- Hi, Kevin from Snowys Outdoors here.
Today I'm gonna show you how to set up
and pack away the Zempire Pronto 4 Air Tent.
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So this is easy to erect.
It comes with air poles, it includes its own pump,
and can be erected by one person.
Now, the tent comes in this really handy carry bag.
It's got some good handles on it,
and some tensioning straps.
It weighs 13.7 kilos.
And the dimensions are 72 centimetres long,
by approximately 36 by 36 centimetres in dimensions.
Now we'll have a look what's inside.
So this is what you get with the tent.
Now, over here, you've got the drawstring bag.
Quite a durable bag.
You can see it's got an expandable section on the side,
so that if can't get the tent right up quite tightly,
it can still fit in the bag okay.
This is, of course, your tent with a couple of tie straps
that go all the way around as you're tying it up.
You've got awning poles over here, that are for the awning,
they come in their own bag.
Tent pegs and guy ropes,
as well as the pump, both of those in their own bag.
Now with the pump, when you set it up,
first thing you do
is you put the pressure relief valve on here first,
and then you fit the pressure gauge onto it after that.
Then you are able to connect the hose
that gets attached to your tent,
and that's what you pump it up with.
Okay, now when you're assembling this tent,
there are instructions inside the bag.
They're actually sewn in so you can't lose them
which is a really good idea.
You can pull them out,
but good idea to leave them in the pocket.
Right, so now let's unroll it.
And we start assembling the tent.
Alright, so pull that out.
Now, it's important to get the orientation of your tent,
work out where the front is so you know which way it sits.
So this is the front.
You can see there's a couple of eyelets there.
That's where the tent poles go in for your awning.
There's one there, one down here on the other corner.
Now, I want the tent to face in that direction
so I'm just gonna turn it around.
And now I'll just peg out the base.
So this is the eyelet.
You need to put your peg into here.
This makes sure that the tent is out nice and tight.
You do all four corners first.
Okay, we'll get the pump.
You can see at the front of this...
Well, this is actually the side.
This is called a Boston valve.
Now, the Boston valve's in two pieces.
See the little flap there? That's your valve.
And that is what you use to evacuate the air
when you're disassembling the tent.
But to pump it up,
make sure that's screwed in nice and tight.
You take off the top cap
and this is what you put your pump on.
Okay, last few screws to get that on.
Now, there's one valve on this end,
and there's another valve on the other end of the tent.
So we're all set up, now let's start pumping.
So you're starting to fill the sleeves up.
You'll get exercise doing this.
Now just while I'm doing that,
I'll just point something out.
This has a choice.
You can either have this as a double-action pump.
You switch that around, you have a single-action pump.
What that means is that the pump is pumping on one stroke.
You can hear, it is sucking air in on the upstroke
and pumping it out on the downstroke.
It goes back to the double action.
I'm actually sucking and pumping on both strokes,
so it gives you a little bit more speed.
Anyway, we'll keep going.
Once it get a bit tight, just stop what you're doing.
Just help the tent get up into the erected position.
See, it's already creating it's shape.
And then just keep pumping up, add some more air to it.
You see, we're at almost at seven PSI,
which is what they recommend.
Okay, that's seven PSI.
That's enough air in the bladders.
And we take the hose off here.
Careful not to loosen that Boston valve,
'cause you will lose all the air you've just put in.
And put your cap on nice and tight.
So as you can see, there's lots of pegs around the base.
I'm just gonna show you how to do a couple.
This peg fits into the corner like so,
and helps hold it down.
And of course, we'll also do one in the centre of the tent.
Now, these pegs are on all corners on all sides.
Now, when you're camping, you should always put them all in.
Don't cheat and think it's not gonna bother.
Get them all in. Holds the tent down properly.
Now on each corner there is a guy rope.
In the centre there is a guy rope up as well.
These also need to be put down.
We're not gonna bother with that today.
It's not very windy.
We're just showing you how it gets assembled.
But if you're out camping, it's essential.
You put down all the guy ropes, all the tent pegs.
If you do happen to get the gust of wind,
it's not gonna hold your tent down,
it's just gonna take off.
What I will show you, however,
is how the awning gets put up.
Now, the awning has two poles that come with it.
They're a three-piece pole.
That's what they look like when they're assembled.
It's a good idea to assemble them first.
You have a centrepiece that goes into the top.
Top is obvious, you've got a little spike up there.
And the bottom pole goes in there.
And just put them at the side of your tent so they're ready.
Okay now, with the guy ropes, there's two long guy ropes
and two short guy ropes.
The two long guy ropes is what goes on the poles,
and these two shorter ones
which will go on the side of the awning,
which I'll show you later.
Now, just a good idea to do this first,
is to put a loop on each end of the guy ropes.
You can do a bow line if you want to,
or just do a simple knot like that.
That's what will go over the pole.
So over here, we've got a zipper,
and some Velcro tabs.
All the way up.
And of course, at this end, we do the same.
Now, this is where you grab your pole,
pop it in the little metal eyelet we showed you earlier.
Now, you can put your guy rope over the top of the pole
like this if you one to,
or you can simply slip it through here
and tie it off if you want to.
Just for this exercise,
I'm gonna put it on top of the pole.
On the end of the guy rope, there is a little pull.
That's the part that goes around your tent peg.
So just pull that through a little bit.
And you pull it out so it's at a nice 45 degree angle.
Put your peg in your loop, pull it out,
have it in the ground.
It's nice and soft. I don't really need a mallet.
And you pull your tent peg pole tight.
And then you do the same with the other side.
Okay, so we've got our peg.
And push it into the ground.
I can use these slides to put tension in the rope,
make it nice and tight.
Now, on this side,
this is where you actually can tie it down
with your guy rope.
This is the short guy rope.
I'm gonna tie this on here permanently.
Hope that loops.
And this is what I'm going to peg down.
Get that stretch out the way.
Down here.
So you sorta judge it,
so that you're pulling it in a nice, neat angle.
You can let it go a bit longer if you want to.
And once again, straight into the ground.
Luckily it's soft ground once again.
And that's the side tied in.
And now we going and do the other side.
Now, over this side, we can tie it down the same.
Or if you want to, you can roll it up.
You can see, there's this little T block there,
and another one there.
That means you can actually roll this awning up here,
or the side of the awning, pop it over there.
You've got a loop.
That T piece goes through, and it holds it off nicely.
And another one just here.
And you're going to leave it up like that if you want to,
or you can have it tied down like it is on the other side.
Now, the last thing we need to do is at the back here.
You've got this little flap.
This can get get pulled out.
You can see, it gives you a little bit more air.
It allows the air to get underneath the tent,
and a bit of air flow.
This gets pegged in the same as all the others.
You got an adjustment on there if you want to.
And of course, you've got your guy rope here.
Once again, you can pull that in.
And just go around this side here.
I just want to reiterate
that you need to have all the pegs in the tent,
all the guy ropes tied down.
That's what makes it secure.
And as always, my recommendation
is to put a ground sheet underneath your tent.
Ground sheet not only needs to be a tarp
or something you buy from a hardware store.
The idea of the ground she had is to protect the floor
from anything sharp from cutting through it.
It's not a waterproofing layer.
The floor is already waterproof.
You just need to protect it from anything sharp.
So now I'm going to show how the whole tent is dismantled.
Now it's very important
that everything gets zipped up first,
all of the windows and doors, which I'll do now.
Now, just one thing to note,
you don't have to zip it all the way up,
because you do have to let the air come out of the tent
when it goes down.
So from there, we go onto the awning.
You can actually leave these ones tied on if you want to,
but I'm just taking them off.
And then we zip this up the front, all the way down.
Now at this point,
all of your guy ropes need to be taken out,
as well as the other tent pegs.
But leave the four in the corner 'til the last minute.
And we come around here, we'll undo the Boston valves.
You can hear the air coming out already.
And down she goes.
Allow it to completely deflate.
And once it's down, then you can take out your corner pegs.
It's also a good idea to undo both the valves.
Even though it came down with one,
this allows all of the air
to escape the tubes quite comfortably.
Then it's just a matter of throwing it
into a nice rectangular shape.
Should fly over into the centre of the tent.
Now, a good idea is to get your bag.
The tent has to fold up into that length.
So if we lay that bag just on the valve side of the tent,
this allows the air to escape when you fold it up.
Just fold half over and do the same to the other side.
And then we fold that half over the top again.
Now, you can see, if you look at the bag
and look at the tent,
I got it pretty much the right length to go into the bag.
And starting from opposite the outside valve side,
start roll.
Squash as we go.
Let's all of the air out of the air holes,
and out of the tent as well.
I stick my knee on it sometimes,
just to squash out of the last of the air.
You can see, it's gone down nice and flat.
Now, there are a couple of straps just over here.
This is a double ring.
Pop this right around the tent on one end.
Just pull it over the top, and here we go.
Now, remember there was some few other bits
that went in here?
And something I've always found:
when you buy a tent and you unwrap it from a box,
It's all nice and neat,
but it doesn't always go back exactly how you want it to.
And that's just the nature of the way they pack it
in the factory.
The advantage of this bag
is you have this expandable section here.
You can see, so it actually expands and allows you
to get those things back in nice and safe and secure.
I'll do up these D rings again.
I've almost got it back to its original shape.
So that's it for the erecting and dismantling
of the Pronto 4 Air Tent from Zempire.
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