- Ben from Snowys here, folks.
Today, I'm taking you for a walkthrough
of the DS-1 Pitch Black Single Swag from Oztent.
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The DS-1 Swag is a dual skin swag.
So it's a twist on a traditional swag
that offers a really weatherproof shelter for one.
So I've got the DS-1 Pitch Black Swag from Oztent
set up behind me here.
Now, a lot of people are gonna jump in and say,
that's not a swag, it's a tent,
cause it is a dual skin setup.
It's got a fly over the top of an inner.
There's a lot more pegs than your traditional swag,
but, hey, it's something different
and maybe it kind of bridges that gap,
and it does offer really good weather protection
and a lot of setup options.
So a run through of the features today
and I'll lie in there and show you how I fit inside.
To start with the boring stuff.
It weighs about 9.75 kilos set up like this.
If you take into account all the fabric at the ends there,
it measures about a bit over three metres,
about 3.2, 3.3 metres.
The inner tent is about 2.1 metres,
about 90 centimetres width inside,
but we'll talk more on sleeping space shortly.
At this end it's about 95 centimetres at its highest point,
little bit less for head space
and that tapers down to about 80 centimetres
at the foot end here.
So it's made primarily
of the same eight ounce polycotton canvas
that Oztent have used for all their RV tents.
But the main difference is,
if we have a look at this Pitch Black Tech logo
they've got here.
So they've moved to putting this black coating on the inside
of the polycotton fabric of the flysheet.
Now this blocks out, what do they say, 95% of the light.
So it allows you to sleep in longer,
stops as much warmth or light coming inside the tent.
So it cools it down a little bit.
The main thing, though, is that it makes it darker inside.
So if it is a light moonlit night,
if you have trouble sleeping on those nights
this is gonna make it nice and dark inside.
Now, inside, the other fabrics also consist
of the same polycotton canvas.
This does not have the black lining
on the back of it though,
but the same eight ounce ripstop polycotton canvas,
65 GSM mesh within here.
And there's a little bit...
I'll talk about these being replaceable.
We'll talk a bit more on that shortly.
And 350 GSM PVC for the base,
which is a big bucket floor here, so a nice waterproof base.
The poles are an anodized aluminium,
so you've got two flexible hoop poles
at the end here and at the top.
I'm not sure if we can quite see it,
but we'll see it when we pull this fly off later.
There's a ridge pole along here
that's also anodized aluminium.
Now, before I jump inside
I wanna have a walk around the outside of the tent,
cause this is probably where it differs the most
from traditional swags.
So this is a flysheet. This comes off completely.
You can use it without the fly sheet,
and I'll show you more on that shortly.
And it has this big skirt around the side here.
So, if we maybe have a bit of a walk around the tent...
I haven't got it pegged out on this side,
I'll go into a bit more on that shortly.
But we've got another door here. We'll talk on that shortly.
But right around the back here I've got it pegged out,
and you can see this actually creates
a really waterproof space or a weatherproof space
for the tent.
So if you are caught up in really bad weather,
you can use the guy ropes as well
if it is in really bad weather.
This creates a really good way for the water to shed off
and also less wind just to get inside the tent.
So this is all pegged out on the bottom.
You don't have to peg them out,
but it gives really good bomb proof
or weather protection for this tent.
There is a vent at the head end of the swag here as well,
with a little kickstand in there so we can open that up
to allow high level ventilation
to allow that warm air to escape out the tent
and also ventilation through the tent.
As I mentioned, we're pegged along the bottom here.
So there's no door on this side.
This is just a solid side of the tent.
So it offers really good weather protection.
And then at the rear here,
once again it's got all those skirts coming right down
around the base here, so really good protection.
Got another vent at the back here
with a little kickstand in there so we can open that up
and allow more ventilation,
and the guy ropes at the end here.
Now at this end of the tent, there is a small vestibule.
You can't access it from inside, so you probably need to
just stuff stuff underneath like this
if you wanted to store stuff in there.
I'll just pull this out and try and show you how it looks.
You've just got probably about 30 centimetres of space here
from here to here just to store
probably your boots or something.
So stick your boots under there at night and peg this out.
It's gonna keep them nice and weatherproof.
And the benefit of this is you don't have to worry
about weather or wind-driven rain
getting in underneath this awning,
cause if you peg all this out like this
it's offering you really good protection in there.
So your boots are gonna stay nice and dry
even if it is really windy and wet overnight.
So back around this side I just wanna cover off
on the door configuration.
So you've got two entrance points here,
the first one being this long section here.
So there's a zip that runs underneath this orange flap here
and the same at the foot end here, undo this one as well.
And we can roll this up to the top here
to keep it up and out of the way if you like.
There's these tabs, three of these tabs along the top here.
So we can actually secure this up
so you've got it open during the night
if it starts off as a nice night,
but you've got it there to roll down
if it does happen to rain during the night.
Your other alternative here is to set this up as an awning.
Now you'd need optional awning swag poles to do this,
but you've got a eyelets here
and also an eyelet in the skirt on the end there.
You're probably best using this eyelet here
and pegging this out like this.
this will kind of hang down like a little gutter, I suppose,
offer a little bit more sort shade protection there.
But you can set that up
as a little sheltered entrance to your tent.
Now on top of that, if you are seeing really bad weather
and you do wanna peg the skirt out along here,
cause this is the long section of the tent
so this is gonna flap around the most.
So if you wanted to peg this down
to offer really good weather protection inside,
you can do that, leave this section sealed closed
and then just use the entrance on this end of the tent here.
So this portion on this side of the end here
is a vestibule entrance inside the tent.
So we can just roll this back and secure it here,
a little bit like a hiking tent, I suppose.
We secure that on the side here.
We've now got the storage vestibule here
and also another entrance inside the tent there.
So, about 70 centimetres of measurement from here to here.
So you're not gonna fit a lot of gear in there
but you could probably, if you had to, I guess,
use a Trangia or something just in here.
There's enough space for a bit of weather protection.
Now, I wanna show you inside the tent.
Because of this pitch black fabric it's really dark inside.
So I'm actually just gonna throw this, the fly sheet,
over to the side and we'll show you how big the interior is
and a few other features there as well.
Okay, so I've just got the fly sitting at the back there.
So this inner tent is...
I've just got one loop around there,
but that's independent, that's free standing.
We can see now we've got polycotton canvas,
that's 65 GSM, mesh through the middle here.
This is the anodized extender pole, or ridge pole,
that I was talking about.
And we've got color-coded poles here too.
So orange at this end lines up with orange tabs
and then the black end for set up,
black tabs for the black pole.
Pretty simple.
Now this measures
about 210 centimetre sleeping space inside.
It's about 210 centimetres in length
and about 90 centimetres in width.
The mattress is just a little bit smaller than that.
Now one really cool feature of this swag is
they've used a fine mesh here.
A lot of swags don't use a really heavy duty mesh.
It's still a durable mesh,
but I guess what I what Oztent have maybe done is,
is understand that this is probably
one of the weaker fabrics in any swag.
So they've made this entire section replaceable.
So this zip operates to obviously allow you to roll this up
and peg it up in the middle here.
So you can have a completely open sleeping space
if you like, but it actually runs all the way around
and you can remove this completely.
So if I zip this right up around here,
you can see that that's now just hanging
on the pole in the middle there.
So I've removed that entire section.
We've now just got an open sleeping space here.
So I'll put this back on to get back inside the tent,
but I just wanted to show you
how easy it is to take on and off if you do need to.
It zips up again and I wanna zip this up
so that I can get inside the tent
and show you how much space I've got in there.
So I'll leave the zip down.
I'm just gonna throw this over the top
cause I want to crawl inside the swag
and show you the features in there.
Now this is the mat.
It's included. It's a five centimetre mat.
I wouldn't say it's really thick or super firm.
Fine, it's gonna be easier to roll up,
but you can always upgrade any swag mat with another mat.
So any mat that's about 200 centimetres in length
and about 90 centimetres in width is gonna fit in here.
The only thing is it's gonna make it
a little bit firmer to roll up.
So whether you fit it back in a bag or not
is another question.
You probably need to roll it a few times
to squeeze the air out of those self-inflating mats.
We've got another video to show you how to do that.
Now this cover is...
it is removable, got a zipper along the top here.
So you can take the foam out, wash that if you like,
but for the most part you can probably surface clean it
or throw another sheet over the top.
It's easier to wash the sheet.
Now inside the tent, we've got a few features,
a few little storage pockets, which is pretty cool.
So this mesh pocket attached to the side here,
just for a bit of storage, keep your keys, phone, et cetera
at hand at night so you don't lose them.
Same thing features on the other side here.
And you've also got a couple of little pockets
at the head end here.
So a slightly heavier duty mesh here, but that's sort of...
it's a bit rounded on the bottom
so you can probably put a water bottle in there.
And on the opposite side here slightly higher up,
same thing features.
Now it's higher on that side
because below that is actually a power access point.
So this is the spot where we can get 12 or 240 volt power
inside the tent and hang a lantern in here.
To hang the lantern, if we have a look at the top here
we've actually got tabs that feature
which would be useful for like a 12 volt light bar.
So there's one, there's one at the end here,
two, three, four, and five of those.
They're little elastic straps
so you could put a light bar in there if you like
or just hang a small lantern on it.
You probably don't wanna put a big lantern on there,
it's gonna hang down really low anyway,
but a small lantern inside a swag
is certainly gonna do the job.
At the head end here we have a mesh access point.
So if we're not using this access point here
we can access the tent in and out through here as well.
And at the foot end we've just got a mesh panel
which is a vent.
So we can't open that.
So we can't access that vestibule, like we talked about,
from inside the tent here.
We need to get to that from the outside.
But this allows ventilation through the tent
and to that vent that features
in the flysheet at the rear there.
Now the height of the tent, as I mentioned previously,
tapers to this end here.
So you've got about 70 centimetres
of internal height at this end here.
And then back up at the head end here
it's just over 80 centimetres from the top of the mat.
So if you put a thicker mattress in
you're gonna lose some of that space.
And lengthwise about 210 centimetres,
as I mentioned, of sleeping space
and about 90 centimetres in width.
But the mat, as previously mentioned, just under that.
Now I'm 185 centimetres in length.
There's tonnes of space in here for me.
So, big feet as well, so plenty of height for my feet.
If I lay down, I've got...
take my hat off,
I've got plenty of head space, my feet are on the end.
So if I've got a bulky sleeping bag
it would probably be touching the end there.
But if it was a cold night I'd have the flysheet on.
And our ventilation too is not gonna be
an issue with condensation.
And heaps of shoulder space here, heaps of room.
I could probably sleep in here with my dog if I wanted,
so lots of room inside the tent here.
And I can see straight up at the sky.
If I've got, this is zipped up during the night,
I'd be lying here stargazing all night.
Obviously if the flysheet was over the top
that'd be a different story,
but for a nice warm night this is the perfect tent
with tonnes and tonnes of ventilation.
That is a run through of Oztent's DS-1 Pitch Black Swag.
Maybe a tent, maybe a swag.
I would say it's in the swag category,
but it's a little bit different than the traditional swags
and offers an alternative
that gives you really, really good weather protection
if you find yourself in really bad weather
with that skirt around the edge.
Peg it out,
you can keep all sorts of wind and rain out of it.
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