How to fold a popup tent.

Hi Ed,

Like Fred says below, I don't think mine would 'break its back' either. You must have a special one, like on the demonstration :))

Dave

Two things he doesn't mention.

1 It helps if you always fold it the same way. ie Same corner folded in and fold from same side. Mine folds best when front right corner (standing in front of tent goes in) and then fold with back of tent upwards.

2 When it "breaks it's back" you have to rotate both hands the correct way.
Thumbs on the inside and thumbs go down. that's left hand clockwise and right hand anticlockwise.

G'day Dave,
(I reckon it's a lot harder to try & explain something 'in writing' than it is to actually do it;-)),
But anyway, I reckon it's all in how you pick the thing up...

If you look closely at the 'still' pic, you'll see the bloke's hands way back at the corners, & the left hand being slightly forward (it would appear).. (this is where the 'trick' is, I believe).. Then, when you pick it up, just bring your hands together a few inches, and with luck, you should get that 'droop', as in the clip. after which it should just "fall into place" ;-))

If that fails, just 'wedge' the other (top) end into the ground, and you can kinda 'force it to break it's back'....

Then again, I may have a special one.....

Catch ya later....

;-))

G'day Ed,

Thanks for the tips. I reckon my problem has been trying to do it to the instructions supplied with it, and they are nothing like what is shown in that clip, nor the tips you have given us.

With Mrs Bushwhacker saying 'You blokes never follow the bluddy instructions, and then reading them out to me , step1, step2..... I stopped looking outside the square.

Like the old saying goes, 'if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got', and that's where I was stuck, doing it the 'wrong' way time after time, and struggling.

Thanks to the video clip, and your tips, I am almost looking forward to packing it up on 3rd Jan :))

See ya, Dave

Yeah, me too!! If I had of seen that first I would kept ours instead of giving it away in disgust!! LOL