What Net ?

[patterdale 675]

Hi people, firstly please forgive my ignorance. My son is having a this years ferret kit and obviously won't be ready for work until next year.Its been awhile since I been ferreting and have always used purse nets.We have no dogs and have thought about using different nets to surround the buries/warrens/bushes.What net do we need to catch the rabbits in without a dog?long net,stop net or trammel net?

[The one 8,597]

Do you know what the guys in your locastion use as I would look at getting the same stuff

[patterdale 675]

Well to be honest most people locally use purse nets,but there isn't much abundance of rabbits locally, and most of my permissions are just over the border. So can anyone explain the difference between the nets?

[Tiercel 6,986]

A long net typically over 20 yards long.

 

 

A stop net usually between 5 and 15 yards long.

 

 

 

A trammel net with three walls, the large mesh outer walls create the pockets.

 

 

 

And just to confuse you some more a net with pockets that does not have outer walls.

 

 

 

 

TC

[TOMO 29,476]

Just get some purse nets to start,,you have used them befor,,,so no what your doing,,

[patterdale 675]

A long net typically over 20 yards long.

 

 

A stop net usually between 5 and 15 yards long.

 

 

 

A trammel net with three walls, the large mesh outer walls create the pockets.

 

 

 

And just to confuse you some more a net with pockets that does not have outer walls.

 

 

 

 

TC

Great reply TC but sadly none no wiser?Which one would we use bearing in mind no dogs to help us catch!

[patterdale 675]

Dont need a dog pal

That was a quick reply!!

So which ones the best please?

[patterdale 675]

Trammel net it is then

[torchey 1,328]

I would go with a quickset , youll be spending a lot of time pulling bits out of the tremmel..

[Tiercel 6,986]

As said above, depending on what type of ground is being worked if you have a 100 yards of net a 50yd and 2 x 25yds would be more suitable. The type of ground I work is varied from large fields to sand dunes, so it pays to have different lengths of nets to try and cover as many bases as possible.

 

On a typical day doing tight hedgerows and large fields I would carry 2 x 50yds, 2 x 25yds and about 10 x 5yds. It does help if you know the ground that your working, as you should have an idea of where the rabbits will bolt too.

 

This is a typical day doing tight hedges and large fields where for the most part the rabbits stick to the hedges when they bolt. On both sides of the hedge we use 5yd stop nets placed at angles to the hedge to catch any rabbits that bolt out of the hedge but run along the hedge as they do on large fields.

 

 

However, sometimes as they near the end of a hedge they like to cut the corners so a 25yd net placed on the corner of the field sometimes picks up the odd rabbit or two.

 

 

Any gap in the hedge that allows you to set a stop net should be used. You will see the long net set on the other side of the hedge as there is a junction with another hedge on that side of the field.

 

 

With large field it is mostly a waste of time running long lengths of net along the hedge, unless there is a good reason to do so. In this picture the field is narrowing as we approach the end of the field and the rabbits bolt across the field to the railway embankment on the other side. So for the last 150 yards or so a net was placed along the hedge.

 

 

TC

Edited June 21, 2016 by tiercel

[Chicken_man 1,651]

I have a quick set, 25yd and 2 x 5yd stop nets. Getting a 30yd and 2 stops also.

Invaluable I find the quick set once you know how to set correctly. Thankfully the guy that made it, came out and gave some excellent tips.

TC and Katchum also gave good advice.

 

Atb