Making my own Longnet

[Pigeon Controller 1]

Following a recent holiday in Greece and reading Molecatchers book this inspired me to make my own net, I have have three nets currently 50,100, and 150yards all with poles attached and with cradles. my best night so far is 8 rabbits with one drop. when in Greece I went to the lacal fishemans shop and bought twenty 250gram spools of 210/12 (4ozs) and 210/24(6ozs) ten of each, this was called fishermans twine amd is used to repair nets. I have two questions

 

1. can you make a net of 30 meshes wide with the bottom 15 of 6ozs and the top of 4ozs this would help to make it more stable on windy nights or would the slight difference in the diameter make the net lopsided. You could compensate with a slightly smaller mesh gauge for the bigger diameter?

 

2. With nylon twine everybody says that you have to tie a double knot I can not find any pictures demon strating this double knot any ideas?

 

following your replies this might put me off the idea

 

Thanking you in anticipation

 

Pigeon Controller

[Tiercel 6,986]

Following a recent holiday in Greece and reading Molecatchers book this inspired me to make my own net, I have have three nets currently 50,100, and 150yards all with poles attached and with cradles. my best night so far is 8 rabbits with one drop. when in Greece I went to the lacal fishemans shop and bought twenty 250gram spools of 210/12 (4ozs) and 210/24(6ozs) ten of each, this was called fishermans twine amd is used to repair nets. I have two questions

 

1. can you make a net of 30 meshes wide with the bottom 15 of 6ozs and the top of 4ozs this would help to make it more stable on windy nights or would the slight difference in the diameter make the net lopsided. You could compensate with a slightly smaller mesh gauge for the bigger diameter?

 

2. With nylon twine everybody says that you have to tie a double knot I can not find any pictures demon strating this double knot any ideas?

 

following your replies this might put me off the idea

 

Thanking you in anticipation

 

Pigeon Controller

 

I think you are confused as to how a long net is made. The normal long net is knitted in 12 or 14 meshes across, the same way as a purse net is made. When you have completed the required length you then knit a selvage mesh on to each side of the net, making it 13 or 15 meshes deep. I think you are counting every row as a mesh, whereas there are two rows in a mesh.

 

To tie a double knot if you use a Sheet bend you can either loop the twine around the mesh twice before you pull tight. or simlpy knot the twine twice on the same mesh. There is another knot you can use that is the Carric bend.

 

If you google the above knots it will give you an idea of what I am talking about.

 

TC