- Set up behind me is the Coleman Instant 3P Swagger.
It's not a swag, it's not a tent,
it sits right in the middle.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up,
and how to pack it away as well.
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Ben from Snowys here folks,
at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park,
a nice warm, but overcast day.
This is the Instant Swagger 3P tent from Coleman
in front of me here.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up and pack it away.
This is a great, instead of tent,
they kind of blurs the lines between swag and tent.
It offers a bit more living space,
a slightly smaller pack size
than a swagger yet it doesn't
come with all the bedding included,
but isn't as big or necessarily as complicated as a large
tent so it's quite unique.
When you buy the tent, this is how it comes.
It weighs about 10 kilos,
the bag itself measures about 120 centimetres,
but inside it's a little bit less than that,
about 110-115 centimetres in packed length and a bit
over 20 centimetres in height and depth.
I'll start by showing you what you
get with the kit when you buy it.
Inside the carry bag for your Swagger 3P,
you do get some instructions.
They are actually sown inside there so you can't lose them,
but set up is pretty easy as
I'm about to show you now.
Inside the bag, this is the main portion of the tent.
So you've got the frame in the inner Oh,
security inside there.
And that's tied up with a couple of just nylon straps here.
This is the fly sheet that goes over
the top unique feature
of this is you can use the inner without the fly sheet here.
Will show you more on that shortly.
You get a couple of awning poles here,
so you can set up the front door.
Either as weather protective vestibule or as an awning.
And you get enough pegs to be able to set up the awning,
the windows and everything, plus a couple of
guy ropes there and a little patch of floor
pad fabric with some warranty information inside.
Now to get started with set up, we put the fly,
the pegs and the poles aside,
and we want to spread this inner out and
start to put the instant up framing in place.
Now we don't want to get the orientation of the tent rollout
with the, with the tent, roll this way.
If we use this orientation, this is going to be lengthwise.
So the ends of the tent,
they're going to be at either end here.
There's a couple of ways we can tell the orientation.
Firstly is by this colour coded tab here,
that's going to be at the front of the tent.
So if we fold this out,
I can see that, that's going to be one ends.
This is now the back that also lines up
with the door that's facing me.
So I just need to fold these in and
spin it around my doors facing that way.
(tent crackling)
Once you got the orientation right,
just fold the frame back, don't force it.
It should just lie down flat on the ground.
We consider this a few components to it.
Got this centre pole here that's going to
form the ridge of the tent,
grab these two uprights,
which forms this Type-A shape at the end there.
And then these composite poles,
which are all attached to the hub here,
and they sort of fall into place.
They flex a little bit,
but they create a little bit more Headspace inside the tent.
The first thing we want to do for setup is come around to
the end and we are going to extend
these poles out into place.
So this hub inverts backwards, we pull these legs out
until the little locking pins locks into place here,
we'll do that on both sides at both ends.
So that's the ends in place.
We can say that these flexible poles here just fallen into
place. We don't need to do anything with those.
We've got the four end poles locked in and we just need to
now secure the ridgepole across the top here,
which is done in the same manner as the ends.
We just extend this outwards. We've got a little hole,
or a little point here where the locking pin
will fall into place.
So we extend this out until that locks.
That is the inner of the tent all set up.
Now, it's not windy here today.
So I haven't been too concerned about the wind picking the
tent up, but I am going to put pegs in the corners.
If it was windy though,
you'd either want to put the pegs in first or have someone
hold the tent to make sure it doesn't blow across the
campsite. Always. And one other thing,
before we go too much further,
that you can actually use this tent inner by itself.
Traditionally, the incident ranged from Colmen.
It was always recommended to use the fly for full stability.
With the tent,
Colmen have actually introduced a guy ropes on the inner
tent for the Swagger series.
And that allows you to peg this out and create enough
stability on the inner tent to use this
without the need for the fly over the top,
which gives you a good option for hot summer nights or for
humid conditions.
So grab full pegs now one in each corner.
Now I'm going to put the fly sheet on this today to show you
how to set it up.
So we still need to get the orientation of
the fly sheet right now.
So two things to look for to get the orientation right,
is firstly, this is zipper,
and it's great it's having a zipper and these,
these eyelets that go right to the bottom.
That's the vestiable or vestibule of the front there,
and also this red tab here.
So this red tab is colour coded with the red tab down on this
corner here.
So we know that this corner matches this corner.
They're the only two red tabs on the tent.
So I can now throw the opposite end of this,
over the back of the tent or the inner tent.
And now we can clip it all in place.
Okay, so got the fly just sitting loosely in place.
So we come to each end here for the next step
to each pole, we want to secure the fly sheet to the pole,
so we follow up underneath, we'll come to
a little Velcro tape here,
that's wraps around the pole here.
We then follow this right down to the bottom
where we'll come across a little plastic clip here
that tags up with the D ring on
the inner tent here, on the inner frame here.
We clip that in place.
So two attachment points on each corner,
we do that on all four corners.
Okay, so I've got the fly secure to the frame on each end,
clipped on each corner. We just seen three more pegs.
Now one in each side of the, the front entryway here,
we'll peg this out as a weather protected vestibule to start
with. So I peg here, I pick on the other side of that,
and then there's one peg at the rear of the tent,
which just pegs out a little,
what's called the Coleman Circle Ventilation
features in a lot of their tents
and just allows a bit of ventilation low down
throughout the tent.
Okay. So that's the tent all set up,
at the moment is set up, it was set for full weather
protection mode, I suppose.
With this zipped closed here,
the windows are closed on the ends. So we got,
if it's really heavy rain, you're fully protected inside.
Cool feature though,
is that we can actually set this door way.
This entrance here up as an awning,
as a weather protected awning.
If we unzip the zips on the side here
and we use the included awning poles
in conjunction with the brass eyelets
that feature on the corners here.
These poles will lock into places
as just the spring loaded mechanism in the middle.
These loop through the brass eyelets here.
We grab the guy ropes and a couple more pegs that are all
included over the top, and we can create a shaded entrance
to our Swagger 3P tent.
So we've got the awnings set up at the front here.
Now these are awning poles ain't adjustable,
they're a fixed length.
You can sort of adjust the heart of what you've got here by
angling these back, if you like or
having it right upright.
I've got that angle just a little bit there now.
So it sits neatly against the edge of the tent there.
And that's set up with a weather protected entrance
to the tent, sleeping area inside.
You could set a low rise chair up underneath there
if you want for a bit of shade.
Last thing I want to show you is the windows on the antique.
Cause you've got a couple of different options with how you
can set these up. Now, firstly,
you can leave them zipped up like this for full weather
protection.
If you want full ventilation under the zips on the sides,
roll this up with the guy ropes as well
and secure it with these
toggles at the top here to allow ventilation there's an
internally adjustable privacy screen.
You've got this window both ends and you've also got a
little bent at the rear at the back there to have
ventilation throughout the tent.
And your last option for set up here is to use the guy ropes
that are attached to the bottom of the window here,
and peg this out as a little weather protected awning
to allow a little bit, but probably not in
really heavy rain,
but just a lot rain,
it's got to keep the rain from coming in here and still
allow ventilation up underneath the tent.
Now, the last thing I haven't mentioned,
we did talk about the guy ropes on the inner tent.
There are also two more guy ropes on
the fly sheet here.
I'd recommend putting these in place all the time,
even if it's not windy just in case
the wind picks up overnight.
Um, but as it is now, that's still sitting pretty sternly.
And you've got that option of
even setting up the inner with the
guy ropes or with the fly sheet and
the guy ropes as well, so you got alternatives there.
That was pretty easily set up all by itself,
didn't take long at all.
It will be even easier with two people.
Pack up just as easy.
I'll start by taking in here,
sometimes the awnings down.
I've just got the three pegs to take out around the bass
one on each side of the vestibule on
the front here and one for
the middle circle ventilation event at the rear.
Once you go to the pegs out,
just go in and make sure you've got the windows closed.
It's easier to have these shut when you fold the,
the fly up, it's going to save this kind of bit fat,
that bit of fabric getting in the way and
making things a little difficult.
And once you've got all the windows set up
it goes then up and pegs here out.
We can come to each of these poles here.
Unclip it at the bass,
follow it back up the pole to that little Velcro tape,
have that we did up before.
And undo that on all four legs,
and then we can slide the fly for top.
Now I've taken the four pegs out of the corners are mindful
of the wind. It is calm here today.
If it was windy,
I'd either leave these in place or just have someone make
sure I'm holding the tent down in case the wind grabs it.
Cause that's the instance where you can damage the frame.
Now from here, we can collapse the tent down.
So if we come across to the front seat,
we need to just collapse this centre ridge pole first,
if you can't reach across just under the door and step
inside the tent slightly, come across into press the little
silver locking pin here so that
this ridge pole collapses down.
Now you shouldn't have to force the frame at any point here.
If we come around to the ends here now, same thing,
click these locking pins.
Just let the frame collapsed down on itself,
don't force it.
And it should just start to fall flat onto the grounds.
Same at the other end, and then we can fold it.
Very Good. We can see the frame is
pretty much flat on the ground.
Now, say from here, we want to fold all
of these legs back in against the centre
ridge pole here and try and take these little poles in with
it as well.
So push that, collapsed the pole right up against
yourself, So fold this up and in holding
the pole underneath here
against it as well, so they all lie flat
against that centre ridge pole there.
(tent crackling)
So unfold the fabric of these you go the flatter
you get it the easier it's going to roll up,
the flatter its gonna roll up
the easier it gets back in the bag.
So if you just fold it in kind of a diamond,
we can fold one half over the top of the frame.
The frames running down the middle here.
Fold this half over the top.
Now we can roll it up.
It's hot up without ties.
Just when you roll,
just be aware that those friends can sort of
stick out again, so if you find this resistance
when you're rolling it,
just make sure that short little pole,
um, the short sort of composite poles
aren't sticking out.
If there's resistance, just roll it back a little bit.
Tuck those poles back in and then roll it up again.
(tent zipping)
That is how to set up and pack away
the Coleman Instant Swagger 3 person,
Tent Swag, Swent or Swagger,
I guess is what Coleman call it.
That went back in the bag really easily.
There's plenty of space in there.
You're not going to be able to pack it up
with bedding inside
like you would a traditional Swag.
You're going to have to pack the bedding separately.
So by the time you throw that into the scenario,
it is probably being just as big as a Swag,
but it gives you a favourite of versatility
with that instant up frame
and plenty of these cases.
It's a unique little shelter.
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