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Long net making
Topic Started: 20th July 2008 - 10:10 PM (1,649 Views)
Nige
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Well, I've got the hang of making purse nets, and although they take me a while to make, the cash savings make it worth the effort - worked out that it is costing me less than 60pence per net, instead of the £2.70 to buy them.
Now I intend to make a long-net, but I would like some advice about how to go about it. I know the net needs to be about a metre high (or wide), and as long as I like, but -

1) What size should I make the mesh (1 inch, 1.5 inches, 2 inches)?

2) Would I be better starting by working off one of the stakes, or starting 'free hand' ?

Any other advice would be appreciated, thanks.
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I would start it just the same as you would start a purse net (loop of twine, split ring, or I've even seen people start on a ring and cut it off later) Commercial nets are made on machines and are a 2" mesh, while this is perfectly acceptable it is a little small for some, the old timers used a 2 1/4" mesh but this is a little too big for some, so I would advise a 2 1/8" mesh as do a few of the well known net makers around today.
Machine made nets are 15 ½ meshes deep, the old time longnets were 12 meshes deep so if you choose to go with a 2 1/8” mesh size I would make it 14 meshes deep, providing you have plenty of bagging in your net you can’t go wrong.
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Thanks for that Netter, I reckon I'd better make a new mesh-stick, and get a couple of kilometres of twine, and get started!

Netter, just to clear something up ('cos I'm thick, me :wacko: ) if I use a 2 1/8" mesh, does this mean my mesh-stick should be 1 1/16" wide?

Thanks.
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Nige
Jul 21 2008, 09:36 AM
Thanks for that Netter, I reckon I'd better make a new mesh-stick, and get a couple of kilometres of twine, and get started!

Netter, just to clear something up ('cos I'm thick, me :wacko: ) if I use a 2 1/8" mesh, does this mean my mesh-stick should be 1 1/16" wide?

Thanks.

The mesh stick should be 2 1/8" to make a 4 1/4" full mesh, so when it's opened out it is 2 1/8" square. I hope that makes sense.
The problem with a 2" mesh is that big rabbits will only be caught by the head and some will bounce off, the good thing about it is that it slays 3/4 grown ones.
With a 2 1/4" mesh it tangles up full grown rabbits with ease, but anything less just flies through.
So with a 2 1/8" your going for the best of both worlds, to save you making a few longnets.
I have a 50yd Hemp net that I made with a 1 1/2" mesh gauge especially for young rabbits.
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I've made a start now; mesh stick is 2 1/8" (54mm). I've gone for 15 meshes deep, and at the moment, it's a foot long.



This may take some time; it's not quite as easy joining so many holes together as it appears :D

Netter, do you think I would be better off making 2 or 3 25yard nets, or just going all out for a biggy?
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Jul 22 2008, 09:28 PM
I've made a start now; mesh stick is 2 1/8" (54mm). I've gone for 15 meshes deep, and at the moment, it's a foot long.



This may take some time; it's not quite as easy joining so many holes together as it appears :D

Netter, do you think I would be better off making 2 or 3 25yard nets, or just going all out for a biggy?

It all depends on what your using them for mate. A few shorter ones are handier that one long one when ferreting, but for night netting the longer the better. :ph43r:
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One of the vids i have the chap runs the hemp through a bucket of wood preserver before making his nets makes them last longer. Video's called "Rabbiting (just some of the methods)" with Mick Mansbridge. With hemp nets dont foget if they get wet they are going to be very heavy. I have one 25yd in 4z nylon and a 100yd in 6z nylon which is now attached to fibre glass rods and can be run out in a few minutes. The trouble with nylon it collects the crap easily, the only time i used it there were all dead thistle stems in the field ( should have done a recon in the daylight) took me most of the next day cleaning the bloody stuff out, with hemp nets its easier to clean the off.
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Nige hows the longnet making coming along?
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Hi mate, the net's not coming on too bad - taking a long time though! In between work, family, shooting, sleeping etc. I don't have a real lot of time to spend on it, especially as I've been making a lot of purse nets; but at the moment, it's about 13 meters long, and about a meter high.
I made a bigger needle too, 'cos the pastic one that I bought, is only 6" long, and didn't really hold enough twine.
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Still a lot of holes you've got to knit then, :o what length are you reckoning on finishing, what are you using 4 or 5 ply hemp?
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Nige
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I'm using 4 ply mate, and just bought another 1000 meters today, so I can get on and do a bit more, now that I think I have enough purse nets for the time being!


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Hows the "Knitting" coming on Nige **hahaha**
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'cos the pastic one that I bought, is only 6"
never mind mrs, size is not eveything.
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