mole catcher 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 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? Quote Link to post
whitby rich 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 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 Quote Link to post
OldTrapCollector 376 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 surely there has to be an easier way of knitting a long net? Leave him to it MC - he obviously knows what he's doing I'm just off to start a 100 yard net with 200 yards of netting, I should finish the first row by Saturday . . . OTC Quote Link to post
mole catcher 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 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? Quote Link to post
whitby rich 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 If you knit a longnet ,100 yrds for example,and 15 meshes down,which ever way you do this your still knitting the same amount of meshes. Hope this helpsMC. And yes OTC i do know what im talking about, do you? Quote Link to post
mole catcher 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 heres one i made earlier, thinking about it i dont suppose it maters how you make it, just some methods must be easier than others Quote Link to post
whitby rich 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 So your making a square meshed longnet is that delibrate. or just how it ended up. Quote Link to post
mole catcher 1 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 its not square meshed, perhaps it was the picture that makes it look square meshed. knitting a square mesh netis totaly differant in how you start and finish it Quote Link to post
woodman 131 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 well lads this is getting like the WI,less talk on knitting,more on catching,it dont matter if you use a perfect made longnet or onion sack as long as it catches.all the best Quote Link to post
OldTrapCollector 376 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 So your making a square meshed longnet is that delibrate.or just how it ended up. And yes OTC i do know what im talking about, do you? Really?? Perhaps I am just too underqualified to comment. Good luck with your net making. OTC Quote Link to post
borderboy 80 Posted September 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 (edited) Got myself some twine now... 1.5kgs of spun poly... how many meshes wide should i make it? 16? with a 2 1/8" mesh board? Thanks for the help so far.... BorderBoy Edited September 28, 2007 by borderboy Quote Link to post
ianrob 2 Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 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. Quote Link to post
borderboy 80 Posted November 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2007 I'm a 1/5th of the way through lol YIS BorderBoy Quote Link to post
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