Hi guys!
First post and a silly question I know but.....we are going camping for our family holiday this August.we have all the required gear and have a vango orava 600 xl tent.
We have practised putting it up a few times but are struggling.it says pitch time 20 minutes......yesterday it took us nearly 2 hrs!.the problem we are having is working out how to get the tent up after threading poles through.are there any videos out there showing how to do it?thanks
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Try this one in real time.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIvHUH4YMIo
Took 15 mins but in ideal ground conditions and I noticed that they didn't knock all the pegs right in.
As with all tents peg the corners 1st, the tent will then be stable when you lift the poles.
It can help if you loft the tent (get some air into it) before you lift the poles and make sure the doors are open. Close doors when poles are up.
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Hi salmonking,
We have just got back after our first weekend tryout of the Vango Orava 500xl and we all watched the pitching video before we went. I don't know if you got kids but my 13 year old daughter was in charge of the poles and my 16 year old son helped me put the foot print down and position the tent and hand me pegs as i needed them. once you get the first pole up in place the rest goes up easy. we had the tent pitched and everything sorted inside in just over 1 hour.
Taking it down was abit harder because it was rather windy
but just did reverse of pitching and left the 4 corner pegs inplace til the last minute and made had 4 people layed on the tent just in case. Hope you have a fab time just think the pitching of the tent is all part of the holiday!!!
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Cross camping method on YouTube best way to pitch tents by miles
Even Outwell adopted Gary's method for their steel poled tents a couple of years back
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Thanks guys.after watching the videos,we want and had another go this afternoon.....so,yesterday it took nearly 2 hours to put up......today....it took 1 hour to put up and take down!!all down to your help!.
Hi lummo,we have 2 girls
One 10 and one 5,believe me,the last thing I need is then helping
One thing I noticed on the first video is that the tent doors were all closed.
I'd recommend opening the doors for pitching and breaking down the tent. With a sewn in groundsheet and the doors closed you create a suction which can make the tent harder to erect, and trap the air when putting it down.
I always make sure the doors are open (just hanging loose), peg the corners, put in the poles (same as Gary's video above) and put the tent up. Once the tent is up, close the doors before pegging out (to make sure that the doors will open/close easily).
When packing down, open the doors, leave the bedroom compartments in place (open the bedroom compartment doors but leave them hanging loose). Unless it is windy, take out all the guy ropes apart from the front and rear ones, then remove the poles, allow the tent to drop and remove the other guy ropes. Then unpeg the tent.
Put the bag at one end and fold the tent to just a little smaller than the bag. If the tent has a side door then start folding from the opposite end (to push air out). Keep folding the tent, squishing air out each time and you should end up with a long length of tent just a little narrower than your bag. Starting at the back of the tent roll it up as tightly as you can, rolling towards the front (also to push air out). When you have it rolled, tie it off if it came with ties. Dont try to put it in the bag, put the bag over the tent and pull it around, then zip it up. If it is one of the newer open plan bags then even easier.
Quote: Originally posted by HighSlayer on 05/7/2017
One thing I noticed on the first video is that the tent doors were all closed.
I'd recommend opening the doors for pitching and breaking down the tent. With a sewn in groundsheet and the doors closed you create a suction which can make the tent harder to erect, and trap the air when putting it down.
I always make sure the doors are open (just hanging loose), peg the corners, put in the poles (same as Gary's video above) and put the tent up. Once the tent is up, close the doors before pegging out (to make sure that the doors will open/close easily).
When packing down, open the doors, leave the bedroom compartments in place (open the bedroom compartment doors but leave them hanging loose). Unless it is windy, take out all the guy ropes apart from the front and rear ones, then remove the poles, allow the tent to drop and remove the other guy ropes. Then unpeg the tent.
Put the bag at one end and fold the tent to just a little smaller than the bag. If the tent has a side door then start folding from the opposite end (to push air out). Keep folding the tent, squishing air out each time and you should end up with a long length of tent just a little narrower than your bag. Starting at the back of the tent roll it up as tightly as you can, rolling towards the front (also to push air out). When you have it rolled, tie it off if it came with ties. Dont try to put it in the bag, put the bag over the tent and pull it around, then zip it up. If it is one of the newer open plan bags then even easier.
That's great,thanks for that.I see what you are saying about a sort of vacuum as we had hell of a job at first trying to lift tent up due to this
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