 Hey everyone, Shaber1000 here today. I've got my new tent hammock here in the box and We're gonna open this up and check it out. Hopefully it's what I can use what I've been wanting well, I have to see so Let's get the box open. Let's check it out Okay guys, so I ordered this as you can see from Amazon and We're gonna open this up The knife my friend Ryan gave me Let's go ahead and open this up See what all's in here. This thing came quick. It came out of Jacksonville, Florida, I do believe and here it is Let me move this out of the way All right It's the night cat Of course, it's made in China but uh It's a hammock tent so you can set it set it out on the ground Or you can hang it in the tree now. I'm doing this in the backyard because I was going to do it out in a camp area But of course, they're all booked up There's at least three in this area that are Free camping now all you got to do is make a reservation and all three the same exact days are booked up I don't get it Well, I do get I know what's going on. It's the kayakers. They're They're reserved in the spots and of course, they're not camping. So that kind of puts a damper on the guys who want to camp So this is gonna be a two-part video tonight what we're gonna do We're gonna set this up in the tent as the tent and then we'll You know sleep in it. We'll see what it what it's like See how easy it is to set up and then tomorrow night. We'll do the the hammock part of it So let's go ahead and open this up. Like I said, it is night cap. This was I Paid like four dollars extra. There'll be a link in the description of this tent but To get it camouflaged and looks like it is so but with shipping tax and The little extra I paid it was like 116 So pretty reasonable, of course, they've got them cheaper But they didn't look that great so They just kind of look cheap, you know, I mean these things are cheap anyway Like this, you know, like sell together 116 bucks. Is it really worth 116 bucks? I doubt it. Is any tent really worth that? No, not my book, but so It's kind of big But I have to get a bigger backpack anyway, see the night cat See there's a cat on there All right, so But it's not very heavy. I forget what the weight is on it. I'll have to put all that in the description, but It's not too much that I can't I can't carry it's not It doesn't feel much heavier than the hammock I have now. It's just bigger so, you know Which I won't have that in In my pack Anymore because I'll be using this. Okay, we've got our guide here Hopefully there's English ones Yeah, what the package contains one carry bag Two aluminum alloy steaks Two guy lines two straps Hammock with mosquito net and buckles One rain fly and Aluminum alloy pole two of them so it I mean this really gives you know, that's pretty good detail there of You know setting it up and everything so but I wanted one because If I decide to hike back in somewhere, I don't know if I'm gonna have the trees to hang hammock or If I take a small tent because I don't want to carry two or if I take a small tent You know there might not be a level enough ground, but there's plenty of trees All right, so let's take this out of here. That might be the rain fly this looks like Main item here There's the poles Feels like the poles and steaks get this untied These are the poles kind of got a bend to them probably because it kind of There's like that across the top Okay, I'm supposed to have two steaks and straps and stuff. So let's keep looking in our Stuff here. Okay Yep, I feel straps in here. It feels like a couple steaks. Let's open this up. All right. Yeah Let's get these little steaks here. They match the they match the poles And Our straps There's one There's one And here's our guidelines Okay, so That's pretty bright They said a lot of guys they want to go all camo. I like to have some brightness with me because You know my health conditions and stuff if I want to be found I Want to be found. You know what? I mean, I'm not doing I'm not into the stealth camping stuff. We've been over that I'm not into that So I Really don't care how stealthy I look. I mean, I don't want something bright purple pink and yellow You know, but I do want something bright if someone you know has to come looking for me You know, I'll be able to be seen. Okay, so what I'm gonna do I'm not sure where I'm gonna set this up. I thought about setting it up behind me there. It's nice and flat Like I said, of course, I'm in my backyard, but also there's a nice Flat spot right over here kind of by the shed. There's a couple trees there. I Don't know. We'll see a guy Caught a coral snake in front of the houses earlier today and He said it was the second one he saw this week and it's it's the Venom's one. So, you know, red touch yellow So I've got a video clip of him picking it up And on my last solo we saw that one out there in the campgrounds So hopefully nothing will be coming in to visit me tonight We just have to see Kind of, you know, I kind of like it over there by them trees I'm not sure. Let me read up on this on this thing. I'm gonna read my little pamphlet here You know, I'm not that kind that just throws the stuff and then You know have to go read it later and look like an idiot Or just throw it to look cool Then off-camera go read it and then act like see we didn't need that. I don't do that I've never sat one of these up like this before. Well, I've never sat one of these up where it's a tent or hammock So, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna read the instructions. So there's no shame in that So and then I'll show you how it gets set up Then we'll go from there stick around guys Okay, guys, so I've got my wireless mic on hopefully that'll help the wind. So this part is the actual hammock tent hammock slash tent itself so Got some nice carabiners 5k in Alright, so we're gonna Set this out here So it looks like I'm not sure which one's the front Let's get it set up. I don't think it matters But let's get these poles in here And we're just going to slide them through. I'll show you more of it here in a minute It just goes right through here And you can use it as a regular hammock too. They call it a three-in-one The night cat. It's a three-in-one now here It's got a hole in it. So They want you to put that in there And this one in here You're supposed to be able to set it on the ground Hopefully you can because if you can't I'm gonna have to return it because it's supposed to be Uh hammock or ground tent. So Now we're just gonna I don't know what you guys are seeing so Now Now let me see Because the instructions Doesn't really tell you anything about how to set it up as a ground tent. It just tells you how to set it up as a hammock so Let me go over the instructions again And see what's going on See if I can figure something out Okay guys so All I did was stake it there and in the back and pulled it really tight That seems to be Okay Now we're going to put the fly on that's where you're supposed to use these pegs is for the fly I don't know how they're coming up And the only instructions they give you is how to hang it so But let's continue on And I'll see if I can figure it out So now Yeah, they don't uh see their snaps down here That's supposed to snap around Your lines And you're supposed to put a guideline out here and a guideline out there to keep the thing from swinging too much But as far as A ground tent Yeah, I made it work But I had to use two of my stakes Um, I think that's Misrepresentation I'm probably going to get a hold of the company and tell them I want, you know Some partial money off this because this is stupid. I mean I'll keep it and try it But If it's indeed also supposed to be A ground tent Then why do they only give you two stakes? You know But anyway, I'm going to go get my bag And these things Are supposed to hold Your flap up And it's like they're sewn way back in there instead of out here So you really got to kind of stretch it to get it to stay there um I don't know We'll just have to see I'll sleep in it tonight and then I'll sleep with it up in the air And we'll see how we like it, but let me go get my sleeping pad And we're going to stick that in there Let me get in this thing Okay, so Some string for my sleeping pad here Now also what I like I do like that You know I don't have to reach clear down there To undo the zippers. I can do them right here and get in and out to where my hammock I have to reach clear down then zip There is hooks in here to hang a light Not a lot of room in here laying it down like this but I mean Does it work as a tent? Yeah But if you're a tall guy, it's not going to work for you. I'm 5'7 And my head's almost clear up at the top And my feet are almost clear down at the bottom um I'm just going to have to use it. I just don't like misrepresentation like that You know because You know, it's a hundred dollars I know some people that's not a lot of money But to me it is a lot of money just to Just to camp in something, you know I mean Our big tent, I'm just taking this mic off our big tent was almost 60 dollars You know and it's for six people See in the floor Well, what I'm calling the floor Very thin so almost like a silk So it wouldn't take much To put a hole in this thing One little root you didn't see or something um so I mean, what am I going to do carry a tarp now I'm carrying two things that I didn't want to do before. You know what I mean um I didn't want to have to carry several different things. I wanted one thing to do, you know, two different purposes Yeah, technically it is a tent But is it supposed to be like this? I don't know Because it even showed them On the website it showed it laying straight on the ground it said Use the boy's a ground tent too See here's the hook should be using monkey's camera for this she's got a super wide angle lens There's the heck there's one down there Hanging down there. I don't know if you can see it right there But See I'm like You know, here's my head There's my feet on five seven um I'm gonna sleep into tonight And uh, see how it goes We'll talk about it more in the morning and then I'll do another video Of using it as a hammock We'll just have to see I don't know. I just don't like misrepresentation because if it was supposed to be like this They would have gave me two more tent poles, you know Or stakes. I should say two more tent stakes. It's got poles in it um You know, I could probably you know pull it tighter maybe but It just doesn't make sense the way I mean, yeah, but technically I can set mine up on the ground. You know what I mean? I mean, I like the looks of it I don't know. I'll be back with you guys. I'm gonna There's some tie-outs like there's one up there There's a tie-out or tie. They're supposed to tie to this pole reach up in there and tie to this pole You know, like if it gets windy or whatever there's several down through there um Let me sleep in it tonight. I'll be back with you guys before I go to sleep It's hot in here, but I'm in florida. It's like 80 degrees out So that ain't got nothing to do with the tent. All right guys um Yeah, it's supposed to be waterproof. It does feel kind of like it's got a waterproof coating on it So it's supposed to be so you're not supposed to have to Waterproof it like I do all my tents We'll have to see y'all have to sleep in it in a rain, but see that's another thing This I can guarantee you is not going to keep Rain out. It's just not going to do it. This this floor is not going to keep rain out I can guarantee you that So if you got some rain running in under you, you're going to get wet, you know so I'll probably if I keep it all waterproof. Well, I'm going to keep it But I just you know, I will get a hold of them and say, you know, this is not as advertised, you know This is ridiculous guys got like a 96% uh rating So I don't know Or the company or whoever You know, I'm sure it's not just a guy But I'm going to get a hold of them Tell them what what, you know If it's supposed to be a ground tent house come, you know, it doesn't come with two two extra Tent pegs You know and there's no instructions To set it up on the ground because like this here. Let me show you like Like this has to be You know, this is a rain fly It's supposed to be hanging down but I Then you got to kind of flip it underneath To get it to go through this thing You would think there would have been a different way. So here's another tie out here I don't know. It's just You know, I do like the looks of it, but I don't know. I'll be back with you guys Before I go to sleep in here. I'm not actually camping. So I'm not going to do any cooking or anything like that so I'm gonna I'll bring you back on when I'm getting ready to lay down for the night See, it's like this little baggie here You know, it's only going to work if it's You know set up as a hammock. So All right guys I'll be back with hang tight and another thing. Where am I going to put my pack? You know, I can hang my pack or whatever underneath when it's in the tree, but You know I don't know if my pack's going to fit underneath there and then Still if I get an under the rain fly it's still going to be Sitting right on the ground And I know once I get a bigger pack even with that pack I got To put it in there with me. It's going to be kind of I don't know guys. It's going to be kind of tight Yeah, see these Are supposed to Come around and they snap on to each other You know, my pack's not going to fit in there It can fit inside inside but With me but and then it's going to kind of be like You know So like that that'll snap under there So yeah We'll just have to see I mean, I do like it Let me sleep in it and if I don't have any problems sleeping in it, you know, I can do something with my pack It's not a deal breaker, but for them to say That's also a ground tent Well, if that's the case really any you can make any hammock a ground tent I mean You just have to make your poles. That's I don't know But also we'll see what it's like as a hammock too when I sleep in it as a hammock Um, I'm kind of kind of excited about that. So I'll be doing that tomorrow night Uh, I might just hike back in there anyway Find me a couple trees back in camp area Find me a couple trees and Hang it up and give it a shot for the night. Okay guys, so It's about 12 45 right now am I was in the house Watching youtube videos and I thought What am I doing? I can watch youtube out here the wi-fi I'm right next to the house so There's a couple things I was rethinking on this That we can talk about like how I need to carry an extra set of pegs I really don't if Because I've seen I watched some youtube videos on this If I would use one of use my straps on the ends just like as if it was a tree and stake it out back here Then I wouldn't need Two pegs Um, so That's what I was thinking now these things here Like I said, I don't like these ties. I just You know When you're ready to tear down and go home and stuff and You know, I'm tying all them um So I watched one that was like two months ago. I watched the video the guy had a clip they had Something like this only had like a plastic clip on it that would clip to these I like that a lot better now I don't know If They had those and did away with them. Maybe the clips were breaking and they went with those Or you know, if this is an older one And they had those and then went with clips. I don't know, but I do like the clips maybe in some felcro Some felcro would be nice on them um but The more i'm looking at this thing and i'm starting to like it even more So yeah, that makes more sense because the guy put up a picture He didn't show but he put up a picture of it looked like In the picture when I paused it It looked like they had straps coming out here. So that's That's a possibility then like I said, I wouldn't have to Then this can just tie around and snap around my strap It makes sense so I could do that too But of course the pegs for me is not a problem because I always carry extra tent pegs Okay, it's 1245 right now. I think because Yeah, my Fitbit is telling me to go to sleep 1246 that's my Fitbit icon So but um, yeah I got old joe's computer in there Oh, I'm gonna watch me some Some youtube that's why I got the extension cord out here um I was also thinking Uh, my main concerns my camera equipment Now for car camping I'll bring a whole bunch of stuff but If if I hike in somewhere I can't bring that stuff or if i'm on the boat I can bring, you know three and four different cameras So For camera equipment just for my batteries and I'll probably carry two cameras maybe three if you count my body cam um I don't have a problem with stuffing it in there with me in case it gets rainy My pack I got to think about my pack if I really really had to I you know It'd be a little cramped, but I can put my pack in there not a big deal Um, but if I can't I can always carry a trash bag with me And put my pack in a trash bag If for some reason I would have to try to stuff it out here under that or something Um, like I said when it's when it's up hanging up in the air I can always hang the pack You know So that's not a big deal Because the more I'm thinking about it the more ideas I'm getting Also, um Let's see, of course It does seem a little short. It's eight foot from Tip to tip it's eight foot. You're not gonna get that inside now if you're hanging it You will it'll stretch and it'll Give you more length and a whole lot more headroom uh I don't mind that at all laying down and stuff It's just if I'm pinned down in A bad thunderstorm rainy storm, you know for three or four hours. I'm not going to be able to set up I'm going to have to lay down the whole time Uh, again not a deal breaker That would be a perfect uh stealth camp tent, but I don't stealth camp so But for those of you that do that'd be perfect for It's very low and also like I said, you get a a lot more headroom When it's hanging in a tree which we're going to do that in the next video Monkey's going to come out and he's going to do kind of a solo. She's going to bring the truck back here in the backyard I'm going to hang the hammock probably over there by the shed between those two Well, you can't really see it, but there's two trees over there I'm going to hang the hammock Um Also, they do make an under quilt for this all by the way before I forget that bottom part is supposed to be waterproof It's kind of like a parachute material, but it's supposed to be waterproof So that's good for when it's on the ground, but they do make and make an under quilt for that Same company also the every video I seen had a different logo on the night cat Had a different logo, so I'm not you know, I'm not going to have to get a hold of the company like I thought um I think as far as improvement wise, you know those ties that there could be something different about them but uh Like our big tents got the fel crow that comes around there And uh, we've had it in 45 50 mile an hour a gust of wind and it's it's never failed um Let me see what else What else was I going to say anyway? Oh They should you know, let you know something about You know in the instructions You know, this is considered a three in one It tells you how to use it just as a regular hammock. You just flip it You don't put the the the poles in You just set it up you flip it over And then you're laying like on the bottom of it And it tells you how to hang it but it doesn't tell you about ground You know how to do it on the ground Which that was confusing me But when I seen that picture of the the that one that looked like it had straps coming out I think that's the way to go I think this is going to be more than One video I'll probably find more things I dislike and some more things I do like like this This here I was thinking I could probably when I enroll that Cut a couple sticks or whatever and I can tie that out For like a little porch And it's 65 degrees and it's breezy beautiful night, but The under quilt Seemed like it was a pretty good pretty good under quilt and also It looked like it was real easy to put on which you know like If I do a january camp out or late december camp out or whatever when it's getting really chilly Yeah, I'll need an under quilt for that thing. So I don't know how much they cost. I'll have to look it up It's not a necessity right now, but also that under quilt would help when it's on the ground like this To keep things from trying to poke through Because you can't see everything, you know Especially if you're hiking in you're not going to have a rake with you to rake everything up look for tree stumps Sometimes you find them after you set up I know I set up a lot of tents, but so far I'm liking it Um I'm liking it more So all right guys, I'm going to get inside of here And I'll kick you on back on one more time when I get inside And I'll show you the light I'm going to use for tonight Like I said, there's a hook up here on this end and a hook up there on that end to Call them lantern hooks, but you're not going to put a lantern in there, but you know a little light Is there room for improvement so far? Yeah, but remember this is just my initial You know, this is the first time I've set it up the first time I'm going to sleep in it So you know, I mean so far You know like the ties that's that's okay, but they will come untied, you know Or they can anyway I should say but um Yeah, so All right, I'll kick your guys back on one more time for I call it a night and then uh And then I'll see you guys in the morning after that And then like I said when we do the the hammock when we do it as a hammock You know when I do that video I'll give my final thoughts on the thing What I like my likes my dislikes, you know, and and you can't get something perfect every time There's always something about something that you're not going to like um But so far yet seems There was guys that said they had it out in the rain. They didn't show it They showed rain drops on it, but they didn't show camping in it in the rain, but they said it didn't get wet. So That's good. Um, I may not have to waterproof that So it's supposed to already be waterproof So I don't know, you know, that's one of them things I'll have to camp in it on purpose in the rain to check that out Make sure it's not leaking. It doesn't leak and all that but Yeah, so far I'm starting to like it even more All right guys hang tight. Okay. So like I said I'll have a lot more room. You'll see once I set it up As a hammock, I'll have a lot more room in here. Um, it it's it's not really it's not bad Um, I brought that wrong light here this Well, I'm not the wrong one. I mean this one kind of hangs down. It should be hanging like that more but um focus But um Yeah, so I think I'm going to turn this computer on And uh, it's right here I got my pop in there wrapped up in that thing. So that way It doesn't sweat and get the tent all wet and I'm thinking there's The leak or something It's not raining but who you know, I mean it's not supposed to but Maybe I'll wake up thinking man. It must rain in the middle of the night So yeah, so far, I mean I'm liking it more. There's more headroom up here than I thought I got some stuff up here Like my phone and cigarettes and stuff like that. So Yeah, all right guys, so I'm going to call it a night. Watch some youtube videos. My battery's getting low on this thing Can't even get through one video but uh These batteries are getting old and they're not sony batteries. They're and they're even they're smaller than sonys, but So anyway guys, so I'll catch you guys in the morning. Good morning guys. Okay, so Uh last night, you know, of course I slept in it and Very warm in there um Did get some cloud cover. I would have just took this Rain fly off, but I did Pull that out stretched it out a little bit more and it turned out I still had almost a About another foot that way another foot that way There's a lot more room in there than I thought so First impressions. I'm digging it I like that thing So tonight what we're going to do is we're going to hang it probably from that tree there over to That tree there and uh We're gonna hang it And see how it does hanging so far. Yeah, I like it Liking it a lot. So yeah, we're gonna want to hang this up tonight Right now. I'm going to go in. I'm going to edit this edit this video for you and get it and get it put up Get some of these leaves out of here Looks like these held up good. I was afraid that we're going to pull out and Fall down because it did get warm but yeah, so Get this side here So yes, well I was talking about last night It's got that velcro I may put a couple little holes in it right there A couple grommets That way I can pull it out and make a porch out of it nice So so far just getting two thumbs up So like I said, we'll hang it Like I said, this is kind of a two-parter so we'll We'll hang it up tonight and then tomorrow When I take it down, I'll give you my final thoughts on it and see And see how it is once we hang it up in the air. So yeah, that's pretty cool So far, I do like it All right guys, thanks for watching. Shea Berry the mytho man legend Stay tuned for part two of this and We'll put it up in the tree Shea Berry the mytho man legend gone for now guys. Bye. Bye. We'll see you in the next one