- Folks, it's Ben from Snowy's here today
with the Coleman Instant Up six person tent.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up.
Let's check it out.
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Folks, Ben from Snowy's here today,
down in the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park
in Adelaide's eastern suburbs.
It's a nice, quiet little caravan park,
full of trees, 15 minutes from the city,
15 minutes to the beach.
An easy getaway if you don't wanna drive too far,
and they've given us some space here today
to show you some of our products.
In front of me here,
I've got the Coleman Instant Up 6P tent.
Packed up like this,
it measures about 137 centimetres in length,
by 24 high, by 24 centimetres in depth,
and it weighs a little over 13 kilos.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up today.
First thing I want to do, though,
is pull everything out of the bag
and show you what you get with your kit.
So, inside the bag with your Instant Up 6P tent
you get the main portion of the tent,
and this is the inner and the frame all in as one.
It all pitches together.
We've got a couple of awning poles here
to set up the front of the tent as an awning.
The pegs that you need, they're just thin pegs.
You could benefit from some upgraded pegs,
some thicker ones.
There's also a couple of extra guy ropes
and some repair tape in there.
This is our fly sheet.
Got a couple of straps to hold it all together in the bag.
I'm gonna start to set it up.
The first thing I need to do is grab the inner
and then spread it out,
and we can put the frame in place.
So, to get the tent set up,
first thing we do is stand it upright, like this.
So, this is the top hub.
This forms the peak of the tent,
so this has gotta face upwards.
So, if we stand it up this way,
just keep hold of the pole
so it doesn't all fall out just yet,
and unravel the fabric from around the edges here
until it sort of all falls to the side,
and then gently let these poles just fall out.
Don't force them, just let them fall naturally.
You've got four arms that stick out.
Now, at this point, we wanna think about where the door is.
It's on this side, here.
I'm gonna make the door face this way,
so I'm just gonna twist the tent around a bit
before I stretch it out too far.
So, I've just got my tent positioned
roughly at the back of my groundsheet here.
Now, just while we're on the groundsheet,
I've got a groundsheet that's about
three metres by about 4.8 metres here, today.
A little bit more than that.
It's a bit bigger than the tent
so we'll have to see how it fits,
but just for reference sake,
that's what I'm trying with here today.
Now, from this point here,
I can start to pull the frame into shape.
The important thing with these tents,
I'm lucky enough to have a calm day here today,
but if it was really windy
I'd wanna get someone to help me,
or I'd wanna make sure I put the corner pegs in first,
because the points at which most damage can occur
with these tents is in the wind.
So, I wouldn't wanna leave this sitting like this
on really windy weather unattended,
because the wind will catch it,
this frame will start to twist, and we can cause damage.
Now, that's our frame halfway up.
Now, I could throw the fly over the top now, if I wanted,
if I was worried about reaching the top of it.
I'm particularly tall, so I can do it after,
and I wanna show you the inner
popping up without the fly on.
I haven't got the pegs in the corner yet.
Once again, it's a calm day,
so I'm not gonna worry about that.
Next thing I need to do is extend each of these legs out
so that it comes up to full height
and it locks into place on this little locking point, here.
So, that's our frame all extended.
Now, it's not supported at the moment,
so I wanna get the pegs in place.
Little bit of a breeze,
so I wouldn't wanna leave it too long.
I'll grab four pegs, put them in each corner,
then we can throw the fly over.
Just while I'm on the pegs, these are quite thin pegs.
The one I just hit in, over the other side there,
did bend a little bit.
The smaller ones, I guess, are fine for these corners here,
but particularly for the guy ropes
you'd benefit from some heavier duty pegs.
So, at least four of them, they're worth adding to your kit.
While I'm on this corner here, I'll just point out
how well our groundsheet's fitting here.
So, like I said, this is 3.05 metres wide, this groundsheet,
so it is wider than the tent,
so I've just had to curl it under a little bit here
to get this peg in place.
So, alternatively, I could put an eyelet
in the groundsheet if I wanted,
but it works quite fine to tuck it under like that.
Next step in setting the tent up
is to throw the fly over the top.
Now, just give the orientation of the fly, right,
before I throw it over the top.
Now, there's only one door.
It's got two zippers that go
right to the bottom of the tent,
which is this point here, and this point here,
so I know that this end here
is the end I need at the door.
Now, it can be easy to throw it over the top
if you've got a second person.
I'll just sort of manage by myself here,
but I go to the other ends and drag the fly over the top.
So, I've got the fly in place there now.
Once again, if it was windy,
I'd wanna be moving pretty quick now
to get all the guy ropes and things in place,
or this could take off, or we could damage the frame.
Now, there's three points of attachment
for the frame to the fly sheet.
If we pull the frame up along the leg here,
go right up to the knuckle here,
there's a Velcro tab on the fly sheet.
That goes around the frame here.
There's a second one of those further down,
almost right to the bottom.
There it is there.
That goes around the frame down here,
and then the third point of attachment
is the plastic clip, which is on some bungee cord here,
that loops to the plastic clip
on the foot of the inner tent here,
and we do that on all four legs.
And, that's our tent fly attached.
There's still a few more peg points to put in.
There's a couple out the front here
to give our vestibule some shape and pull it out into place,
and on each side there is a peg point halfway along.
Now, on both of the long sides,
there's an internal and an external peg point,
and there's one at the rear, as well.
So, we've got three more to put in on the sides,
two at the front, and then we've got
four guy ropes to peg out.
Now, for our pegs at the vestibule here,
they're gonna go, okay, groundsheet's in the way, basically.
Now, there's a couple of options we've got, here.
We could put some eyelets in the groundsheet if we want.
I'm not gonna do that today.
What I am gonna do is pole this peg out,
fold the groundsheet back
so it sits underneath the vestibule, here.
That way it still gives us a protected entrance,
and we're not putting holes in the groundsheet.
Now, we've just got the four guy ropes to put in place.
So, with these guy ropes,
they are really important for these tents.
They're boxy in shape.
They will catch the wind.
That's just the nature of the tent.
Probably important to upgrade the pegs that you use,
so that they're thicker, heavier duty pegs,
and always put the guy rope
as far out as you can from the tent.
Peg it right out as far as you can out here,
so it's one to one and a half metres out from the tent,
and it gives it plenty of support.
And, that's the tent fully set up.
There's a couple of extra features
we can set up on the tent.
Now, there's a window on both sides and at the rear, here.
Now, these unzip at the sides.
The storm flap on the outside, here.
There's a guy rope on each corner,
and we can peg these out as little awnings
on the windows if we like,
to give us shade and ventilation inside the tent,
but probably the more useful feature
is the awning at the front of the tent.
The front entrance door has got eyelets on it.
We get two included awning poles.
We can extend that out as a shaded entrance
to the front of the tent.
That is our Instant Up 6P tent, all set up.
Few words of precautions,
always use the fly sheet with these tents.
It gives it the support it needs.
If the weather is particularly bad,
consider a sheltered spot, or put something in place
to give the tent a bit of protection,
such as a vehicle as a wind barrier,
but on a calm day like this,
and just for general mild weather camping,
this is a great, affordable set up.
Now, I'm gonna pack up the Instant Up 6P
person by myself today.
Once again, having a mate alongside you
can make things a bit easier, but I'm gonna manage.
Now, if it was windy, you would wanna make
some considerations on leaving some pegs in place
right 'til the very end,
so the wind doesn't catch your tent and cause any damage.
So, bit of common sense.
I don't have to worry about that today.
It's nice and calm.
I'll pull all the pegs out, get the fly sheet off,
and then I can show you how the frame collapses down.
Now we can start to collapse the frame,
but I've still got the four pegs in the corners here,
just in case a gust comes through,
keeps the frame protected
and doesn't end up blowing over and damaging anything.
Now, to lower the frame, we go to each leg
and we press the silver button
under the little instant tent sticker,
and we let each leg collapse down.
So, once we've lowered all those legs,
we can now invert the knuckles backwards.
The front two have kind of done it automatically
as I've lowered these down,
so I'll just push these ones in, as well,
and I'm now comfortable taking the tent pegs
out of the corners
because the tent's nice and low to the ground
and there's minimal chance of damage.
That's all the pegs out.
Now we can fold the frame up.
Now, if we grab each corner
and just carefully fold it up to the middle.
Don't force it, make sure it's not twisting at all.
Collect them all together.
Once again, this is easier with two people.
As you go, try to keep the fabric nice and neat.
It's gonna make getting it back in the bag so much easier.
Now, you do need to hold this with one hand
as you fold the other arms.
So, we go on each corner,
and the last one here, bring it up to the top.
So, we've now got all four legs
up against the hub in the middle here.
We can lay this down on its side.
So, at this stage, if you can just take a few seconds
just to get this fabric as flat as you can,
it's gonna make rolling it up so much easier.
It's gonna go back in the bag a whole lot easier.
So, just stretch these out
so that they sit nice and flat, like so.
Once we've got that flat, we can fold it over,
roll it all tightly, and put it back in the bag.
Once we've got it to this point, I can grab our ties,
tie it all up so it's secure and doesn't unravel.
You can roll the fly up in here together if you want.
I find it easier just to pack it separately,
and it all fits neatly back in the bag.
Now, I hope that helps you understand
how to set up and pack up the Coleman Instant Up 6P tent.
Now, as I mentioned, I did that by myself pretty easily.
It fits back in the bag pretty easily, too.
You can grab these online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices every day of the year.
I hope you found that useful, and we'll catch you next time.
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