- Set up behind me,
I have a AOS Tracker Dome Swags.
They're an awesome quality swag.
I'm gonna show you how to set them up
and pack them away.
Let's get started. - [Man] Hit it.
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- Good day, folks, Ben from Snowys here today
with an all-Australian made product
from Aussie Outback Supplies, AOS,
this is their tracker dome swag,
comes in a king single ,
and a double size here.
I'm showing you how to set it up
and pack it away today.
Now, when you buy,
they come in a bag.
This king single is about 85 centimetres long,
and the double is about a hundred and fifteen
to a hundred and twenty centimetres long.
In terms of diameter,
when they are new,
it's about thirty five centimetres,
but these are compressed and I'll show you shortly
what I mean by that.
But when they're...
Once you've used them the first time
we roll them up again,
they go up to about fifty centimetres diameter.
And that's depending on whether
you pack up your bedding inside it as well.
This guy weighs about 10 kilos,
about 12 kilos for the double there.
So not the lightest swags,
but they are made with really heavy duty materials.
And at the bottom here, there's this zipper here.
It's got a little red tab on here when you buy it from,
you know, this is a one use zipper.
The swag is compressed inside there,
that's there to kind of keep it all tight.
So I'm gonna undo this and you'll probably won't ever
be able to roll the swag up that tight again.
So let's take this tag off,
put it somewhere safe so we don't lose it.
We unzip this and that's gonna release
the compression feature inside of the mat.
Inside and we can see the bag's now
suddenly got a whole lot of extra space in it.
So when we roll it up again,
we can actually fit it inside the bag.
What this does mean today, is that the mat inside here
is gonna be quite compressed.
You need to give that foam a bit of time to expand out.
We'll start by putting it outside the bag
and show you what comes in there.
So you can see as I mentioned, this is a brand new swag,
so it's quite compressed.
The straps are really loose.
So to unpack this now, we undo the straps,
they are really good quality steel buckles
that AOS use on their swags here
and they operate really easily
with little red latches on the side.
If we unroll the swag,
at the end or the foot end,
where we start to roll it up,
there's a pocket here that's underneath the foot end.
If we undo that,
we'll then reveal all the poles,
and pegs, and instructions, that we need to set it up.
We're gonna leave the instructions in there
'cause I know what I'm doing.
We'll put these poles aside
and we'll stretch the swag right out
and start getting into tight shape.
You get everything you need,
to set the swag up in full.
So a set of peg back here,
you get a couple of heavy duty pegs,
which go in line with,
a guy ropes for each end.
You could also use the steel pegs if you like,
but you get,
four of these little light weight steel pegs,
which can go in the corners here
there's little tabs to peg that down.
Probably you don't necessarily need that
if you've got the guy ropes in each end
that's probably all you need.
And then there's three poles.
This one will make sense shortly,
but that's just to create a bit of extra space
under the blue,
owning at the end,
and then you get two alloy poles here.
Now, when you put these together,
there's an elastic that runs right down the middle.
When you put them together, make sure that
the ferrous go all the way in.
Don't try and set it up with them polly out like this.
You can damage breaking the poles,
so for them to go,
there's a longer one and a shorter one,
the longer one,
and this black pole
go at the head end of the swag here.
So put these poles in place,
they actually go into,
zipper sort of channels
that AOS have incorporated into the swag here,
it's just a number,
it's heavy duty number 10 coils zipper here.
And the pole actually gets zipped
inside this little pocket here.
Now it needs to go,
through the end of the zipper channel there,
come out the end and then fade into the pocket
at the base here that happens on each side.
They normally do this when you've kind of got
this arc like this and you pull the fabric over,
but it's gonna be a bit dark for you to see.
So I'm gonna try and do this
while it's lying, flat like this,
so you can see ,exactly what I'm doing.
So grab this in,
feed it back through that end of the zipper there,
and into the base.
Do the same thing on the opposite side.
So follow it around, it's the same zipper.
Zip around that goes around this side here,
push that through the end
and into the base.
Now you'd normally wanna try
and pull this fabric,
over the top now.
I'm just gonna show you how the zipper run works
before I do that,
because you won't be able to see it.
So this just zips over top lip zippers at the top there.
So we can see, where,
or we know where they are
when we gonna pack it up,
we're not searching for the zipper pole.
This is a little bit stiff 'cause the canvas
is really good quality canvas.
It is a stiffer canvas
so it's gonna take a little bit of time to stretch,
but when you push this pole under,
when you've normally got this up this way,
and you push this pole you'll feel it kind of
pop into place when it reaches this,
zipper channel here.
So you can see now that pole,
is really well secured
inside that zipper channel
and it's also really well,
distributing the pressure on the pole really evenly
right across that whole top curve of the pole.
From there, I'm probably not gonna be able to do it.
Oh no, it will come over the top.
Normally it's easier to pull this across
before you put the pole in place,
but will not come across pretty easily there anyway,
that's now our end-of-the-dome pole in place.
Now there's one other part
at this end to put in place
and it's the same deal.
There's another zipper channel here,
that's for this black pole here,
we put that, slide it in to one end,
and then into the other, it's not quite as tight this pole.
And then do that zipper up.
This thing opens up the little sort of owning
or vegetable at the end here a bit
to create a little bit more of a sheltered space there
without it sagging down.
Now we do the same thing with this shorter pole
at the foot end that creates the dome at the foot end.
And then we can just put the garrets in place.
So we got the domes into both ends now.
I've got the,
ridge pole in here,
we grab a garret strand and they come with
little clips on the end already,
so we can clip it into this little bottle opener
that's included with your swag here.
We can just clip that onto here, pick out each end.
There's a brass all at the foot end as well.
So by the time we pick both of these garrets out,
we create a bit of rigidity in the top here,
and we've got a bit more space in the swag.
Before we do that,
I suggest doing this zip up here.
Now, when you pack out the swag,
it's easier to undo this, so it all folds down neatly.
If we don't do this up before we put the garrets in,
we won't be able to put in the zipper up.
So before you put those garrets in
just come across, do these zippers up here
so that this fabric,
will pull tight
once you've got the garrets in place.
So that's the swag all set out.
Now, keep in mind that this is new canvas
It's really stiff at the moment,
It's high quality canvas.
So it's not hanging quite nicely right now,
but as you use it, it'll soften a little bit
and it's gonna kind of hang a bit better
and be a bit easier to manage.
So I got these garrets tight,
there is a doorway under here
that we can zip up,
and unzip that up for pack out
and I'm gonna zip that up right now.
And then we've got a few different setup options,
at the moment.
This is set up for weather protection.
So, when the rain falls it's gonna run across here,
it's gonna run down here
and off and down to the side.
So away from all the zippers that are under here.
Now you can,
set this up with just partial sort of mesh,
I suppose, at the head end here
because this mesh section here now, once again,
this is stiff coming over the top here,
but you can fold this fabric back
so that it's out the way.
And you've got a little bit of breathability
over the head end of this swag here.
Other alternative is to find your zips under here
and there's two layers for the entire swag.
So if we unzip this canvas layer,
we can roll this all the way back
and have a completely,
open mesh top.
So we've come on the other side,
there's double zip poles on here
so if we roll this all the way back,
roll this up and tuck it down at the foot end here.
We've now got,
a full mesh, inner, for really warm nights.
We just leave this tucked in at the end of the swag here.
Furthermore, you can then unzip this section here
for entry to the swag.
So just zips all the way to the foot end as well.
If we unzip the mesh,
then you've got a completely open bed area to sleep on here.
Now, there are also vents at each end here.
So you've got tonnes of ventilation option.
If we undo this canvas panel of the end here,
that opens up to a mesh panel there
and the same, if we come back up to the head end here,
there's an internally adjustable mesh
or, just gonna find the zippers, there we go.
Everything's got double zippers here.
So you can zip it both ways,
we can roll that up.
And even if you've got this top mesh done up,
you've now got,
almost a full mesh swag to sleep in
because you got mesh from foot to head here
and mesh at both ends there.
That's how you set up
or will set up options of the Tracker Dome from AOS.
Now, pack up of the swag is pretty straightforward,
so a few actually little things
I'll show you to kind of make it easier or neater.
If you're like me and you like your swag
to look nice and neat when it's rolled up,
just try these few things that has come
direct from AOS' recommendations.
So zip up the inner, but just come up to, not all the way.
So just come up to here, to the base,
so that this sits flat on the bottom here
and the same with the top layer here.
Just zip up to this point here
so you're leaving this section undone.
Once you've got them zipped up,
you can then sort of fold it, so it sits nice and flat
on the base of the swag here.
If we do all of that,
it's gonna make it easier to make
the pack size of the swag when it's rolled up smaller.
But while I'm doing this, I will mention that
you can leave some bedding inside here
with a bag that comes with the tracker swag.
You slowly have a size,
so you could leave your sleeping bag in there,
Pillow, a full-sized pillow might be a little bit much,
but you could leave a sleeping bag
or a quilt or some sheets and things inside there.
So now we're at this point,
just kind of grab this fabric
and just fold it neatly like this.
So it sits nice and flat on the bottom there.
It's gonna sit flat once I've taken these poles out.
So the next step is tighten the garrets and the poles out,
and undo the zipper poles or the zipper runs
on the end here.
Take the poles out, take the garrets out.
I'll leave the garrets on
because they just stay ready for set up next time.
And then we can complete,
we'll finish rolling at the swag.
Now when you come to this end here,
one more thing before you do go any further
is to unzip this door under here.
This is just something else you can do
to make it a little bit nicer.
You can of course, just go straight ahead
and just roll this up if you like,
you'll probably end up with a bit of fabrics
sort of sticking out the sides
and it won't be quite as neat.
But if you are worried about it being neat,
just take the time to,
zip all this up,
we push this just down inside this swag there
so that sheet comes out through there.
So we can see we've now got a nice flat section there.
This top section here will fold,
this extra flap here, we'll fold that back, on itself,
so that we can see those zipper poles that the pole sit in,
Hold this up, so we've got a bit of a dome here.
We can throw the garret up inside it
and we can now fold that flat as well.
So you can say we've now got,
a really nice and neat,
straight, swag so we can roll it.
There's not gonna be fabric sticking out the sides.
So it's gonna be easier to pack on to a car
Then before you start rolling,
make sure you've got your pegs and your poles ready.
'Cause what's gonna happen is when you start rolling
it'll always start from the head end here.
Think of it more as a fold than a row
This first you want to just
grab a point here
to roll it over.
We're gonna see,
this pocket here,
where our pegs and posts can go
so unzip that,
puts your pegs and poles in there,
secure it away.
So you know it's safe.
You just need to,
short enough to fit in.
In there as well as zip that up,
then we're now gonna,
crack it all up
and realise we've forgotten our pegs
Then from here, think of it more as a fold,
tuck the fabric as you go,
fold and row,
fold and row.
And then if you didn't drag you swag around too much,
the straps should still be sitting
in underneath 'cause they're actually sewn onto the swag.
So if we now bring this around,
we can clip this in the other side here,
really easy to use clips,
tighten that up.
Same on the other side,
tighten that up.
And now we're ready to put it back in the bag,
which I will do to show you
that these go back in the bag really easily.
So I'll put that over the top.
We can see here's that zipper,
that created the compression feature when it was new.
We're not gonna be able to do that zipper up again,
but the bag,
does kind of,
plenty of space.
So that goes over really easily,
zip that up.
You do this again next to bottle opener on your,
swag bag there.
You can see that there's still tonnes,
of extra space in there.
So if you rolled that up with a sleeping bag inside,
it'll probably fits firmly inside this bag here,
but it does cater for space for bedding
rolled up inside the swag.
That is how you,
set up and pack away
the AOS Tracker Dome.
Australian-made, really good quality,
coming in a king single and a double size pack up.
And all the features for the double
are exactly the same as the king size.
You might just need an extra person to help you roll it up,
but they're really well made swags,
pretty easy to set up,
you can check them out online,
at snowys.com.au at our lowest prices, every day.
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