2 Oz Tents joined

I own a RV5, but have never joined it with another, however I have bought both the sides as well as front panel and all you have to do is mate-up the zippers and pull, couple more poles, couple more ropes & pegs.It takes more time putting accessories but you do it a few times and get into a system
Just make sure you buy the proper joining panels and it will be a simple job that should take no more than 10 mins for both tents depending on many pegs & ropes you feel you need.
If I'm only stopping for a sleep and its not windy I don't use any, Cant use front awning however if your only there to sleep you wont need it anyway.
Shane

Hi

we've got two RV3's and joined them together the other week to see how we'd go...after a bit of problem solving it took about 15 mins..but I would imagine it would get quicker the more we did it. Fantastic amount of room in the complete set up..

We have a trakshak camper trailer also, though we are going to sell that and downsize to a hard floor camper for us and we'll take one oz tent with us for the kids on longer trips..but for short trips we decided that the two tent set up would be the best option. After using an Oz tent we were sold on how fast they were to set up. We looked at getting the new RV5 which is the biggest one..but after looking at the size of an RV3 and weighing up the options we decided that getting two tents was the better option as it gave us more flexibility..and we weren't all shoved into one tent. By joining the two together we've got one tent, the kids - aged 6 & 8 have got one and there's quite a large area in the middle.

As long as you can transport the Oz tents I reckon they're the way to go.

Lyn

Just my 2 penneth-my wife and I used to take 2 tents away with us; a 2 roomed for long stays and a 2 person dome for o’night. We decided it was just too hard lugging the 2 and bought an el cheapo ($69) 3 person tent. We find that with a large ground sheet (we always use one) it is sufficient for short and long stays. We leave the fridge and AGM battery in the car now – we used to take it out and put in the tent. We just position the car alongside the tent and run the power through to it from the car. But we cook on the tailgate so having the fridge in the back of the car is fine. If the flies are bad we get everything set up ready for the night – we still use a queen size air mattress. I put a sheet of ‘lino’ down in the tent (makes it virtually impossible to have a prickle come through the floor-it’s queen size but cut down the center for easy packing) and then an old blanket over that- it gives us some protection from the cold ground and it’s nice under foot. Then the chairs and card table go in. We can then prepare our food ‘fly free’ after having a read and a fizzy drink. We either eat in the fly-free tent or outside if the sun’s going down. Of course if it’s a fly free environment the chairs and table go outside the tent for the evening. After dinner the table and chairs come out and I blow up the air bed ready for the lie down.

If we are at a place for a few days, I still let the air bed down so we can escape from the insects inside the tent during the day if we’re there. It doesn’t take many minutes to blow it up at night and I’ve got plenty of battery power to do it.
If it’s a balmy night we dont bother to put the fly over the tent – you don’t have to. I rarely peg out the guy ropes – only if the wind picks up of course. The fly has rubber rings at the corners so I just hook them under the corners of the inner tent-no pegs needed.
Sounds a lot of trouble but it’s not really and for $69 and a bit of organisation we find this set up is flexible enough for quick over- nights and 3 day stays.

Sorry this is a bit long winded!

Happy days
Geo

Gday

We have 2 RV3's and our kids (12 and 10) use one and wife and I use the other.

For quick stays we just put them close to each other and that's it. For longer stays we connect them together as you mention with sides and the gutter piece between them and it is still less than 15mins.

More often than not we put the sides on our tent and butt the kids one up against it. This gives us privacy to change in the middle etc but without the large footprint of the whole deal. Pic is in my gallery.

cheers
John

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