I think its good to see Drifta working on a budget range of china made products because you can still trust that Luke would have researched the gear and picked the best of the crop. From my time in procurement I can tell you that China made products work on a grading system when it comes to quality, A is the grade is lowest, AA in mid quality and AAA+ is the higher quality gear and its all priced accordingly. Good on Drifta for making a range thats affordable or can be used for those times when you just don't want to take your best gear to a camp event. I like having really good gear but sometimes I don't want to use it when I know its really crappy conditions, so I'm happy to sacrifice something thats not cost me a small fortune. This was a good call by Luke, I don't see any of this as a compromise, to me it's a range , price and quality grade extension of drifta's gear. Last thing, Backing up some of the weaker parts with Aussie made parts like the rope kit is a stroke of brilliance and still getting a boot liner for the table will keep in protected. Nice work Drifta.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Hunter thanks dave : ) this range will compliment and support our brand : ) 👍👍

@Dave_Hunter

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriftaCamping4WD you guys get is right when it comes to listening to the wants and needs of the camping community. The Stockton range is just want we needed and I hope the range grows. fire pits and camp lights next please!

Our 4 chairs turned up yesterday and they are great. Even the kids can fold them up and put them back in the bag 👍👍👍

Great idea. I reckon I'm pretty keen on one of those chairs.

Finally there is a decent quality stretcher on the market. Something solid that isn't going to move around on a big bloke like me. I have something similar from a company that doesn't sell them anymore. This would be great with a swag on top. Well done.

Best part of this vid Luke/Kaito is you still have 90 employees. Good on you to keep moving and evolving. You know a few weeks ago we were washing the truck using a hose with new recently fitted cheap connectors and the nozzle blew off and soaked me. I was swearing my head off cursing its point of origin and my son was laughing and simply said "then stop buying cheap crap". He was of course right annoyingly. We all have the luxury of choice. Here we have a really trusted brand being completely up front about some new market/ products they are trying and you can choose to buy or not. I'll stick with my Snow Peak Chairs and Drifta Canvas products for the time being but if I was in the market for the other stuff I would trust you guys over other cheaper brands for sure.....now to go find some Aussie made brass tap fittings! Cheers.

Great work fellas...keep as much as possible Aussie made. This whole CV event has shown how important it is that we bring back manufacturing onshore. Good on you for pushing forward int such an uncertain future...hopefully we'll be back on the roads and off-roads soon, testing your new lines. Keep 'em coming!

What a great new range of camping gear. You have covered all bases there. Well done 👍

Have you ever thought about adding small pockets at the corners of the stretcher to tuck the corners of the mattress in? It would help keep mattress in place without sliding around.

@grannieannie1371

4 жыл бұрын

That is a brilliant idea

@heftymerv

4 жыл бұрын

a better idea would be to have a pocket with a drawstring at the top and bottom of the underside of the sleeping so that it slides over each end of the the mattress and stretcher, pull on the drawstring to keep it taught. Can't move up and can't move down. Would work will with this type of stretcher by the looks of it.

Good stuff, all those items we would get from any camp store/Aldi etc, but knowing that you had input to them is an absolute bonus cause you go out and use them as we do, onwards and upwards will be ordering soon.... 👍

Keen to see a set-up/fold down video of the chair and stretcher. Keen on both, nice and compact when packed up.

Luke, you are the most honest person to name the horses differently!, your products are top notch no questions and going the lengths to brand imported products different is in my books awesome! Cheers mate

@DriftaCamping4WD

3 жыл бұрын

thank you mate : ) L

Totally agree regards the difficulty in finding a good stretcher, your product looks impressive, best wishes with your new range. From someone living on the Midcoast hats off to you for keeping 90 of our locals employed.

Be great to see these products in Grey/Black too. Picked up a couple of chairs & ordered table in the meantime, thanks.

I love your honesty, I love your effort, I love what you do and how you go about it. Kudos to you. May the Stockton brand do you well!

Love your attention to detail Luke. Great to see you’re rigorously testing before releasing to market vs other companies who simply import and chuck it out in the market with so many issues.

Looks like a great range and they look awesome. Well done 👍🍻

Great to see you back in front of camera Luke

Kaito cam! xD Great work team, can't wait to see the Stockton range up close

The new range of gear looks nice That small coffee table is a great idea

Great bunch of products!!

They look great and fairly compact for packing 👍

So looking forward to getting my chair! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

That stretcher would look good with my Drifta swag. 👍

Great stuff mate👍

Great products. Good luck

I can understand the reasons why manufacturing these particular Drifta products are implemented overseas and why it's better to control your own brand. On a positive note, they are Aussie designed and quality controlled by a well experienced Australian company, with staff that love their personal camping. At least profits are supporting an Aussie company, that still customise and manufacture other Australian made products. That's good enough for me and I'll put my trust in what Drifta has desighned.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

stockton will support the drifta brand and allow us to continue into the future, making aussie products and employing aussies. much easer to send everything to china but that is not our plan :) - kaito

Products looks schmick, funny to hear Luke's big boss man voice at the end 😂

I have to hand it to you 👏 not everything can be made in this country and the fact that you are more than open about the origins of your products is extremely refreshing. 👍 PS. Don't get rid of snow peak / uniflame still want a jikaro table !

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Knight thank u mate . we will always keep uniflame , SP are not easy to deal with 😅😅😅

As you were showing the mattress I was thinking, wonder if it will fit in the bunker, then ✅

The gear looks good Luke. I have to admit after reading your post about looking to open an outlet on the Central Coast & living in Newy, then seeing Kaito mention "Drifta Stockton", I got a little bit too excited, thinking maybe the new premises was going to be at Stockton! But well done on the middle of the road pitch. Always a market for good quality well priced gear. Thanks

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Tony Urquhart west gosford 😀😀👍

Good looking stuff Luke, yes some of your gear is pricey, definitely great products but as you pointed out out of the range of the average Aussie, great news your doing some products to the average punter, looking forward to more products coming, can’t wait for my Thai cooker on back order, cheers Luke & keep up the good work 👍👍👍

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Kudlak thanks : ) picked up the thai cookpots from sydney today 😅😅 just got back, so will ship tomorrow 😀👍

@louiskudlak2256

4 жыл бұрын

Drifta Camping & 4WD cheers thanks a lot 👍

It's a shame you can't get this stuff made here anymore. I appreciate the differentiation between the Aussie and imported gear though, not trying to hide it.

hope it all works for you, that chair looks the goods.

Nice work Drifta....great that you guys have a crack at new gear. Any word on the Stockton Awning yet?

Video Quality is Looking Tops Lately !

@kaitosutton

4 жыл бұрын

😁👍🏼

gee he'd get cranky at times i rekon. great job on the videos mate.

Good video Luke 👍🏿

Looks like more stuff to buy. Must admit I've been looking for a decent sleeping bag and I've been wanting to try a stretcher how ever never found one to be comfortable enough to even buy. So I hope they're in the Brisbane store soon.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

they defiantly will be : ) - kaito

Perfect !! , I could use that tie down kit and my brother in law could use all that gear as a new start out camper 4x4er . Is the tie down kit available yet ? Cost ? , I need the curved spreader bar too but I’ll order both at the same time .

Got 2 chairs on backorder, can't wait to receive them. If you put your name on it Luke, it's gotta be good. Love the new intro, very cool.

Hopefully Australia might get some renewed manufacturing encouragement from govt.. If COVID has show one thing its how we've gone too far with dismantling Aussie industry. Wouldn't it be great to offer quality items that are 100% aussie made.

@maxgermasi3302

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah like they've just advertised. You can't manufacture here as our model has changed to match the rest of the world: earn big spend small and live outside your social class.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

vfast007 we already doing this , we have 90 staff at our gloucester factories, making Australian made products . but we can’t make everything and biggest issue in Australia is getting labour . nobody wants to make stuff here. we just don’t have a labour force.

@deepndopehouse

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriftaCamping4WD have you guys consisted partnering up with a university for developing new innovative products? Newcastle Uni isn't far away and you'll get engineering resources and access to CNC and other machinery that could kickstart a new manufacturing process. Also there could be big incentives (you probably already know this) for putting on trainees and apprentices, which could offset some of your overheads. Keep pushing guys we need leaders like you

If you are willing to put your name on them they must be good products.

What's the difference between these products and all the other similar products on the market other than the Drifta brand? Just wanting benifits of buying your products over the others.

@kaitosutton

4 жыл бұрын

You know that we personally put these products to the test and developed them over the last year with many many changes to make sure they are up to standards. Probably got 4 or 5 prototype chairs in the shed that were no good. This one is great 😁

Well done Luke. I would rather these than Kings or any other such brands. Wish I could afford the Drifta / Uniflame / Snowpeak products but I cannot.

@DriftaCamping4WD

3 жыл бұрын

thanks mate, that's why we here.. also so i can put my input into the products, so many products are not 'just quiet right' , so i have these products just as i want them , something you can't do selling other brands.. also, stock coming out of japan atm is almost non existent, very hard to get stock so very hard to retail like this.. drifta stockton we have capacity and stock, which is great.. : ) L

A stretcher bed like the OZtrail Anywhere Bed Queen would be mint. Maybe a king size?

Any chance you’ll be doing a double stretcher

The big plus that the Oztent Stretcher (King Goanna version) has going for it is that it has cushioning sewn into it and therefore no need for the inflatable mattress. I will proudly support Drifta whenever I can but I don't want to buy a stretcher and also have to buy a mattress. Maybe it is too costly to include that or most people don't want it? I hope they consider making a deluxe version with padding. I also like another commenter's idea of pockets in the corners to hold a mattress in place. BTW - How good is the microphone on that camera at the end? That's insane! What mike are you guys using?

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Matt Halpin sony 😀😀👍

these at the gloucester store thinking about driving up from the coast

Hi Mate, is this new hybrid made by Star Vision? Looks similar to the CX3 Pro. 😁

Any chance you could add a headboard to the stretcher to stop a pillow sliding off the end.

All the best with the new products Luke. I know this is not part of the channel, but I would love to understand why we can't make such things in Australia. I think it is the investment in equipment required to manufacture?

@kaitosutton

4 жыл бұрын

Defiantly gonna do a video on this soon, 90% of people have no idea and comment whatever they like and other take it as the truth. Lot more to it.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Benny Baggins mostly we don’t have the labour force mate . they sending all the kids to university. and aussie labour is the most uncompetitive in the world unfortunately. making cars is high skilled labour, making camp chairs would be low skilled labour. no one wants to do that and if they do the products are not competitive to what Australians are happy to pay . high cost of living , drives up minimum wage, and that forced out the labour market.

@BenMitro

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriftaCamping4WD Thanks Luke. I have heard that before, but now I am more inclined to believe that our high cost of living (and therefore minimum pay expectations) is actually killing our manufacturing industries. I'd imagine that in a large marketplace, like China, the US or Europe it would be viable to invest in automation, reducing dependency on cost of labour. We tend not to have that big market focus and hence we find ourselves with limited prospects for the manufacture of mass produced goods here in Aus, simply because the local market is not big enough to sustain it and world markets are not "our thing". I wonder if that would change if government and venture capitalists actually backed Australian ingenuity and invested in the automation and world marketing of Australian products that would be required for us to have a successful manufacturing sector? Enough rambling and wishing. I genuinely wish you the very best with your business. Drifta is one of the few Australian Businesses actually taking risks, innovating and manufacturing in Australia.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Benny Baggins thx mate . no one more passionate and patriotic then me , 90 staff is a lot , a mix with some imported products will help me pay my ever increasing long service leave entitlements . massive debt increasing every year . if i can’t pay it i lose everything i have except shirt on my back.

@BenMitro

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriftaCamping4WD Gees. Lets hope the new stuff fills some of the gap. Have you touched base with Dick Smith?

Will a arb swag fit on that stretcher ?

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Wilbur i will check : )

@william6815

4 жыл бұрын

Drifta Camping & 4WD cheers

just a thought how about a pouch at the head end of the sleeping bag to keep the pillow located

Hi will a ARB dome swag fit on the stretcher

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Bojan Aleksic we will have to try it 😅😅

@boy2424100

4 жыл бұрын

Can you please confirm if the ARB dome swag fits and I will happy to buy many thanks

@boy2424100

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks for the reply ill be waiting many thanks

Luke how many kilos does the stretcher take

With so many products and accessories I hope it’s not just COVID, that’s falling behind demand... so many to be “ out of stock” when I’ve been going online recently and frustrated because not available. Great company, great products but...

@DriftaCamping4WD

3 жыл бұрын

hi Dave, are you talking canvas ?? our output is higher than ever, but demand is growing all the time.. most things we have good stock of.. L

Pity I already have an OZ tent stretcher

Have you thought of us left handed people when we are looking at camp chairs ..left table

Like it mate. At the end of the day Japanese products aren’t made here either

hes like an outback Elon musk, love their products though got a bunch of them

There are STILL companies in Australia that can repetition bend and form thin wall tube (ally, steel). Trouble is Aussies are not that great at promoting themselves or buying local.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

we are pretty good at promoting ourself :)

@lindsaybrown7357

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriftaCamping4WD I don't dispute that. I've spent 35 years of my life providing industrial electrical service to companies that made things here, but the local economy doesn't care about supporting them and too many of them have shut up shop. The big box stores will copy their designs and get them cheaply made in China. No body cares, as long as they can buy it for peanuts, that's all that matters. Unfortunately they're selling the next generations work choices down the drain. Now we see ourselves in a trade stoush with China where they are placing tariffs on beef and barley and like little lap dogs, we'll roll over and wag our tails because we are totally dependant on them.

As a 6' tall guy, thanks for making a camp stretcher longer than 180cm! It's hard to tell from the photos, are there bars across the short ends of the stretcher? Or are we actually able to stretch out across the full length of the stretcher without hitting our head on a crossbar?

Such a shame you have to go overseas for so many products. Even worse that are sourcing from China. It leaves with no options. Guess I'll have to keep searching for US, Japanese or European brands, and maybe from Taiwan. We have to stop buying stuff from countries that seek to harm us.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Garry Graham we sell a lot of japanese products . and a lot of thai products . and a lot of australian products . every purchase u make is your choice

@garrygraham7901

4 жыл бұрын

@@DriftaCamping4WD I am not bagging you. I will continue buying your Aussie made stuff. I applaud your local manufacturing. We just need to step away from our reliance on China. Somebody needs to take a stand somewhere and say enough is enough. At least source from democracies over dictatorships if we can't be bothered to make the stuff in Australia.

I hope you guys don’t loose your focus on Australian materials, manufacturing and jobs by the lure of cheap crap rebranded. There are people out there prepared to pay a premium for locally produced products and it would be a shame to see your brand diluted. I have been a regular Drifta customer for a few years and I only discovered you guys after watching Buck’s clips, so maybe better marketing would help, Luke

@DriftaCamping4WD

3 жыл бұрын

we have 110 staff atm.. making aussie stuff.. tbh i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.. i'm doing it, but it's no fun.. it's just stress galore, and an easy way to work your whole life and then go broke trying.. that's the reality.. i wouldn't advise anyone doing it.. L

China mmmm na mate no more China for me I’d rather pay double then give those grubs a cent

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

cold gold kb trade is reciprocal, keep in mind . we export many of our products there too. it’s about balance . yes the ccp are evil mf but the people are good people. things are changing .

@boofy081965

4 жыл бұрын

Yep agree no more china crap for us after what had happen :(

@scottbrown946

4 жыл бұрын

Why not get it made in Thailand then. Thais are wonderful people and an ally of Australia

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottbrown946 we are trying, we are getting made items in thailand.. large diameter rope, some soft shackles, cockpots and grill nets, bbq boxes, some of our drifta leg sets, YKK zipper, so doing what we can.. trying to get some bags sewn there , from Aus canvas.. but , reality is, no one has capabilities like china. thai people and country is awesome, but they are not setup like china.. to mass produce you need massive factories and massive machinery.. thailand just doesn't have that.. we are working also with taiwan, japan, thailand and china for our stockton range, not just china.. i'd love to get more made in thailand, we are trying, but yeah they can't make everything, same as we can't make everything.. : ) L

May as well buy kings or kickass same stuff

Those chairs cost $130 each!!!!!

@alishabab3

2 жыл бұрын

your buying the brand name not where its made

I hope they’re not made in China.

@alishabab3

2 жыл бұрын

80% are.. most of supex is chinese manufactured so if supex gave contacts it be china

Nup Chinese, you’ve lost me mate sorry

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

Who makes chairs in aus then ? we don't and we can't, so either import them or don't sell the most basic piece of camping equipment, a camp chair. - kaito

Aussie company made CHINA yeh nah.

Lost me with China.

@DriftaCamping4WD

4 жыл бұрын

all explained in the video mate, if your not happy with it, buy the drifta range which is aussie made products, drifta stockton is to show its imported, we aren't trying to hide anything like most would - kaito

@vijgai3

3 жыл бұрын

Go ahead and buy the Drifta range or Uniflame. Not everyone has the $$$ lying around to afford those. Made in China is not bad as long as there is proper quality control.