- Hi, Kevin from Snowys Outdoors here
and this is the Darche XL 100.
Now, it has a 600 denier PVC coated fabric.
It's got a steel alloy frame
and its ideal for camping, sleep overs,
you can easily put a swag on it.
So, the stretcher weighs in at about 10 kilos.
You've got 116 centimetres long,
you've got 17 centimetres wide and 27 centimetres deep.
So let's have a look inside.
It's got a nice durable bag with carry handles,
as you can see.
Just undo the zipper.
(zip zipping)
Now, inside here,
I'll just get it out,
got a couple of poles in here,
that are loose.
There they are.
Those are for each end.
(poles clanging)
Just put those aside
and we'll get that stretcher out of the bag.
Pop that out of the way.
Now, when you open the stretcher up,
(stretcher dragging)
you fold it all the way over,
like that, first
and lay it on its side.
You then have two sets of legs.
These need to go all the way around
to the bottom.
Just make sure you don't catch any fabric in it.
And this one does exactly the same.
Fold up all the way around.
You need a bit of space for this,
you can see, I'm a bit short.
And fold it all the way around.
Once again, make sure there's no fabric.
Then we stand the stretcher up
and lay it down.
We've got a couple of poles here.
If you look at these poles,
a little groove on each end,
and there's a nipple just on the end there
that it slots over.
If you look at the stretcher, you'll see,
there's a little couple of feet there
and it says, "Secure this end last."
So we'll pop that one down there
and we'll head down the other end.
Now both of these poles are the same.
Need to slide this into the groove,
so in through the sleeve
(fabric scratching)
and we stretch that over
and pop it straight over the nipple.
Now this one,
just push down on it and it should slot straight in.
We'll go back up the other end.
Do exactly the same thing.
Slide that in the sleeve.
(poles clanging)
Wangle it over the end of the nipple,
push it
down, might need a little bit of assistance.
This one is a brand new stretcher, so it is a bit tight.
We'll stretch this one out.
Put your foot on the bottom, pull it out tight
and push it down
and in she goes.
Just make sure the other one's in properly,
which it is.
Okay, so now we've got it set up.
Let's have a look at the dimensions.
So it's 216 centimetres long,
you've got a hundred centimetres wide
and that's 50 centimetres deep.
Now your sleeping area's slightly less
'cause you've got this border around both sides
and the head.
So it just reduces the sleeping area just a little bit.
Frame is an aluminium and steel frame
with plastic feet down the bottom.
And this fabric has got a 600 denier PVC coated material
and it holds 150 kilos,
which I'm not.
I'm about 170 centimetres tall,
so as you can see, if I lay down,
there's plenty of room above me for a pillow,
there's plenty of room for my feet down there.
Let's pack it away.
So the first thing we got to do is remove the end.
We had this in there last, so it comes off first.
So we just lift that up.
It comes off quite easily.
You'll find it's much easier once you use it a few times,
it'll stretch a bit.
Pile away.
Go on down the other end, do the same.
Slide that out.
At this stage, you lift it up,
put it on it's side,
just allow it to fold down on itself, like that.
Just keep the fabric inside there, like that.
It saves it bunching up and getting in the way.
Now here's the tricky part.
The legs have to go all the way over,
we'll take this sleeping bag with me,
and around,
and this other end does the same.
(stretcher scuffling)
'Cause once you're at that stage
you can actually fold this leg over,
in half, like that.
Okay, so we just pull the fabric out.
Make sure it's not bunching up.
(fabric scrunching)
Fold over,
and you've got some Velcro straps here.
So one goes underneath
(Velcro crunching)
and you can Velcro up nice and tight.
Do the same at this end.
Once again, nice and tight.
Grab the bag.
You can see one end's got a bit of a pocket in it.
I'll just lift the feet up
and slide it straight into that pocket first,
flip down.
Make sure the other bag's over there
and course, two handles out.
And don't forget the poles.
They just go in loose
and it's all ready to zip up.
(zip zipping)
And there you go.
Okay, so that's all for the Darche XL 100 stretcher.
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