Howdy folks, Ben from Snowys again today with one of our most popular
products, it's been around for ages, the Mitchell Expedition Swag. Now, they come in three
sizes and they've been updated in the last sort of 12 months in 2017. There's the
single, the jumbo and the double. The single is what we've got here today,
that's the, the narrowest of them all. The jumbo goes a little bit wider and the
double obviously has enough room for two people, so it goes 90, 110, 140
centimetres in width. When you first get them they're quite compact in the box
like this, you need to give the mattress inside a bit of time to puff up. If I unroll
that right now the mattress would look pretty unappealing to lie on but
this one's been on display in our store for a little while, so it'll give you a
good idea what the mat looks like, so i'm gonna unroll this one, show you what
comes inside the box and how to set it up today, so let's get started. Okay so
pretty straightforward, not a whole lot in the box you've got the main swag with
a mattress inside, get some pegs - there's six, they're reasonable pegs
there, they'll be fine for most ground types. Now it's a three-pole setup, so
you've got three poles here, two gold ones and a silver one. Silver ones for the
centre pole, there's a three-section pole which goes at the footend and a fourth
section pole which goes at the head end, so these poles got a pre-bent shape
to them, so i need to work with that shape a little bit. If you can see there's
a natural curve there already, so to put these in place on each corner there is a
small pin, this pin goes up inside the pole. Before we put that in place, we need
to feed it through the sleeve at the top of the swag here.
Goes through like this...
through to the centre.
Put the pin in place.
Eventually work the pole through,
pulling the sleeve across and same thing on the other side. From there, there are
these plastic clips that just go over the top, on the pole, like I so, on both sides.
So, we do the same thing with the pole at the foot end. This centre pole we can leave until
we've got the guy ropes in place, so we'll get this in next and then peg the
guy ropes out and the swag will be upstanding. So we've got both end poles in
place, next step is to peg the guy ropes out on each end, on the awning at each
end. We've got a guy rope, this end and this end, that's gonna hold it upright and then
we can put the centre pole in. There is an option on these, there's eyelets here
and here to use the Swag Ridge Pole Kit that comes from OZtrail, so you can put it
between those poles and push these poles apart which means you don't need to use
guy ropes but as it comes in the box we'll need to put the guy ropes in so I'll
grab a couple of these pegs and put them in place.
There's a few different attachment points for the guy ropes, there's a
little - this is the foot end of the swag - there's a little awning here you could
probably, I originally attached the guy rope to here but it left the centre of the
swag quite, quite droopy, so I've attached to this upper point here and
you probably just need another little bit of length of rope or something to attach or
to peg this out. That could just sit loose though in good weather, you don't
really need to do that. Actually it's got a little Velcro tab there to keep it in place.
So that's the end poles in place, next thing is to unzip it and we can put the
centre pole in place. Okay, so I've got my centre pole here, to put it in the, in the
centre of the swag, the little pins that go in the bottom of the pole are
actually inside the swag just down on the side of the mattress and then
underneath this mesh there are tabs to go around the pole. So the first thing we
do is put the pole into these pins, just attach these on here, unless you want it
to roll it right back, otherwise attach these on here.
There's a couple more Velcro tabs just down on the inside of here to attach to
the pole as well and then we zip the swag back up again.
I can see that the centre is supported. At this end we can just tuck
this flap. Underneath the storm flap there is a Velcro tab here just keep that in
place. And that is the Mitchell Expedition Swag all set up. Ready to go.
Now, I'm gonna show you how to pack this up now, pretty straightforward it's just
everything in reverse. The benefit of this swag in particular is the lighter
way canvas makes it really easy to roll up, so you can get a nice small package
and it's lightweight to handle. So first thing we do is take the guy ropes out,
take the pegs out, take the poles out, we put the poles inside the swag, roll it
all up together and we're good to go. So, that is how you pack up, well that is
the Mitchell Expedition Single Swag. One feature I didn't mention was these
straps and these are actually attached to the swag, so you're not going to lose
them. Makes it nice and easy when you pack it up, you don't get to the last
minute and realise your straps, you have left somewhere, you've lost them at the last
campsite. They're all attached there with two metal d-rings, so it's nice and easy
to pack up. These are one of our most popular swags. If you're after a good
value swag for occasional use that's gonna last for years and years,
grab yourself a Expedition Mitchell Single from Snowys at the
lowest prices everyday, free delivery Australia-wide.
Thanks for watching.
We'll seeya next time.