- Hey folks, we've got a range of our most popular
quick pitch touring tents setup behind me here today,
starting from the lightweight and affordable
right through to the heavy duty canvas.
I'm gonna take you for a walk through, let's check 'em out.
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Hey folks Ben from Snowys here.
Today, the Brownhill Creek Caravan Park,
a beautiful sunny day.
This is a great spot if you want to base yourself somewhere
to check out the Adelaide hills,
it's in Adelaide's leafy eastern suburbs.
I've got that awesome showdown here for you today
between Coleman, Black Wolf, and Oztent.
These are all touring tents or camping
and touring tent set up behind me here.
They all have a quick pitch frame feature of some form
and they all sleep around about four people.
It's about 240 centimetres
by 240 centimetres in sleeping space.
We'll start at this end with our most affordable
and lightweight option which is the Coleman Instant Up
Silver series and this is the four person version.
This weighs in at about 12 kilos so just over
and it's made with 150 denier polyester.
The floor is a crinkly top type material or a polyethylene
and the frame is a 20 millimetre steel frame.
It's probably better served for general camping,
but you can use it for a lightweight touring
so that means you just need to be aware
that it's not as durable as the canvas tents
that you'll see the end of this video.
As we move on there's another tent that sits in between here
that we haven't got setup today
and that's the OZtrail fast frame series.
Shares similar materials to the tent we've just talked about
to my right here, but it does have an upgraded floor
with 150 denier polyester floor and it also has
an awning that has a few more features on it.
You can add side walls and front panels
and it comes with a slightly heavier weight
at around about 15 kilos as well, just over.
Moving on from that is the Coleman Instant Up
Gold four person tent.
Now there's a number of tents in the Gold range.
This one sleeps four people,
now slightly heavier in weight than the Silver series
at about 15 kilos, it's got better quality fabrics.
It's a 75 denier polyester,
lesser denier but it's a much nicer fabric.
It's got a Poly-Oxford floor,
which doesn't have that crinkly feel.
It's got a PVC coating so it's much heavier duty floor,
but it does have the same frame at about
a 20 millimetre steel quick pitch frame.
You do get extra poles with this tent here,
so you can set this front awning up
as a three pole awning with a peak in it.
You can do the same thing with a removable awning.
The features on the side of the tent there,
that can actually be removed completely
and placed on the other side of the tent.
Moving on from this tent there is another tent
that kind of sits in between this one and the next one,
which is called the Coleman Darkroom series in tents.
It also comes in a four person,
very similar almost identical to this tent here,
apart from the fact that the fabric has got
what's known as a darkroom coating on the back,
which blocks out most of the light
and the vestibule on the front here is much larger.
There's a brow pole that comes out here,
it gives you much more living space
in the front of the tent.
Much like the next tent in our series here,
which has got a larger vestibule at the front here.
Now the Darkroom I just talked about,
the Coleman Darkroom weighs in at about 15 to 16 kilos.
As we come up to the Black Wolf Turbo 240 X-Lite LF here,
our weight drops back down to about 14 kilos
but we do get a bit of extra durability out of that.
It's made with 150 denier polyester exterior.
The floor is a nice heavy-duty 500 denier Poly-Oxford floor
and the frame is a combination of a 23 millimetre aluminium
upright pole and some composite poles in the roof section,
which gives it a nice small pack size.
There's a unique awning, a unique vestibule
at the front here where we've got access on this side.
You can also access it on the other side
and we can also set this front door up
as an awning out the front here similar to
the Coleman tents we just looked at.
So this is quite a good balance between general camping
while offering a lot of the durability you might need
for full drive touring.
Now moving on from there we get up to the Black Wolf
core range of Turbo tents.
Now these guys are available in both
light and canvas material.
Same tent, different materials.
At about 19 to 24 kilos for the 240 version I've got here,
but there is a whole range of options
in the Turbo tent series.
The lightweight materials are 150 denier polyester
with a 500 denier floor,
but the canvas which I've got set up here
is a 230 GSM ripstop poly cotton canvas
with a 600 denier floor.
So they're nice and durable and the frame is also a 23
or a 25 millimetre aluminium frame.
So these guys are made more for touring.
They're a much heavier duty tent.
You've also got a lot of options for these,
add-ons, sidewalls, front panels,
extender awnings that you can put at the front
so you're really opening up your options
when you get to the Turbo tent range.
Going on from there there's a couple more tents
that's sitting between here
that we haven't got set up today.
The first one being the Oztent Oxley.
Very similar to the Turbo tent, similar in weights,
both canvas and light materials are available
in the Oxley tents as well
and they set up in a similar manner.
Slightly different mechanism in the way the pole
or the frame sets up, but even the frame
is a similar size aluminium.
The awning out the front too,
you can attach side panels to that to enclose that space.
The one big benefit of the Oxley
is they have a heavy duty PVC floor,
which adds a little bit of weight
but adds a whole lot more durability.
Next one I'm from that, also not set up today
is the Explorer Planet Earth Speedy Earth Tent.
It's a lesser known tent that offers a lot of living space,
but it is quite bulky and weighs in at about 26 kilos.
Made from a canvas material as well,
also with a heavy-duty PVC floor.
Probably a good tent for long-term stays
if that's what you tend to do rather than a touring tent.
And moving on from here is what I think
is the ultimate touring tent for full drivers.
This is the Oztent RV tent.
Now this was the quickest tent to set up today.
It's got a really quick pitch frame feature
and you can have a whole thing set up, pegs and poles
and everything in under five minutes I reckon.
Also made with canvas, it's an 8-ounce ripstop canvas
and it has a nice heavy-duty PVC floor
and it's an extruded aluminium frame inside there.
Weighs in at about 23 kilos.
You can also get accessories for this
so you can enclose this front room
and you can set this up as a peaked awning if you like,
there's a lot of options that you can add on
to your Oztent RV tent.
Now this is a single skin tent.
The only single skin tent apart from the Speedy Earth tent
that we've seen in the range here.
So you can get condensation issues inside the tent,
but there is an accessory called the Oztent Fly
that you can add to it to mitigate those issues.
There's one other tent I'm going to mention in the range
and that is the Oztent RX series tents.
Almost identical to the RV tent we see behind us here.
There's an RX-4 and a RX-5.
They're made with a slightly different material
a mod con canvas, which is a synthetic.
The benefits of the RX series is it comes with
all the accessories you need to fully enclose
this front room here with a zip in floor, zip on sidewalls,
it also has a nice big skylight for the main tent.
There's a few extra features.
Downside is the whole tent weighs about 35 kilos,
so potentially a little bit heavy for touring,
but it's great once again for long stay camping.
Now the one thing I haven't talked about so far
is the pack size of all these tents,
which is an important consideration
depending on what vehicle you've got and also if
you're trying to keep the weight of your vehicle down.
Although the Oztent was my favourite tents in the range
you can see that it does pack up
to a very long package here.
It's about two metres long so you're going to need
a roof rack or a trailer to transport that.
This and the Black Wolf bags are made of
a much heavier duty material than the Coleman ones in front
and the Black Wolf ones here are much shorter,
but they are quite sort of round and fat
when they're packed up and they're going to be
much easier to fit in the boot of an SUV or a station waggon.
And moving up to the Coleman Instant Up series here,
much more compact, lighter weight bags.
They're going to fit in smaller cars much easier.
Now we've got an instruction on setup as well
as walkthrough videos for all of the tents
you can see set up behind me here today,
so jump on our website snowys.com.au and check 'em all out.
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Tell us which of these tents that you reckon is the best,
could be something different than what's in the video.
Let us know down in the comments below.
Thanks for watching guys.
We'll see you next time.
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