Purse Nets

[danielt 1]

Anyone ?

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Measured in length between the two rings, mate. Three foot's the standard. But ye might do well to make one in ten a nice four footer. For those god awfull great cliff face looking holes where ye need all the curtain ye can get.

[darren m 1]

why the different weights 4oz , 10oz , what does that mean

and why is hemp so good ???.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

4oz, 10 oz ? Weight and so, usually, thickness of the twine used to make the nets, mate. Let me put it this way: In really Old Days - before any of us was born - they made twines out of Hemp. (Yes; Cannabis plant fibre. Dope into Rope).

 

Being vegetative, it had to be dried, after use, or it rotted. Just as compost does. So, if ye inadvertantly got a bit of dew, frost water or rain on ye hemp nets and then stuck them back in ye bag and hung that bag of dampened nets on the hook in ye shed? Next time a bun hit one, it was as likely to burst right through. Not good!

 

What was / is good is that hemp fibre, woven into the form of a purse net, lends a certain 'perfect' level of 'stiffness'. They hang just so and purse up around the bun just so. This concept of 'stiffness' may take some getting ye head round, if ye've never handled such nets. But carry that thought for a minute .....

 

Then, half a life time ago, someone came up with the idea of using Nylon thread to make purse nets. Only they used 'Shiney' and extremely thin nylon thread. I guess they reasoned that nylon is so bloody strong that they could get away with the thinnest thread. Only problem being that nylon is also extremely Light - at that thinness - and has absolutely no 'stiffness'. It's as limp as water, in fact.

 

So that's where we guys, accustomed to handling heavier, stiffer hemp nets met " Nylon ". We, by and large, detested the shit! Drape a hemp net over a hole and it would sort of self support itself. Forming a screen which was, shall we say, 'Central'. I.e. It was like a horizontal wall and thus, the moment Bun's nose touched it, he was driving against it and causing the start of the nets pursing.

 

Nylon nets ~ the early, thin, light ones ~ however tended to hang like an old womans tits. Flump! Bloody things just followed gravity and tended to pool at the lowest point. They allowed no finnesse in setting and, having done ye best with the wretched things, a passing thought could cause them to slip across their own shiney, slippery fibres and collapse in a heap at the foot of the bury mouth. There the slippery threads would slide through themselves and leave ye with an unholy tangle of net and bits of debrie. F*cking horrible things!

 

That's my experiance of them anyway. And those would have been the lightest weight nylon nets. I',m sure they had their uses ~ like on golf course putting greens!

 

Now we've had Spun Nylon for about a quarter of a century. We also have far heavier Nylon nets. 10 oz indeed? Blimey! I've never tried those. Maybe someone else could comment? Much more of this and we'll have a THL Book of Purse Nets on the go!

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Ditch' : You have far too much time on your hands

 

 

F*ckin tell me about it! By the time I'd got through the first paragraph I was regretting it! Thought, " Oh shit; What Have I started now?! " Had to keep the same level up. But yeah; It was crucifying!

 

I'm out of here. Sick to death of bloody purse nets now!

[poppy1 0]

the 10z are good nets mate will last you a life time :thumbs-up:

 

I have some of those from magnum trap company and the man is right they will last you a life time if you can afford them go for it.

Steve

[Guest Bigbob]

Ever tried knitting some with orange spun Maty' ? , lovely stuff

 

I got some of that from Johnson and send it back it was like knitting with a elastic band

 

Darren M you got a pm ,

[maty j 6]

Ever tried knitting some with orange spun Maty' ? , lovely stuff

I got some of that from Johnson and send it back it was like knitting with a elastic band

 

 

:laugh: you get a fair few nets from it, dont you chief :whistle: