 Well howdy and welcome back to the channel everybody. I've got something different and special for you today I've been talking about the camping did a little trout fishing got turnt on to the camping scene and I wanted to do an Unboxing of the truck camping accessories that I've gone out research and I've acquired today's video is not sponsored by anybody But if you guys want to support the channel, please visit the merch store and check out the make evercast County shirts The sweatshirts all the other stuff we got going on over there help support the channel and I appreciate you guys So I got some of the stuff in my hand right here and some of the stuff is outside But we're gonna go through it I'm gonna give my opinions on it why I got it and how I think it's going to help me through this fishing and hunting and Camping season and maybe along the way one of you guys will see something that you like and it will help you on Your journey as well, and that's what it's all about. All right, let's get into it It's probably appropriate to start off with the biggest thing and that is the tent. I ordered a Kodiak canvas tent I slept in a Kodiak canvas tent a few weeks ago And it was so much more different than anything I'd ever camped in I'm used to camping in like the little Nylon feeling tents, you know and then it gets moist in there, and then it's uncomfortable So I've never had a big tent first of all and then one that's that canvas material like a really tough material Think about when when people go elk hunting and they set up camp like out in the mountains for weeks at a time This is what we're talking about. I would pick it up and show it to you right now, but it's 50 kilograms It took me a couple of failed attempts to get it back here on the back porch from the front porch The delivery man was some sort of Superman He threw it over his shoulder and made it look easy But for the sake of YouTube and you guys probably want to see that I'm gonna attempt it once more Hopefully my back holds Well, I'm not gonna attempt to pick this thing up again. I just moved it once more Get on a nice flat surface up here or hogs rooting in the background Anyway, let's open this baby up on the ground right here Forget the name of the website. But anyway when I ordered it, I got a free Ground harp the awning is pretty important if you want to do any cooking or any, you know extra curricular Activities outside of the tent, which of course you're gonna be cooking, you know You want to rig up your your tackle, you know prep hunting gear and stuff like that and not get rained on and you know It's hot, you know do it in the shade or whatever That's what I got on this this deal with the tent now. It was pretty pricey. This tent was around 700 bucks I figured it's something that I can use for a long long time and They also offer a lifetime Limited lifetime warranty on these things. So pretty good. They back the product. I definitely believe in getting good stuff that lasts a long time I think it just works out better in the long run. So let's open this bad boy up just free all the stuff online everyone's really pleased with them and They typically hold up to some pretty harsh conditions Some serious cameras. I guess it goes in that thing. How am I supposed to get this thing in the truck? My gosh, I'm camping alone or something. Here's one thing here. Okay. Well, it's not too bad when you break it up This is 12 by 9 Much assembly is required. I guess I better take a gander at this little book here and Let's put a little time-lapse on throw it together Do by itself. I think that's actually supposed to be a two-person setup my other couple people were doing mommy things and Think out on a walk That's okay. I figured out a way I used rope. I replaced you with rope And I'm glad that I could be replaced by rope Man one day we're all gonna be camping in here So it's important to learn how to set this thing up. You weren't here. So you know what that means I'm gonna be by myself And you're gonna be sipping your coffee or something. I'll probably be walking around with Emmy Showing all the leads and yeah, you enjoy the nature why old dad breaks his back Let's take a tour of the outside so this is the 12 by 9 comes with this awning. This is actually the side. I didn't set that up these poles do some They're sturdy. Let me tell you they're they're sturdy, but wow Took some effort to get them in and this outside material is is that canvas material Now I got to do something here in just a minute the instructions say you're supposed to water the tent Water the tent. Yeah, it's water the tent. No, it shrinks actually It shrinks the canvas material. So it makes it tighter and waterproof. I know seems weird make something waterproof You'll water it But anyway, that's what the instructions said to do. So that's what I'm gonna do. Check out the digs. Check out the inside It smells good. It smells good. Well good. It smells very plastic Maybe she shouldn't be Plasticy. Look we can stand up. We can have a party in here. The lighting is excellent in here We can have a tent part. It's have a tent party. I don't need nobody However that thing goes all these are closed right now. You can open these up And yeah, you can open up the windows the zippers are supposedly good Supposedly nice zippers What do you think about that This makes me excited to go camping. Yeah, I mean look this is huge You put like a nice little carpet rug in here You can actually yeah, you could you could do that and put cots Normally the awning and closed awning is a hundred dollars, but I got it for 40 bucks Ordering it from that website. I had a little deal going I'm not gonna set that up because that's probably gonna take another Overlong that time lapse was but I'm gonna water this part. I'm gonna enclose it to get it soaked Uh, and then we're gonna let this thing dry out and then it should be ready to camp I'm going to be showing you guys the other stuff as well. It's gonna go in here I'm basically setting up the truck camping scenario for you But I'm pleased with the tent don't like the setup how hard it is But if you're by yourself and you got rope anything's possible. I think that's written in some outdoor book somewhere Like I said the other day in the video where uh me and robert fishing and we're at that little cabin You know right here is my right. Here's the boat. This is the boat parking I'm a little backstop right here that looks similar to like a parks park and recreation Backstop and then I got my tent right here. I mean, this is this is how much I love the outdoors This is literally childhood memories Like just at at the house I mean I could live in there. I could let stuff and and me just hang out in there I could just live out here. I'm perfectly happy So uh last year I got a sleeping bag made by a company called Teton Uh, it seemed like they make pretty good stuff So I decided to try out a few more of their things. I'm deciding out on the sleeping bag yet to not sweat in that thing Uh, it's a zero degree bag, but anyways, it's a huge it's really big bags to xxl I like to move around a lot when I'm sleeping. You know, who likes to be just zipped up in the cocoon This is the outfitter xxl cot You know a cot is such a I have such a bad taste in my mouth the word cot just from You know when you're a kid and you go take a nap at school. They're like, you know that cot I gotta take a nap drink your juice I hate to get it on the cot drink my apple juice and take it a nap All I want to do is play This has a 600 pound capacity if I ever get to 600 pounds god help me Uh, I'm definitely not getting on a bass boat. So I don't think we're getting there, but just a quick Easy setup here a little bit easier than the tent these two poles put them on the ends Sliding through this probably think I'm Having some sort of weird party in here Okay, I got it LFD is here Just at the perfect time Let's say this thing can hold Up to 600 pounds. I know you're not near that but Just have I know you've slept on some cots in your life, but I want to I want to see what you think about this one right here. I don't know about this It's an xxl I mean if you're at fish camp, you know, this is nice That'll do it's like slipping on a trampoline It was kind of hard to set up though. It took it took uh, both of us stretching it out. So Again, one person camping truck camping A little bit difficult parents getting the boat covered action in dad dad had to come take a peek at the The fx the beast Mom had to come take a peek at baby Yeah, we all know we'll be dangling in at some point this year. Well, I hope so it's like nascar on water Nascar water. That's a good analogy dad got our cop set up Massive I love this. It was a little difficult to set up, but uh, I think I could do it. I'm gonna stretch it out You know a couple of sleeps on it and it'll be fine Now I've made the mistake many times of not having A good pillow when I'm out or not having a pillow at all I take some sweatshirts or something out of my bag and I stuff them behind my head not the same So I got one of these pillows. This is a uh, a real packable Pillow and keep in mind. This is this is not something that I'm just going backpacking with This is for truck the truck camping So I don't it doesn't have to be really light the pillow is made by thermo rest It's got like a a foam material in it Some sort of like memory foam And it's it's little pieces of it So it packs up and then you just kind of fluff it and this is the large version And then there you go now the pad Is also important and so I've got a xxl pad Let's open this up Oh, yeah Now I check this one out on the internets and I really liked the simplicity of it Basically just uh strap it in two straps and then roll it out. So Without further ado, let's do that Buckle Buckle I'm assuming the way this works There's a deal on the end That goes up under here Tuck that up under there Little deals on the corners you attach these ones on the end And it's not going anywhere. This is it right here. This is it fish camp Oh, I'm sleeping in comfort, baby This is so comfortable. I'm a side sleeper So that's real important to me. I can just roll over have a little blanket over me Okay, that's blanket. Oh, yeah, I'm good. I'm good with this pillow. Make sure to get the large pillow good to go Except for when it gets cold So I went out and I got me a propane heater A little static electricity on this bad boy. Be careful around the propane This right here. I've already unboxed it because I got really cold the other day and I turned it on Probably a lot of you ice fishermen are already familiar with this thing But this is uh, mr. Heater portable buddy And they make one more bigger than this that has two heat panels on it. I got a hose adapter Because your regular little Coleman Um propane it's only lasts like Four or five hours and when you're camping for multiple days And you know, you're sleeping and you don't want your heater to go out You hook it up to a 20 pound propane tank use one of these hoses Keep your tank outside Run it in turn the heater on you'd be surprised how hot it will stay Now I know this from the last time I went trout trout fishing camping with my buddy lance Had a double one setup couldn't even turn on the other heat the other heat panel It was too hot and it was actually uh around the freezing temperatures that night So this will be perfect for most of the places I go and plus I'm gonna be off the ground that cold Transverse through the ground into your uh, whatever your sleeping pad is and your sleeping bag and everything like that So being off the ground helps plus the heat rises. You're you're just in the mix So that is perfect right there portable buddy and I've got this deal that I showed you guys in the other video, but this is really cool One of you guys sent this in looks like a deer feeder battery, but it's even bigger with a circuit board in it Fuses and it's all wired up to help you charge Two usb slots. It's got a light on it. It's got a 12 volt Car battery adapter, you know, that's like your outlet of the tent come in here. You plug in your stuff Good to go. So I may have to do something a little bit bigger than that if I'm going for a long time Where I need to charge like a lot of batteries and different kinds of camera gear, but this is set up Perfect for right now. Oh, one other thing for the tent Keep yourself organized, especially for a video man like myself I've got a little Sad unit here. So you're coming in from filming fishing hunting and doing all that stuff in here at night And you got to stay organized So I got this little deal. This was a cheap little add-on to the cot So you just velcro that puppy on and then you got space to put your phone, you know batteries toothbrush All your, you know, whatever whatever you're doing I've still got to soak the outside of the tent. So we need to do that and I've got a couple more things That will enhance the experience for when you wake up in the morning You know, it's about the most Now they were Coleman already had and this is a classic It's cooked many of hot dogs other things at camp, but what I'm going to use it for Most other things is making coffee with a purgulator Purgulator is just fun to say this is from bozeman coffee stainless steel nine cup Uh, colette coletti. Maybe it's the it's actually the name Uh talks about some Italian immigrants Uh, Italians know their coffee and I'm going to guess people from bozeman know their coffee It's really cold up there. It's got a youtube video deal on it. So it shows you how to do it come with filters That's good. That's what happens for y'all that are unfamiliar with a purgulator to make a coffee You know, essentially a coffee maker it just drips hot water over the beans the grinds and then That's how you get The coffee So what happens with this guy? Is when the water boils It goes up to the top the water goes up to the top because it's basically boiling It's trying to get out, but then it hits the cap. It's this little guy here That's how you know, it's perking right there and then it works down Into the grind so everything's happening at once. You don't have your water separate From the coffee. It's underneath it comes up and then goes down all in the same unit One of something that was strong and simple that didn't have plastic on it because i'm putting a flame to it I don't want anything to melt. So this has got a wood handle. This is where you put your coffee You actually don't even need a filter if you if you grind your coffee a little bit more coarse That's for a whole another video But if you're just taking regular folders or whatever i'm taking delicious free range And I grind that down To about medium fine. We're gonna put a filter on it and then put this on there and then We're good to go. So we're gonna get this popping right how that works There we go Probably want to do this before you get the flame going just a cautionary tail It's another really cool thing I got it's at home. I use this at home. This is a gator I don't know maybe a gator or something, but I go ahead and get grind my coffee Then I put it in here It keeps it fresh Do two scoops for the purposes of this video Airlock it's good to go tough unit I like that that product right there back in there Close the lid when that starts boiling comes up the top goes over the beans and then we got coffee, baby All right, looks like that is ready Oh, yeah handle is not hot. That's good That's important give ourselves a pour Yes, sir I can even see the oils and the coffee when you get a good coffee. It's got the oils Rude right the thing is those grinds they tend to come up on the top So if you let it just settle for a while before you pour it you don't get as many grinds in your brew In some ways that's better than your traditional coffee maker. It's almost like using a french press, you know You get more of the flavor And that is it y'all I got the whole layout Showed you all all the gear that I'm going to be using this year I will leave links down below if you guys are curious about any of these things want to get your hands on them Again, this video is not sponsored by anybody. So this is just my My honest opinion. This is what I thought would work Now I got to finish water in the tent. I got to let it dry overnight So the canvas material will tighten up and be waterproof they say Forever you only have to do that one time y'all already know what to do subscribe right here to the channel So you don't miss a single video especially using all this stuff out the great outdoors and you know what? This thing doubles as a nice little sweet in the backyard just in case I get myself in trouble on the inside Something I call it a Luxury doghouse. I love you guys. Thanks for being here And I'll see you on the next