Netting For Rats

[coneykenny 98]

Trying to gather information on making my own long net for rats lads, friends of mine do a lot of ratting with ferrets and terriers and have asked me about a net for the job. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kenny

[lifelong cumbrian 1,793]

Saw a dvd with a man on with pat/whippets ratting he was using a old tennis net.

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Old boy a few doors down knocking on 88, mentioned him using them years ago, said they were handy for ferreting road sides on your own as they kept the the ferrets off the road. I mentioned it to some one and they poo poo`d it for some reason or another, I cant remember what it was but it seemed pretty valid at the time. Sounds great, but I wouldnt want to knit one,the amount of rows an you would need to make a yard up..

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Fruit netting kenny

[The one 8,398]

A roll of quarter inch wire mesh

[Mr Wilkes 2,915]

A couple for sale on eBay.

[terryd 8,053]

if just a barrier scaffold netting ?

[Chicken_man 1,651]

Bridport nets, sell rat long nets. Don't know what they are like though.

Atb

[perthshire keeper 1,237]

well i would use a babminton net for the size but use it as a trammel! maybe with 6 inch outers? going by the lack of neck on a rat their not going to ball up well are they? but that said i wouldnt want to take a pissy rat out of a trammel net eather!

[coneykenny 98]

Thanks lad's for the feedback. I'm going to take a trip to killybegs net makers, I'm thinking 50yds of 1" mesh hung at 25 yds. How many meshes deep do you think lads. I'm thinking of adding a leaded footline?

[fireman 10,774]

Why the feck would anyone want to long net a rat?,ok have something to hold it up a while for a dog to catch it,mind you i would love to see someone extracting a live rat from one .We use small gauge chicken wire aprox 10 inches high and we don't get many escapes

[Tiercel 6,986]

Why the feck would anyone want to long net a rat?,ok have something to hold it up a while for a dog to catch it,mind you i would love to see someone extracting a live rat from one .We use small gauge chicken wire aprox 10 inches high and we don't get many escapes

Funnily enough when I seen the topic title it was that thread I first thought of.

 

TC

[fireman 10,774]

It'd take far to long to take a net caught rat out and you just don't have that time if there bolting out in numbers,all you need is something to just hold the rats up for a second or two and then the dogs have a chance at them,.Without it they catch but a lot will get away and we very rarely loose more than 1/2 dozen when threshing and a lot of that is down to that little fence,without it the final bags would be so much less than they are ..

Do you see a bit of pipe near the fence we also put that down for when a lot bolt at once and a few willl get inside it,again this just gives the dogs a extra chance as once they've cleared up the ones out in the open we then tip up the pipe and it just works for us doing it this way ..

[fluff 409]

best way fireman fech making rat nets years ago when we ferreted hedge rows for rats we would get bits of wood old bags anything to give the dog a chance , old trawl nets work to ,cut to maybe 15 inch deep by however long you need them, as its stiff couralene ,and peg bamboo canes in or anything handy ,its just a blocker

[fireman 10,774]

I know it sounds very Brian Plummer but i've just put a house brick on a rat run before many a time and a rat has just ran into it giving the dog a chance to grab it and like you say it don't need to be posh to stop a rat ,were out this weekend comming on some cover crops and a few bits to block a run or two will be comming with us....