Thread: Swags stored on roof rack or stick with hike tents???

G'Day Chris.
Mate if your primary concern is security, then buy a lockable steel cable net (like you use to keep people out of your boogie board bag when travelling in SE Asia).
Secure it to one side of your rack and use a 'Python' or similiar coated bike cable to lock it.
Job done.
Dave.

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Hi CJT, I have no experience of swags but the advantage of the tents,apart from already owning them, would seem to be in using them as shelter in rain. I imagine staying for any length of time in wet weather in a swag would become a trial. Also, you can squeeze the occasional visitor into a tent which could be awkward in a swag.Cheers, 130man.

swags are great, as long as you have a good tarp setup.
I've got a self inflating mattress in mine, makes it a lot more compact if rolled up with care.

I love the look of these swags, but you don't get them here. Maybe they aren't so good in the rain...

When I used to do a lot of camping growing up and before having the boys I would always use a swag and carry a small hootchie (little lightweight tarp setup between two trees as a little A cover) with the swag underneath.

Or with a 4wd around slide the swag under neath if it was raining.

I have 2 x Darchie camp Darche Lightweight Camp Shelter Set shelters that are light weight tarps.

I can use one for the swags to go under and the other for the kitchen on longer stays or use the awning on the DII for shorter stays.

A good quality heavy 10' x 12' (3m x 4m) tarp, mattress and woolen blankets, along with a couple of stirrup leathers to hold it together
is the go for a swag. Or alternatively a commercially produced swag.
Either way you can set up camp or break camp in a few minutes.
In wet or dewy weather a cheap poly tarp about 6 metres long chucked over a rope strung out from the bull bar to a tree, along with 2 octopus straps or stretchies off each side to keep it taught. You can roll it up wet without it rotting or going mouldy, then when it wears out just piff it and buy another.


Cheers, Mick