- Set up behind me here are the dual swags from 23Zero.
There's three in the range, they're really livable,
really easy to set up, and pack away,
and I'm gonna show you how to do it.
Let's get started.
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Ben from snowys here guys.
We're showing you how to setup and pack away
the 23Zero dual range of swags.
They're a really livable and easy to pitch swag.
There's three sizes, the 900, the 1100, and the 1400.
When you get them, when they're packed up
they look a little like this.
This is the 900 in front of me here.
About 90 centimetres in length and about
40 to 45 centimetres in diameter
depending on how tightly you roll it up.
The 1100 is a 110 centimetres in length,
and the 1400 is about 140 centimetres in length
all sharing the same diameter.
And weight wise, around about eight kilos or just under
eight kilos for the 900, through to
about 17 kilos for the double over here.
Lets get started setting it up.
Firstly ill show you what comes in the bag.
Now inside the box when you buy your swag,
all of these components actually come separate
and you kinda gotta assemble it a little bit.
I put a few things together here for you today.
Now this is the spreader pole that
goes across the middle of the tent,
two hoop poles to create the hoops on the end,
a little bag of pegs in a nice big canvas bag.
Now, this is the bag, the carry bag that you get.
Now, it's a really good quality carry bag.
Really big grab handles on the end,
shoulder straps over the top,
and the zip goes right down to the sides so
the bag actually lays flat to get the swag in and out.
So it is a really good quality carry bag
made of the same canvas that the swag's made of.
This is the swag here, so the outer with
the mat rolled up inside of it.
Now, the mat that I've got in here
has been unpacked for a while, but when you buy your swag
the mat comes rolled up like this,
compressed really tightly.
Now, when you take this out, it's gonna look pretty ugly.
It's not gonna look very puffed up at all,
and it actually says on the side here to leave it out
for about 12 hours in direct sunlight even to try and
speed up the process of getting it puffed out.
For the purpose of today's demonstration though,
I've got the actual mat in here so you get a good idea
of what it's gonna pack up like.
Now to get started,
the first thing we do is remove the straps.
Now, these straps are attached to the swag here,
we undo those and roll the swag out.
So that first step's pretty easy.
The swag's rolled out.
Now, We could go and put pegs in each corner if you like
but it is a free standing swag, we don't need to do that,
unless the weather's really bad.
I'm just gonna use 2 pegs for each end,
the awning of each end.
You do get six pegs with your swag so you can
peg it down if you like.
Now, the next step is to grab each of these poles
and assemble them.
They're three section poles and they're
pre-bent so they do already have a curve to them.
We put them together.
Now, there is a really important step
in the interest of making sure you don't break these poles
in how you put 'em in the end of the swag.
So, quite often we'll have people that have broken the pole
at this join here and it's simply because we're putting
too much strain on one point of the pole.
So, follow these steps, you won't have any problems.
First thing you wanna do is find the sleeve at the top here.
We feed the pole through this sleeve above the eyelet here
so the pole is running above this eyelet here,
and push that through to the middle of the pole here.
From here, reach across and grab the pin in the corner here,
and put one pin in place.
As you do this, don't force the pole too much.
Don't create too much bending.
Now you'll notice when I've done that,
that I've now got a short section of pole here
before the sleeve, and a long section at this end
to this point here.
Now, this is where people often
find they'll break their poles.
They'll bend this point down to put this pin in place
and end up with a big bend here right across this join,
and that's a point where it can be a failure.
What we need to do is pull this sleeve across
so it sits in the middle of the pole,
as close as we can to the middle,
before we bend this end down and put this pin in place.
And what that does is distribute the stress on the pole
evenly on this side, this sleeve here
stops it from peaking too much in the middle,
and you've got an even distribution here as well.
We can then put the clips on.
As we do it, make sure we don't
push the pole out to one side.
Better still, clip one side, then the other,
then back to the other side, back and forward
so that this pole stays nice and central.
If you follow these steps,
you won't have any problems with these poles.
If you force it, or had a big bend
all at one point of the pole,
you can end up with a breakage.
Now I've just done the same thing with
the loop at the other end of the swag here,
once again being careful to keep the pole
nice and central so the weight's evenly distributed.
Now we've got the hoops in the end,
the next step is to grab our ridge pole
and we put that in place in these eyelets here.
So I just gotta grab that one and we'll show you.
Now this is joined, this ridge pole.
We bend it, there's a spring in the middle there
to put it together, and then we release this buckle
which allows us to extend it out.
At each end, there's a spigot,
and these spigots go into the eyelets
at the top of each hoop here.
So we put that one in one end,
hold that up,
bring the other end up and put that in place as well.
Once we've got them in place,
we can stretch this out to
tighten up the centre of the pole.
Give it a good firm pull.
Clip this down, and that will then lock that in place
to give it it's freestanding feature.
There's a couple of C clips on the end here,
clip over the pole, and we're almost set up.
The last thing we wanna do,
the last thing I'm gonna do today,
is put a peg in the guy at the awning at each end.
So we've just got a guy rope like this,
the same at the other end of the swag here,
just gives us a bit of protection over this doorway here.
You don't have to peg him out,
it gives reasonable protection
even if that's just sitting loose.
If we do peg it out, it creates a little bit more
rigidity across the length of the tent
and also creates a bit more ventilation up underneath here.
So one peg at each end, and we're all done.
Now that's the swag pretty much set up,
just pull the corners out,
make sure they're not caught up in any of the dirt,
and obviously I've got my mat inside here now,
but if you're setting it up from new,
you'd need to throw your mat in there.
From there on in, you can leave
your mat in when you pack it up.
There's one other thing you can do for setup.
Now, you'd need some extra awning poles,
short awning poles to do this, optional awning poles.
And that's to pitch this door out as an awning.
Now you can do it on both sides,
so you would need four awning poles in total.
There's little eyelets on each corner here,
and you can actually pitch this out with
two extra awning poles and a couple of guy ropes
to create a little sheltered awning,
just outside your swag here.
Apart from that, that's how to set up the 23Zero
dual range of swags.
The process is the same for the 1100 and the 1400,
they're just a little bit wider.
Packup, just as easy.
First thing, take the Pegs out of the
guy ropes at the ends, poles out and then we roll it up.
Now when we take these hoop poles out the end here,
we wanna apply the same logic we did when we set them up
so that we're not creating too much stress
on one side of the pole than the other.
So what I'm gonna do is sort of keep hold
of the pole at the top here,
un-clip the sides and make sure it doesn't sort of,
this doesn't slide to one side and
create a big hoop on one side just to keep that
stress even, so we don't damage the pole.
Now I'm gonna roll the poles up inside the swag here,
but we do need to have some consideration with this.
If we're gonna use the swag to sit on,
then you're probably best leaving the poles out
because you don't wanna bend these
while they're inside the swag.
If you're just rolling it up and putting it inside
the back of your vehicle, it should be fine
because they're reasonably well protected wrapped
up inside the mat here.
But just have a little bit of consideration about
how these sit inside the swag,
how you're tying it down so you don't
damage those poles in transit.
I'm rolling from the end that hasn't got the straps,
up toward the attached straps so
we can wrap around afterwards.
Now the design of this bag makes it easy to get
your Swag in without even having to lift it up
because you can roll this end out here,
roll the swag over on top of the bag,
pull the sides up and then this
just wraps up over the top.
Well that went back in the bag pretty easily.
Probably the best bit of advice I can give you
is to make sure as you roll it,
you pull the fabric and doors in on the side so
they stay contained within the width of the mat,
cause it's the length here that's probably
the hardest thing to squeeze in.
Diameter wise, it's nice and easy.
And that is how you set up and pack away
the 23Zero Dual Swag.
Same process for all the three sizes.
Was nice and easy, all by myself.
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