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- Hi guys, Ben from Snowys again,
today with the Oztent RV2 Canvas Touring Tent.
A two to three person tent,
better for two really, squeezy three.
Weighs about 20 kilos,
and pack size is a little over two metres,
2.05 metres by about 30 centimetres
and about 20 centimetres this way.
So you'll need a roof rack or a trailer to transport it.
I wanna show you how to set it up today.
First thing I'll do is show you what comes in the bag.
So got it all unpacked, this is
the synthetic carrier bag that it comes in,
it's a heavy-duty synthetic, lots of carry handles on it.
Got our awning poles here,
got our bag of pegs and a couple of extra guy ropes,
instruction manual with some repair fabric inside,
and the main tent that's all wrapped up with a strap here.
I'll put this gear aside.
First thing I do is unroll this
and we can pull all the arms out.
So as we unroll this tent there's
this little triangle of fabric, that's the floor.
Whichever way we point that
is gonna be the front of the tent.
So once we've got it unrolled that far,
the next thing we need to do is pull these arms out,
now they're labelled A and B.
B's always folded in second when you pack it up,
so it's the first one we fold out when we set it up.
So we fold this arm B out first.
We step across and grab arm A.
So from here we can see that this is the door of the tent,
so we've got it facing this way.
I'll step in the middle here
and I'll grab a strap up underneath here
that has Oztent written on it.
And I can use this to pull the front of the tent up,
so as I pull it up I just make sure it raises evenly.
From this point I've gotta keep hold of this
until I get inside and lock the poles in place,
so just come in here, I'll show you how that works.
We might just need to push these out a little bit
to stretch the floor in each corner,
and then on each side we grab this pole here
and we're gonna invert it back up this way.
We do that on each side.
So from here the tent's now freestanding.
One last thing we need to do in here
before we go out and put the pegs in
is grab this little tab on the wall here,
little Velcro tab, we just need to wrap it around the pole,
that keeps the wall secure
and stops this from inverting accidentally.
We'll do that on each side.
So that's the tent in freestanding mode.
I'm gonna go around and put a peg in each corner,
so four in total, we do also recommend
that when you're using it for longer periods
you set up the guy ropes, there's four in total,
one on each corner here and one on each corner at the rear.
I'm not gonna set them up today though,
I'm just gonna put the ones in the bottom.
(hammer bangs)
There is one extra point at the back here,
I'm not gonna worry about this today but if I peg that in,
it just pulls this wall out a little bit more
and increases the internal space,
so just one extra peg point you can use.
Well that's the main part of the tent set up,
we just gotta go round the front and set the awning up now.
So just grabbed what I need to set the awning up,
I need a couple of pegs, got my two upright poles here,
and you get the two upright poles with the RV2,
and a couple of guy ropes, now I do need
to tie some loops in the end of these guy ropes
so that I can hook 'em over the top of these spigots
and peg the awning up.
Now the awning comes rolled up like this,
it needs to be rolled up like this
for setup and for storage.
So the first thing we do is undo these tabs and unroll it.
There's a couple of eyelets in these awnings.
One quite close to the tent here,
and another one right at the end here,
so we could set this up as a peaked awning if we like.
This works better with the side panel accessories
that come with it 'cause you also get
a ridge pole with that.
For the purpose of just the awning by itself like this,
I'm actually just gonna put the ridge pole,
sorry, the upright poles in the end here.
And there is a bit of a stiffener in here
to stop this bit flapping around.
So I'll put the poles in, guy rope over the top,
and that'll be our tent setup.
(hammer bangs)
Now I've got those poles roughly in place there,
you wanna make sure you've got these
at enough angle to try and pull this slope
or this dip out of the awning here.
I've probably not quite got them angled out that way enough.
There is a third guy rope in the middle here
that you can use, you can probably peg that down
to create a runoff spot for water if you like.
The other option to create runoff for water
is to make one side of the awning low like this
so that the water runs off.
I like to have my awnings high so I can walk underneath it,
so I'll just stretch these up as far as I can.
Tighten these guy ropes,
and that's now reasonably stiff in the middle there.
That's the RV2 tent set up, pretty straightforward.
They call it a 30 second tent,
the main part there is 30 seconds,
little bit longer for this stuff,
but that was by myself and it was only a few minutes work.
Pack up is just as easy, everything in reverse.
I start by pulling the pegs out and taking the awning down.
I've done it to make sure the awning
is rolled up before we pack the tent away,
it's much easier to get it all back in the bag
if this is secured up against the tent.
Now, we could take all the pegs out of the base,
I like to leave a couple in place in case the wind picks up
'cause the tent's sitting there freestanding.
Now there were some left of the rear pegs in,
all I need to do now is grab my little tab,
my Oztent tab at the top here,
step inside the tent and undo the Velcro tabs on the walls,
and reverse the poles so the tent folds back on itself.
As you lower this, make sure it lowers evenly
and just check the fabric at the back here
and pull it inside the tent as it goes down,
it's gonna make the getting it
in the bag a whole lot easier.
So I've grabbed my accessories,
I've put them down this side of the tent,
ready to roll it into the bag.
Now, when we fold it up we roll arm A first
across and up the top here.
Try to keep the fabric nice and flat.
Then we'll grab arm B, fold that up against
or up underneath arm A.
We'll end up with a little triangle
of fabric out here that folds over the top.
We'll grab our strap and then put it back in the bag.
(bag zips)
And that is how you pack up and set away
the Oztent RV2 Canvas Touring Tent.
You can grab these at snowys.com.au
at lowest prices every day with free delivery
to pretty much anywhere in Australia.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.
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