G'day, Kevin from Snowys Outdoors here. Today we're going to look at the
Coleman Instant Up 10 Person Touring Tent. It's quite an easy tent to put up,
takes about three minutes, it's a bit lighter than the bigger canvas touring
tents, so it's a fairly easy thing to put up. One person should be able to handle it
quite easily. So what we'll do now is we'll open up the bag and we'll have a look
and see what's inside the bag. To start off with we've got a nice, sturdy canvas
bag here. Inside there you've got some instructions that we can clearly see how
the tent gets put up, we've also got the main tent body here, this has also got
the fly wrapped around it when it comes out of the bag,
you've got some tent poles here, these go on the awnings and the window frames,
you've got the mats for going underneath the awnings when they're out, bag of pegs
down here and ample guy ropes to tie it all down. So now what we're going to do
is we're going to get this thing set up and we'll show you just how easy it is to
assemble the Instant Up Tent. Unfold the legs, put them over centre and course the
four end poles on each corner, they have an expansion clip, so that it's just
really a matter of pulling it out till they clip into place. It's also a good
point at this stage for you to put the fly on, this makes it a bit easier
because when the tent's up it's going to be sitting way up here and to get the
fly over the top can be a bit difficult, particularly if you're on your own. Just
a good idea to make sure you've got it on the right way ready to go. You can see
the wording on the side of the tent, that fits to the front. With the front, that's
actually on the side of these tents, so I'm just going to grab this now, we'll toss
this over the top of the main tent
Doesn't have to be perfect at this stage, it's mainly just to get it on top of the
tent, so that you can easily put the tent up underneath it. Okay, now that I've
got it sitting on the top of the tent I'm just going to extend each of these
legs. Same as the tent poles, just pull them out, keep them going all the way up until
they click into place. To hold the fly on, there are 3 Velcro attachments that
wrap around the frame, we've got one at the top, one in the middle and there's
another one down at the bottom. Once these are attached you can actually hook
the fly down to the base of the legs with the plastic hook then peg out the
rest of the fly and the tent, all the way around. So to finish off then we just
grab the guy ropes, pull them out and peg them down to the ground for extra
stability. Okay, so now we're going to put the awnings up and we're going to start
with this side awning here first, there's three poles hold this awning up. On the
side we've got another awning, as well, and on the other end is two. Okay in the
top corners of each of the awnings where the pole goes, a little brass eyelet, that
simply slips over the top of the pole, hold the pole up straight, you've got an
eyelet on the end of the rope, hook that over and then you pull the rope tight
and hey presto, it's up. Okay, so these are your window flaps on the back of
the tent. They're quite easy, you've got guy ropes on the end of them
so you can quite easily tie them out, if you want to, down to the ground. But in this
case we're just gonna roll them up and put them up with some little tabs up the
top here. So it's really just a matter of rolling them up, quite easy to do, little
plastic tab there, little elastic tab hooks onto the little lock underneath
and hey presto they rolled up. Both the windows can be done like that, you can
even do it on the awnings if you want to do that as well, they also have the same
tabs at the top that you can roll up and tie off if you don't want to put the
awnings out. So that's the tent up basically, there's not much more else to
do. We've got it all nice and firm, everything's pegged down, it's ready to
use. So, now I'm going to show you how to take the fly off and pack the whole tent
away. The first thing we need to do is take down the awnings, put the poles away,
pull the guy ropes off, we undo all the way around the outside of the tent
undo the fly from the frame, take the fly off the tent, we roll that up and put
it to one side, just to drop the legs down first, all six legs have to come
down together. Just put your thumb on that pin and the
leg just pops down very nicely and easily. So now that we've got it down to
this stage here, we grab each of the legs,
fold them up to the top, then we lay her down. Just a matter of pulling the skirts out,
so that they're nice and flat. Need to put a bit of pressure on it
and then roll the tent up in a big bundle. Once the tent is rolled up, just
tie it up with the straps that come with it, then just stuff it into the canvas
bag and don't forget to put in the fly awning poles and the pegs. Okay, that's
the tent all packed up. All together it's a nice family size tent, quite
easy to put up really. The bag itself with the tent weighs 30 kilos, you've got
2-years warranty on it and if you want to find out any more information about
this tent or any others we've got, go to
snowys.com.au
Free delivery to most of Australia.
And, we'll see you again next time. Bye for now.