Fox Nets

[bshadle 5]

Another newbie question, but I can't find an answer in the archives or on the internet. The few directions I've found make it clear as mud.

 

How do you rig a fox net? Obviously, you stretch it over a bolt hole. They appear to have rings, and the rings get staked into the ground. Does the net have a drawstring attached to the rings and draw tight when a fox hits it?

 

If/when I order a few, will the use be fairly obvious?

 

Thanks for any assistance.

[josh! 0]

i thinks its just the same as a rabbit net so i would reach a little bit in tho the hole and push the bottom ring into the groundthen the spred the rest of the net back and over the entrance, then rest the top ring on the top of the ground abboue the hole then take up the slack with the draw string, make sure you pust the ped in good and thats how i do it

[COMPO 54]

:11: josh i think the lad is in the states where they dont work ferrets...it's illegal, ...so he wont have set a rabbit net :11:

 

the fox nets you are on about are larger versions of what i use to catch rabbits, they are purse nets, named as such because they close like an old fashioned purse around their victim,

 

the rings are at each end, through the rings and through all the outside meshes is a draw cord, at one end (i.e.) outside the ring you attach a peg, the peg is pushed into the ground, the ring opposite the peg is pushed gently into the soil at the bottom of the hole...the drawcord is then spread out around the outside of the hole and the second ring nearest the peg is rested on the ground above the hole, then if a fox tries to escape it will be pursed inside the net :11:

 

 

 

have a search on the ferreting forum on here for pics of purse nets...the exact same principle just fox nets are larger

[COMPO 54]

dont peg the rings down mate, drap the net fully over to hole, and push the peg into the groung above the hole or to one side, make sure there are no gaps that the fox could push through

 

 

sorry didn't i make that clear, peg the drawcord not the net, as the drawcord has got to close the net around the fox as it hits it

[COMPO 54]

dont peg the rings down mate, drap the net fully over to hole, and push the peg into the groung above the hole or to one side, make sure there are no gaps that the fox could push through

 

 

sorry didn't i make that clear, peg the drawcord not the net, as the drawcord has got to close the net around the fox as it hits it

wasnt knocking you mate,at the top he said the rings get staked

 

didn't notice that :11: good spot, and a very good point, the fecking fox would bounce back like hitting a tennis racket :11:

[Guest Haggler]

Looks like this

 

 

 

 

Haggler

[COMPO 54]

fantastic pics haggler.....do you have a pic of the net before the fox entered as that may help the lad with setting one...i tried to upload a pic but i cant on this site

[Guest Haggler]

fantastic pics haggler.....do you have a pic of the net before the fox entered as that may help the lad with setting one...i tried to upload a pic but i cant on this site

 

Thanks. I was looking but I don't have any in my computer. I think I have some in my photo from the 35mm camera but I'll have to sort through a bunch to find them. I'll look and see.

 

Haggler

[bshadle 5]

Thanks, all. It's becoming clearer now. Sometimes this Yank just has a thick head and has to read it and see it a few different ways. Left to my own devices, I might have been bouncing the fox back down the hole into the terrier!

 

So you DON'T peg through the rings, just through the drawcord NEAR one of the rings, and the ring on the other side gets pushed lightly into the ground to help hold the net open until the fox hits it?

 

The rings, then, are basically just weights to help hold it in place?

[COMPO 54]

Thanks, all. It's becoming clearer now. Sometimes this Yank just has a thick head and has to read it and see it a few different ways. Left to my own devices, I might have been bouncing the fox back down the hole into the terrier!

 

So you DON'T peg through the rings, just through the drawcord NEAR one of the rings, and the ring on the other side gets pushed lightly into the ground to help hold the net open until the fox hits it?

 

The rings, then, are basically just weights to help hold it in place?

 

 

you wont go far wrong..the rings are what you stitch the cord to when making nets and help when you are putting them away, you stretch it out and pick the twigs and debris out, then fold it end to end until in about a quater then you wrap the peg and drawcord around the whole thing, holding it together in your bag/pocket

 

the rings will help hold it in place, dependng on the hole though you may need to utilise twigs etc..to stop the net falling into the hole...

 

practice makes perfect, and there is no substitute for experience, shame there isn't someone nearby to show you,

 

get out and practise and let us know how you get on

[PBurns 9]

See >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ferreter/working1.htm

 

This about covers it. When the fox hits the net, it will be at a full run and the net will bag around him at the draw cords will pull it all closed behind, bagging the fox. The rings and the cord are all part of a continuous cord around the outside of the net.

 

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[bshadle 5]

OK... Think I got it. The pictures on the above link confirmed what I figured from the advice. Also found a link there under "working ferrets" to a set of instructions for making your own purse net. Not ready to try THAT, but the pictures clearly show how the rings come in to play. All this time I thought the rings were handles on the drawcord! Now it all makes sense.

 

Thanks again guys. Lots of knowledge on this board, and glad you're willing to share it. I knew the answer was here if I could just figure out how to ask the question.

[fencer 0]

Great pics haggler you must have a really fast trigger finger, please lets see more like this.

[COMPO 54]

OK... Think I got it. The pictures on the above link confirmed what I figured from the advice. Also found a link there under "working ferrets" to a set of instructions for making your own purse net. Not ready to try THAT, but the pictures clearly show how the rings come in to play. All this time I thought the rings were handles on the drawcord! Now it all makes sense.

 

Thanks again guys. Lots of knowledge on this board, and glad you're willing to share it. I knew the answer was here if I could just figure out how to ask the question.

 

 

now we will just wait for pics of your fox nets wrapped around a fox

 

bear in mind the directions for making nets on that site are for capturing rabbits flushed by ferrets, fox nets are twice that size with bigger mesh, buy a few before attempting to make your own, i know that obvious but i thought i waould say anyway as i couldn't bear to think of some yank struggling with a fox in a rabbit net :11: :11:

 

also worth saying some foxes play dead when netted, some dont, i would have a gun or spade handy to despatch them quickly :11: