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- G'day, guys.
It's Ben from Snowy here today
with Oztent RV3 canvas touring tent.
Now, Oztent RV3 used to be a three to four person tent.
Realistically, it's a comfortable two,
reasonably, comfortable three.
It measures about two metres long,
27 centimetres this way,
and about 20-21 centimetres in height or width this way
depending on how you pack it up.
And the whole thing weighs in at about 22 kilos.
I'm gonna show you today how to set up,
and pack it away.
First, I'll show you what comes in the bag.
So inside the synthetic carrier bag we've got here
it's got carrier handle on the bag.
It's a really good quality bag
We got a bag of pegs with a couple of guard ropes
for our awning.
Instruction manual,
and some repair fabrics.
There's two aluminium upright awning poles in here.
And this is the main portion of the tent
all secured with a little strap here.
So we undo this,
put this stuff aside,
and we can fold this out,
and start setting it up.
And in terms of orienting our tent
there's little triangle of fabric that folds out
whichever way you point that
it's where out tent door is going to be pointing.
So we fold that out,
and once we've done that,
we're greeted with two arms that fold out.
And they are labelled A and B.
These are always folded in last when you pack it up.
So it's the first time we fold out
when we set it up.
Now, from here
we actually pull the whole tent up into shape.
The wind just picked up here just a little bit,
so what I'm gonna do is stick a couple pegs in place
just so the whole tent doesn't blow away.
So to set the tent up now,
I step inside the door here unto the floor,
and up underneath here there's a little tab
that has Oztent sown into it.
We hold that and we gradually pull the front of the tent up
and into shape.
So now, I want to make sure I hold the top here,
if I let that go it just collapses,
for I need to step inside the tent,
and there's an arm on each side
that we need to invert into place to hold it all securely.
If you've haven't got long arms,
you might need someone to hold the top of the tent for you,
but you need to hold the top with
while holding with my right arm
and I'm inverting this with my left arm here.
I'm gonna do it on the other side.
You might just need to kick this walls out a little bit,
so the front of the floor is tight.
And we also just need to do these tabs up here
around the frame,
so that this pole doesn't invert accidentally.
We do that on each side.
So that's the main or sweating corners set up.
I'll put in a couple of more pegs in the front here.
It's nice and secure.
There's also guard ropes.
One on each front corner here,
one in each rear corner.
Always recommend putting them up
if you're having it up for long periods,
And particularly if it's very windy.
Once you've done that,
we can set the awning up.
Now, I grabbed what I needed.
We've got our upright poles here,
we've got a couple of pegs.
I'll just throw them out where I need them.
I got the guard ropes that came with it,
and I've tied a couple of loops in the end here
cause we're gonna need to loop them over the top
of the spicketts here to keep it all in place.
So I put one of them in each spot.
Put the poles in place,
and then, first thing we need to do is unroll this awning.
This always stays rolled up,
when you pack it away.
So there's three tabs on here
that we do to unroll this.
Let that un-fill,
and there two sets of eyelets on the side here.
One here which we use
when we set up the optional accessory with pegs side panel.
You could set this poles up there if you wanted
or create a slope at the front.
I'm gonna put the poles in on the end eyelet here,
so the awning seats out at 1.9 metres
same height as the tent throughout.
It's got a bit windy here at the moment,
so it's blowing around a little,
but that's the tent pretty much set up.
There is another guard rope here
that we can peg out if we like
just to stop this from flapping around too much.
It could also create a bit of dip here,
so the water can run off.
But there are zips and velcro tabs
around the edges of this awning here.
They are there for the optional accessories,
the front wall and side panels,
so you can actually enclose this front awning if you wanted.
But what comes with your RV-3 that is set up.
It's pretty straight forward,
I did it by myself.
30 seconds for the main portion of the tent there,
a little bit longer to get this awning set up here.
But that was pretty straight forward.
And pack up is always just as easy.
I start by pulling the pegs out,
and taking the awning down.
So we need to make sure we roll the awning up
before we collapse the tent down.
And this needs to be rolled up
to be able to fold the tent up easily
without pinching any fabric.
Now, I let some doors and doors open as collapse it,
it allows the air to escape.
I've left a couple of pegs in the back there.
I'm gonna leave them there,
the wind just picked up here today
and I don't want the tent to blow away
once it's collapsed out I feel more comfortable doing that.
So from here,
we grab our little Oztent tab in the front here,
step inside the tent and reverse those poles
so it collapses down.
Now as we lower this, make sure it lowers evenly,
so the frames don't twist too much.
We just want to pull this fabric in the back
inside the tent here as it folds.
It just makes it nice
and neat when we roll it back up again.
Now we take the pegs out.
So I got my bag in place ready to roll the tent into
once it's folded and all my accessories up there
so I don't go searching for them later.
Now, we need to fold this arms into place.
We fold side A first,
so this got an A on it,
so we grab this here
we fold it up towards the top of the tent,
tuck it neatly against the rolled awning.
Just keep this fabric flat.
Get any dirt and rocks off.
And then we fold arm B up next to arm A.
And we are then left with this little triangle of fabric
it goes over the top here like this,
wraps around the tent.
We grab our strap,
Then you can put everything back in the bag.
That's how to set up,
and pack away the Oztent RV-3 canvas touring tent.
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Thanks for watching,
and see you next time.
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