come to au at lowest prices everyday,
and we do free delivery to just about anywhere in Australia.
Thanks for watching.
Catch you next time.
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