Net Making

[billy_wizz 2]

Hi i have just started to make some more nets and the guy who showed me how to do them always made his 18 meshes wide! But looking round a few shows most i have seen have been 15 meshes wide and some cheep ones as low as 12 meshes! I was wondering how wide other people make there nets and weather there where specific reasons for there choice or was it just because it was how they where taught?

[Leeview 792]

Hi i have just started to make some more nets and the guy who showed me how to do them always made his 18 meshes wide! But looking round a few shows most i have seen have been 15 meshes wide and some cheep ones as low as 12 meshes! I was wondering how wide other people make there nets and weather there where specific reasons for there choice or was it just because it was how they where taught?

I make mine 18meshes widex 23long because you cant buy them that size at shows why make something you can buy at shows? some are ok others a waste of time and money

Remember "You can put a big net over a little hole but you cant put a little net over a big hole"

Y.I.S Leeview

[comanche 3,301]

Hi i have just started to make some more nets and the guy who showed me how to do them always made his 18 meshes wide! But looking round a few shows most i have seen have been 15 meshes wide and some cheep ones as low as 12 meshes! I was wondering how wide other people make there nets and weather there where specific reasons for there choice or was it just because it was how they where taught?

I make mine 18meshes widex 23long because you cant buy them that size at shows why make something you can buy at shows? some are ok others a waste of time and money

Remember "You can put a big net over a little hole but you cant put a little net over a big hole"

Y.I.S Leeview

I tend to go for 18 meshes x20-22-similar to Leeview but 15 wide x18 long is a pretty standard size .

It's worth remembering that a really big net requires a rabbit to be travelling quite fast as it hits or the net will not be pulled fully closed . It also needs more space to allow the drawstring to be pulled to its full extent .

With this in mind I have few nets that are smaller than standard that are quite usefull for setting in tight places such as in the middle of black-thorn hedges .

[The one 8,598]

I make mine 20 meshes wide and they cover most holes . You can always have extra bag in the net but you cant add it if you need too out in the field

[ferreterni 29]

I do mine shaped starting at 10 at the ring and going out to 18 normally. But can see the use of having some 16 mesh nets too. Both points above about a small net and a big hole, and the speed of the rabbit make a lot of sense. Once you have made a few yourself, and you know what burys you have and what ground etc, you'll know what to make to suit you specifically. ALways handy to have some bigger and some smaller nets too.

[TOMO 29,558]

the most important part about nets, is not the size, or type of material, its HOW ITS SET

 

i make mine 16 wide by 22 but use a 2 1/4 mesh. i have one or 2 old nets 20 years pluss old , that are 16 mesh LONG about 2 and a half feet . they still catch so long as its set right.

[whin 463]

always like a net with bagging at least 3 foot long and some 4 , 10 down to 18 and then back to ten all nets ive made are bigger meshed than long net mateiral even 30 years ago the were bigger only nets ive saw 2 inch shop bought nets ,hate small mesh nets rabbits like salmos bounce of them

[whin 463]

and setting them is not a problem if you have a good dog or two ,when we were dogless as kids with ferrets we used to take time netting in the last 25 years with a dog or two no need to worry they are not going far lol , but if you aint got a dog take time and set them as a hole looks useing the run as the part with the net on and some times when its bushy setting nets on the runs like snares all the best

[billy_wizz 2]

Hi i was just wondering how you make shaped nets?

[Leeview 792]

I start off putting 8 meshes onto the ring, next row make 2 meshes on the first and last meshes. now you have 10 meshes knit onto each mesh in the third row, next row(4th) make 2 meshes on the first and last meshes,you now have 12 meshes knit onto each in the fifth row, next row(6th) make 2 meshes on the first and last meshes and your up to 14 carry on until the 10th row and you should have 18 meshes, I then knit 3 rows of 18 meshes at the start of the 14th row pick up 2meshes and make one mesh, the same with the last two on the row,you now have 16 meshes, knit one mesh onto each of these, next row catch up two meshes and make into one mesh repeat at the end of the row and carry on until your back down to 8meshes and then knit them onto the ring

Others may increase at the first/last mesh on each row and decrease the same way only way to find out which suits you is to try it

Y.I.S Leeview

[billy_wizz 2]

Sounds so easy seeing it written down but couldn't work it out lol! so what are the advantages/disadvantages to shaped nets?

[Leeview 792]

Sounds so easy seeing it written down but couldn't work it out lol! so what are the advantages/disadvantages to shaped nets?

Personally in 50yrs of ferreting I've yet to net a rabbit with its head through a first row mesh so dont see the need to have 16-18 meshes on the ring.

Believe me its easier to do than writing all that down

Y.I.S Leeview

[ferreterni 29]

From myself, i found that having 16/18 meshes of heavy twine on the ring was to much, you don't need it as long as the net has enough belly in the middle to purse and hold the rabbit. A lot of twine around the ring makes it harder to set the ring into the ground if thats how you set them, plus more net there is the more to tangle, even heavy twines will pick up the odd stick etc I find the shaped nets easier to set, as you put the first few meshes down the bury anyway you have the full width at the bulk of the burrow mouth anyway too. if that make sense.

 

Also shaping them is more economical on your twine your saving a lot of twine by shaping.

 

Best way is too make some and then try them, you will find what suits you soon enough, and if you can knit your own you can always knock up exactly what you need.

[ferreterni 29]

Sounds so easy seeing it written down but couldn't work it out lol! so what are the advantages/disadvantages to shaped nets?

 

 

pm me if you want more help to get it sorted, will do my best to help you. If you can make a net you can shape them.

[TOMO 29,558]

i start at 10 mesh on the ring, and add just one mesh on the end of each row very simple.

 

then take off one mesh each row on the way down