- Hey folks.
Set up behind me here
is the Coleman Instant Swagger two person.
Its not a tent. Its not a swag.
It's just right in between.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and how to pack it away.
Let's get started.
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Ben from Snowys here folks.
On an overcast day at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park.
And I've got the Coleman Instant Swagger 2P tents
here for you today.
Now, Coleman claim this is filling the void
between a tent and a swag.
It's got an instant up frame.
Quite a little bit higher than a swag,
but it's not quite big enough to be classed as a tent.
Term I have often termed as a swent.
But they call it the swagger.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and pack it away today.
This is how it comes when you buy it.
The bag itself measures about 120 centimetres
or 119 centimetres.
But when it's actually packed up
inside the pole structure.
Is about 10 centimetres shorter than that.
About 110 centimetres and about 20 odd centimetres
in height and depth.
Weighs in little bit over nine kilos.
I'll start by showing you what comes in the bag.
Inside the bag here.
You've got the instructions actually sewn in places
so you can't lose them.
You'll also get a little bag of pegs.
Um some warranty information
and a little bit of a repair kit there.
Floor repair kit and fabric.
A couple of guy ropes to go with it.
So you can set up your awning.
Just on the awning
you get a couple awning poles included.
In this bag here there's still awning poles.
Now the inner here is secured with a couple of straps.
But this is the inner tent and the frame
all secured together as one.
And you get the fly sheet as well.
So first thing we want to do to set it up
is put these things aside.
We're going to spread this out
and start to get the frame place.
So just spread the inner fabric out, to start with.
And try and locate the door.
You'll find that these hubs,
these hard bits on each end here
are lengthwise on the tent.
So as you fold these out.
You'll be able to find the door in here, somewhere.
Here we go, here's the door on this side here.
I want the door facing that way.
So I'm just gonna spin it around.
And then gently pull all the poles out
so that it lays
flat in this kind of, we've got the centre pole here.
This is going to be the ridge pole.
And then we've got two upright poles at each end there.
Now, if it was windy here today.
I'd probably want to put some pegs in place
before I put this frame up in place.
Just in case the wind catches it.
But it's nice and calm.
So I can start to extend all these poles out.
So I come to this end here,
I've got two poles I need to extend out.
We've got a little sticker here
and under that is a little hole.
And there's going to be a push pin
that will locate in that hole
as I extend this out.
We do that on both ends.
Just keep pulling it,
Until that push pin locks in place.
Same on the other side.
We come up the other end here.
We extend these two poles as well.
Until they lock into place.
And that's our two end sections all set up.
And there's just one more pole we need to lock
and that's centre ridge pole here.
Which we extend out, same deal.
There's a little hole in the top here.
We extend that out until the silver locking pin
locks into place there.
Little bit of muscle just to stretch it out.
And that's the frame in place.
So I can now go around ill grab four pegs.
Put a peg in each corner.
And that's the inner all secured.
Now I've got this secure to the ground at the moment
On a calm, in calm weather
that's all I need to do now.
Previously that the larger instant up tents
in the Coleman range its always been recommended
that you put the fly on for stability.
With the swagger tents.
Coleman have introduced guy ropes on the inner here.
So you can actually peg these guy ropes out.
There's two at each end
and you can actually just use the inner
as it is at the moment.
Which makes it really good for dry warm nights.
If you are in wet weather though.
This is waterproof material
but it's not seam-sealed on the inner.
So you're gonna need to throw the fly over the top.
So that's the next thing we'll do.
Okay now you just gonna orient the fly.
And we can do that with,
there's a little red tab here.
This red tab matches up with the red tab on the corner here.
So we need, this gives us the right orientation.
That's the only red tab on the, on the tent.
The door, it needs to go to the front.
So we know if we've got the door here
lined up with this door.
This red tab lined up with this.
We're in the right orientation.
So we'll throw this over the top.
And just before you clip each corner in
just follow the pole up underneath the fly.
And there'll be a little Velcro tab here.
That's designed to go around the frame.
Gives a little bit more stability
and stops it flapping around too much.
So put.
There's one of those on each, each leg.
Put that in place.
Then follow it down to the bottom where you'll find
a plastic clip on each corner.
This plastic clip lines up with a D-ring
in the, in the bottom of the inner tent there.
We clip that in place.
So do the same thing on all four pole legs.
So I've got the fly clipped in place.
There's three more pegs we need to put in.
Um two for the awning at the front here.
So, I put one here and one of the other side
of the door over there.
And there's also one at the rear to peg out
a little circle ventilation vent.
That's got a, is a vent inside
to allow a bit of airflow throughout.
So with those three in place,
that's the fly secured. There are guy ropes.
Once again on each end of the tent here.
Two on each end.
In really bad conditions.
We can put them in place.
If you're gonna set it up overnight,
it's always good to put the guy ropes in place anyway.
So that is the Swagger 2P all set up.
This is kind of in full weather proof mode, I suppose.
So it's gonna keep you dry in the worst of conditions.
We've got the awning closed up.
The windows are closed up at the end.
The only thing I haven't done today
is put the guy ropes in place.
Which always do,
especially if it's going to be windy weather.
Um but there's one more thing
that we can do for set up.
And that is using these awning poles,
which just pop into place.
There's a little spring in the middle.
There there's a loop over the top.
We can use these to set this doorway up here
as a bit of a weather protected entrance to the tent.
There are little brass eyelets
in the corners here that can loop.
We put the spigot from the pole through there.
We stand this upright.
We use the guy ropes that were included with the tent
to loop over the top of this, peg it out.
I want to have a little weather protected shelter
over the entrance.
So now I've got the awning set up at the front here.
There's nice little hooks over the top
of these awning poles to keep the ropes on.
And we've got a bit,
bit of weather protected entrance to the swagger here.
One more thing I'll show you
is just around on the ends of the tent here.
And that's with these windows,
you can set these up in a few different ways.
I've got the zip close to the moment
for full weather protection.
If you unzip these,
you can roll them all the way up.
So that they're right up and out the way
to allow ventilation through this side of the tent.
And you've got the same thing on the other side of the tent
with internal privacy screens.
There's also a vent, a lower vent
at the back of the tent and the door at the front.
So you can get lots of ventilation through the tent.
Other option. If it is a little bit rainy.
You can use the guy ropes that are attached
to this window here to peg it out like this
as a bit of a weather protected awning.
You're still gonna potentially get a little bit of rain
in the side if it is really heavy.
So you might want to just
maybe close the zip up a little bit.
But you do have an option to peg this out,
to allow ventilation
while there's still a little bit of rain around.
That's how you set up the Coleman Swagger 2P tent.
It's a great alternative.
If you don't have room to pack a bulky swag.
Want something that packs up,
or sets up nice and quickly.
It also packs away really quickly.
Same thing in reverse.
First thing I do is take the awning down.
So I've taken awning down.
I've zipped the doorway at the front here.
We've just got these three pegs
to take in around the base
and then we can go and unclip it from the frame.
So come to the corners now we can unclip
the little plastic clips at the base there.
And don't forget to work your way up.
And just under the Velcro tab
that we did up earlier around the frame here.
Do that on all four corners
and then we can take the fly off.
As you go around.
Just make sure you zip the windows down as well.
It can make it harder to pack the fly away
if it's kind of a bunch of fabric at the top here.
Roll them flat.
It's gonna fold up nice and flat
and go back in the bag nice and easily.
Now I've pulled all four pegs out of the corners here.
So this is no longer secure to the ground.
So as always when you're packing your tent up
if it is windy, now it's calm here today.
But if it is windy just be aware
that a big wind can pick this up
and blow it away now.
Which could end up damaging the frame.
So either have someone hold it down
or leave the pegs in
until you've got the frame collapsed down.
Now from this point, what we want to do
is come to the middle of the tent here
and we're gonna collapse the centre pole down.
So we pushed that middle
or a little silver push pin there.
This in the middle.
And that's going to allow this pole to collapse.
The tents gonna start to fall down on itself.
We go to each end on all four of these legs
and collapse these down.
And we just let it gently all fall down on itself.
Don't force it.
Should've just fall down on itself flat onto the ground.
Now from here we want to start
to fold all of these up.
So these two end poles
and the two shortest little flexible composite poles here.
All fold in on themselves.
When you fold this, these little ones
tend to just go with it.
So push this right up and fold it up against
this centre ridge pole here.
This one will want to come with it as well.
As you go just try instead of overlap
or let the fabric fold so that it sits flat.
We can see that little pole
that was sitting in here.
It's just sticking out.
Might just want to push that in
and make sure that's tucked in there as well.
Same with the other side.
I can feel the small poles
just sticking out here a little bit.
We'll just tuck that in as well to the middle.
Same on the other end.
And then we can fold the fabric over and roll it up.
So from this point, you can start rolling
just as you go, just roll carefully.
You shouldn't have to force any of the poles
and just make sure that you're not,
none of the poles are sticking out underneath here
and you're not forcing it.
So should roll nice and easy.
So I can feel this nice little bundle of poles here.
It's all just loose fabric at that end there.
And I can roll it up.
Tie it up with the straps
and put it back in the bag.
That went back in the bag super easy.
There's plenty of space in there.
You might be wondering, given that there's space
in the bag can you pack any bedding up inside of this?
You're not going to be able to do that
because the frames aren't gonna to be able to fold up.
So your bedding does have to go separate to this.
Which is a distinct difference
between the swagger and the swag.
That's where it is more like a tent.
But it is an alternative sleeping option
for those who like I said,
don't want that bulk of a swagger.
Or just want a bit more head space
or interior space than a swag.
Without going down the path of
getting a really large tent.
That is how you set up the Coleman Swagger 2P.
Nice and easy done and by myself.
Easy with two people
but certainly achievable with one.
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