G'day folks, Ben from Snowys, again, with the Mitchell Expedition Single Swag here
setup for you today. I'm going to run through the features, show you the size,
I'll lie in it for you, and tell you how comfortable it is. This is one of our
most popular products, comes in three sizes - the single, the jumbo which is
a little wider than the one we see here today and the double, which is obviously
wide enough for two. I'll start with the fabric, it's a 230
GSM what OZtrail call their Satproof canvas. It's a lighter weight canvas, so
this swag is suited for those who travel light or occasional use, it's not a heavy
duty canvas but for the way it gives you a lot of durability and from our
experience, plenty of life out of the swag. Now this canvas comes right down to
the base here and underneath there's a 460 GSM PVC vinyl base to the swag, so
when is rolled up, that PVC is on the outside, so if it's on a roof rack or
anything it's going to be protected from the moisture. It's a three-hoop design so
you got front and head and foot poles and then a centre pole in the middle here.
First thing I do is zip back this top layer and I'll show you the full length
mesh layer underneath. Just as I'm pulling the top layer back here I
notice that on the top of this, or the head end, there are three tabs - one here,
one here and one here.
Not entirely sure what they're for but I'm going to assume that if you do attach
guy ropes to these, you could actually pitch this, like so, to give you shade a
little more ventilation. I'm looking at doing that for you today. I haven't got any trees in
the right position but I'll fold this back and show you the mesh. So we can now see
we've got a full mesh upper on there, really good for nice warm nights, keeps
the insects out and lets the breeze through. If I open this up, there's
another cool feature just inside here, which is quite new to the OZtrail swag
range and that's this little tab here. This marries up with a D-ring inside
here. If we loop that through there and do it up,
it gives a bit of rigidity to the upper side of the swag. Now it also allows if
this is unzipped to open just halfway and it stops this from falling down
inside the swag, so it could be a handy feature but for the purpose right now of
me crawling in and showing you the size, I'm going to undo all of this, I'll show
you how much space there is. So if I crawl in here, now I'm 6 foot 1, if I lie down,
I've got a few inches of space at each end, so it's tight but there's plenty of
room. This is a 5 centimetre mattress. It's it's soft, I wouldn't call it really
firm, but it's more than comfortable for, for most people,
as with all swags you can probably benefit from a swag upgrade and get
something slightly, slightly firmer to sleep on. Now, you'll notice this pole's
still here. Because of the way it's set up there are Velcro tabs here to hold
this in place, so when I fold this back, this pole stays here. If you want to
remove it completely you'll need to take the pole right out and just throw it
back with the top like this.
Just to get it out the way.
Now, looking inside the swag, there's
a couple of little storage pockets on each side here, got one here. Keep things
in order. There is a vent at the foot in here which I can unzip from the inside,
opens up to a small mesh panel which will let air in, you can actually peg
that little awning out of the end there to allow a little bit of airflow. It's just a
polyester cover on that foot end there and then at the head end, also for
ventilation, there is a canvas cover to allow a mesh window and you can also zip
that right open. And that gives you access to a small area there under the awning at
the head end. I should also mention that this mattress has a removable cover. And that's
the foam inside there, so if you could replace the foam inside the cover
or it's also easy to remove that to give it a clean. Pretty much all the features
in the Mitchell Expedition Swag, I'll show you if you're sitting in it and you
want to put this back in place it's quite easy because that
stays in place there, so you just pull this forward, put the pins back in place
here and you can zip it up and crawl in and go to sleep. Now there is about 70
centimetres of head height at the highest end here, so there's
enough space, it's not the roomiest swag in the world but they're really good value
swags, they last a long time, they've been really popular in our range. So as
I mentioned before the, the casual camper, the occasional user, these are really
good value swags. You can pick them up off our website, lowest prices everyday
of the year, free delivery Australia-wide.
Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.