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correct me if im wrong but are you saying in your reply that you knit your longnets by knitting the length then drop down and do the width(the setting hight) ?

 

if so, the next time i knit a 100yrd net (200yrds of netting) i will have to do 16 rows, each with 3600meshs?

 

surely there has to be an easyier way of knitting a long net? :hmm:

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The lenght of a net and width of a net are the same! The hieght of a net and the depth of a net are the same! If you knit 150 meshes to get your lenght,then you knit 15 full meshes or 30 rows to get your hieght or depth, you will have knitted 4500 half meshes or 2250 full meshes.

I hope this helps you a bit MC :big_boss:

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Ok, miss use of words, length,depth, witdh hight.

 

What i was asking is if i wanted a longnet to be 100yrds long(200yrds of net) and to gain this i had to knit 3600 half meshes (1800 full meshs) are you saying you start on the long edge(200yrd edge) and knit 3600 half meshes then once youve done this you drop down and knit the other way, again doing 3600 half meshes. this would then make one row of 1800full meshes. then keep doing the above untill you get the correct number or rows (16) of full meshs to finish the net?

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Use spun nylon or four ply hemp. Make the net with two and a quarter inch bars, ie knot to knot, and make the net twice as long stretched like a rope as the length you want it to be. You then have a very efficient net. I have various nets, from two inch bar to bar to two and a half inch bar to bar, which incidentally was a common size between the wars. It however lets a few smaller ones escape. The advantage was that for a one hundred yard net, you only needed one hundred and forty yards of netting. The net captured the rabbits by sort of snaring them. When working the net, you grabbed the rabbits and not the net as this allowed some to struggle through. The 140 to 100 incidentally is the ratio of a mesh open to a mesh pulled closed 14:10. :thumbs:

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