G'day folks, Ben from Snowys again here with the Oztent Oxley 7 Canvas
Touring Tent. It's more of a family style touring tent. Three stages to set
up but we want to run through those with you today but basically the main tent,
then you've got this extended room at the back and then the awning at the
front. I'm gonna get straight into it, I'll start by showing you what's
included in the bag. The main tent, your awning poles, pegs and a couple of guy
ropes. These are the poles that form the, or support the, extended room at the rear
of the tent. Got your flysheet. It also comes with a manual, a little allen key,
which can help if there are any repairs we need to replace any parts,
that'll fit their components. So the first thing we need to do is well
I'm sorry I forgot to mention that comes with this grey carry bag as well, which
is an oversized carry bag - tent fits back in there nice and easily. First thing we
need to do is spread the main tent out and peg all the corners out. So the tent
comes with these compression straps, which are easily clipped off with just side
release buckles. And each of these knuckles has a loop over it which holds
the frame together while you're packing it away. We just need to take each of
those off.
So I've got the six pegs required to peg all that out. The four for the main
centre bit of the tent. The two at the rear which is the extended rear
bedroom. Next step, there's a step in the front door here, grab this centre hub and
push it up. We'll see the tent start to take shape then. But in one more step
before the centre bit's set up and that's to lock each of these knuckles in place
simply by extending them out and that's locked into place. Easy as that, that's
the front section of the tent setup. All we need to do is get these poles which
come included with the tent and put these together. These are going to
support the rear bedroom section of the tent. So these three sections are going
to come together to form the support of the rear of the tent -
It's gotta go back there and slide it all in place. So just to the back of the tent here now
there's a sleeve that runs across the top here, the full length of the back, we
got to slide this bent section of the pole through that. Once that's in place,
you grab our uprights, slide them in and they simply sit up against the
frame on the ground here, there's a nice big rubber foot to keep it in place. I'll
just grab the other poll and do it on the other side. So that's the inner of the Oxley
7 mostly set up. We'll put the awning up in a sec. There's actually a lot of
extra peg points around the base we could use if we wanted to, if we're going
to you know really bad weather. I'm not going to put them all in today.
Now this awning is attached to the inner tent, we don't need to put the fly on to
have an awning on it as it's set up. First though, I'll set this awning up,
show you how it looks. To do that we need a couple more pegs, the guy ropes that
are included and the two extendable awning poles.
So that's the inner setup. Awning out - this awning has a lot of extra
attachments for the complete panel system which is an optional extra we
don't have here for us today but there's a zip that runs right around the sides
and down the sides of the tent as well and Velcro tabs that are all part of the
attachment of those accessories. It also has extra eyelets halfway along
the awning here so you could set it up as a peaked awning but you do need a
ridge pole which is another optional accessory to do that. Though as I
mentioned this is pretty weatherproof as it is at the moment, if it's only light
showers or is nice weather you only need to set it up as it is. If it's
particularly cold or you're expecting a lot of rain certainly throw the fly over
the top, it's easy to do, it's going to reduce condensation on those cold nights
and it's going to keep you drier if it is really heavy rain. The fly attaches
simply with these Tri-Glide clips which are located in, the other side of that is
located in each corner of the tent. To orient it right, there are these letter
codes so B obviously it goes with B and there'll also be an A which goes here
with A. So we start by clipping those in, throw it over the top. This just a cap fly
it doesn't cover the entire tent just covers the top and runs down the poles.
I've got the fly cap on now, it covers both the main tent and then the top of
the rear bedroom back there. I've attached as many of these Velcro tabs
underneath as I can so that they're secure to the pole. You may need to play
a little bit with the adjustment down here, there's a strap to allow you to
kind of shift the fly sheet a little bit to get these tabs to line up but if
you use all of those and it's nice and secure. Now there are guy ropes all over
the tent, both on the fly sheet and the inner tent so there's a guy rope in a
pocket here which is attached to the fly sheet and then underneath here there's
another guy rope that's actually attached to the inner tent so they're on
all four corners. Excuse me, I tell a lie, there's no, oh no
there are there's more guy ropes here on this corner. There's also a guy rope in the
centre of the fly at the back and another low one down here. So if it was
really windy weather you could peg this out in a lot of places - it's going to be
a really sturdy tent. That's the Oxley 7 all set up, it packs
up pretty easily too, I'm going to reverse everything now and show you how
easy it all goes back in the bag. First thing I need to do is pull all these
down and roll this away, make sure I've got a door open and take the fly sheet
off and then we'll show you how the centre frame collapses down.
So, that's probably the longest bit of this pack down. All the accessories are off,
guy ropes are all rolled away. All that's left of the pegs around the
bottom and the frame that's up. To collapse this frame down it's a one-step
process really, I get inside and I grab the handle that's in the middle, I pull
it down, that releases the hub at the top, it also releases this knuckle so the
poles will collapse down. Probably the only thing I'd be warned you of is to be
careful as you pull it that frame does eventually kind of snap down, you don't
want to be standing under it and get your head so just keep your head away from
the centre. I'll pull all of the pegs out from
the corners now and we'll fold the frame away. Now to make this easier, make
sure when you fold these legs up that you grab this bottom bit and use the
loop to go over the knuckle of the main tent. By doing that, means once we've
done it all four we're only playing with four loose bits rather than eight when
we're trying to fold it all together. So now we bring all four corners
together and lie it on its side. You find if you spend a little bit of extra time
just straightening out these fabric sections and trying to get it to fold as
best as you can rather than scrunch it, is going to make it easier to pull back
in the bag, especially for this back section of the tent - just try and fold it
so that it rolls nice and easily into the tent. So I'm not gonna lie it was a
bit of a wrestle to get this back in the bag I guess because of that heavy-duty
PVC floor but it's probably a small trade off for that durability. My hot tip
would be to make sure you fold that back room up into the frame a little bit
before you lift all the corners up. Always tuck it underneath the frame and
then it rolls off a bit easier. With two people that would probably be a bit
easier to - two lots of weight on there trying to squash it down further. But hey
that's the Oztent Oxley 7. Pack up and set down, I reckon it's a great tent you
can pick them up off our website at lowest prices everyday
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Thank you for watching, guys!