- The Explore Planet Earth Spartan 3
is a perfect option for adventurers on a budget.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up and pack it away.
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Hey guys, it's Lauren from Snowy's here.
I have with me the Explore Planet Earth Spartan 3.
It's an excellent adventuring tent for those on a budget.
Perfect for motorcycle tourists, backpackers or hikers.
It can sleep up to three,
otherwise two people with extra gear storage,
it's also a good option.
It's overall weight is around 3.3 kilos
and it has a packed size of 48 centimetres long
by about 16 centimetres in diameter.
So in your bag, which actually is
a bit of a compression bag as well,
you'll have your set-up and pack-away instructions here,
as well as some care instructions
and warranty information on the back.
You'll have your pole bag which contains three poles.
You've got two red poles and a yellow pole,
and you also have this nifty little gadget here
which is an emergency repair kit.
If you're out and about
and it gets windy or your pole breaks,
you can just simply slide this over the top
to help reinforce the joint or the break.
We also have our peg bag here.
Now there are exactly 12 pegs
which is the right amount for you to fully set your tent up.
However this also is a free-standing tent
so if you're camping somewhere where the ground
is really hard or really rocky,
it's not essential to peg it out
in order for you to actually be able to put your tent up.
We also have the tent fly
and the tent body here.
Now, the first thing that we're gonna do
is open up out tent inner and peg out the four corners.
So, the tent itself,
the tent inner I should say,
is symmetrical on both sides
so the doorways are indicated by these mesh panels here,
so you just orient it in whatever direction
you're wanting your openings to be.
Now once we've got the tent in the right place,
the next step is to peg all your four corners down.
So I've got this little peg here,
just to show you where we're gonna do that.
So you'll just be popping your peg
through the end of the webbing loop here like so.
So obviously we're not gonna peg it out
because we're indoors and we're on concrete here,
but all four corners will be pegged out
and then the next step is to grab your poles.
So I'm just gonna pop them all together here first
so they're just ready to go for me as soon as I need them.
Start off with the gold one,
which is your longest pole.
Then grab our two red poles.
Right, we're gonna start with the gold poles.
So we're gonna grab the end of the pole
and we're gonna thread this pole pin
into the base of that one here,
and then we're gonna do the same on the other side.
Now, this is going to start to bend up now
under the tension.
So you have to put a little bit of muscle in it
but it's not too difficult.
And we'll just get that pole pinned in there now.
So once our yellow pole is up,
we're gonna start to attach the speed clips.
And we'll do that all the way along.
So once your yellow pole is on,
the next step is to grab the first of your red poles.
So we're gonna do the same with the pole pin
on the red side.
We're matching the red pole up
with the red corner webbing.
And then we'll run the other side
over the top of our yellow pole,
and we're gonna grab this red tab here
that's got a grommet in it.
We've got this little silver anchor pin
which will slide into the grommet
and hold it into place.
Once that's done, we can clip
on our red speed clips.
Then we'll do our final red pole.
Pole pin into the base.
Again we'll come around to this other side here.
Grab the red tab,
and we'll get that little end pin in through to the grommet.
Now, you might notice that the tent
is a bit of an interesting construction here.
So obviously Explore Planet Earth
have gone for this pole set up
as opposed to having a singular internal pole system
with a spreader bar across the top.
So if you're a bit OCD or aesthetically challenged,
you might be bothered by the dissymmetry of it all,
and it does appear to look a bit weird.
But all-in-all, it's a pretty effective construction there.
The next step is to pop on the fly.
Now in terms of fly orientation,
you remember we talked about
those color-coded corners before
so we're gonna look to match up
the red fly anchor strap with the red corner,
and the yellow with the yellow corner like so.
So because it's not a symmetrical tent per se
and it does look a bit odd,
these will really come in handy.
So once you've got your fly roughly into position,
the first thing that we're going to do
is to just anchor the ends of red straps here
with the fly anchor points.
So this also has a small grommet on the end
which is gonna slide over the edge of your red pole as well.
Again those tabs are color-coded.
And we're gonna do the same on the other side.
Now once you've got those two red tabs into place,
you can be sure that the fly is where it's supposed to be
even though it may not look like it,
and now we're gonna anchor the corner buckles.
All right, now the next step which we're not gonna do
because we're inside
is to go around and peg down all of our fly anchor points
which I'll show you now.
So, the first one is gonna be at the end here
on your fly, your centre peg point
which you'll be pegging in like so.
The next step will be all four guy ropes,
which you'll peg out like so.
And then lastly if you're going to be using your vestibules,
we'll be pegging them out through the loops here.
Now you can easily pull these elastic loops off
so if you want to keep one side of your vestibule
pegged open and roll one side back,
that's also okay as well.
So that's about it for the set-up
of your Spartan 3.
Now in terms of packing up the tent,
the first thing we're gonna do
is to remove all of those theoretical fly tent pegs.
We've got the two on either vestibule side,
We've got the four guy rope pegs,
and we've also got the centre end pegs
that will be on either side.
So once those ones are removed,
we're gonna leave the four main ten body pegs in
to make sure that nothing's blowing away
in the wind or anything like that,
and we're going to remove the fly clips.
So we've got this one here.
Come around, this corner.
Once your four corners are undone,
we're gonna peel the fly back here,
we're gonna release these pole support spots,
the same on the other side
and we're gonna remove the fly and fold it up.
Then the next step is to start to remove your poles.
We're gonna start with the red poles first.
We're gonna unclip the tent inner from the poles.
Grab the red tag here,
keep your hand on that pole
and just gently pull that out,
and release that pole up.
We'll collapse it down and put it straight into
our pole bags to make sure they're not getting any dirt.
Move onto the next red one.
Once your red poles done,
we're gonna move onto the yellow pole
and release that from the pin.
So once your tent poles are away,
your next step will be to remove the four pegs
on the outer corners of the tent.
Once that's done, we'll fold the tent up.
From here we'll grab our peg and pole bag
and our fly
and we will roll them all together.
So that's it for the Spartan 3 by Explore Planet Earth.
There are a couple of buckles here on the bag
that we can pull tighter to compress it down a bit
if you need to.
All-in-all this is an excellent tent
for those on a budget.
Casual adventurers, motorcycle tourist, hikers,
you name it.
You can get it at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices everyday.
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