net placement

[young man 225]

i have two 20 foot long nets i extendent them and was wondering were is the best place to sett the long netts ? so say i was ferreting a little hedge were would be the best place to sett them thanks?

[albert64 1,882]

they sound like stopnets mate, if i'm doing a hedgerow i place one either end of the sett

as most rabbits run along the hedge not out in the field

[The one 8,511]

As said either end of the burrow your ferreting and move them as you go ,or put them threw gaps in the hedge to pick up any running the hedge

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

they sound like stopnets mate, if i'm doing a hedgerow i place one either end of the sett

as most rabbits run along the hedge not out in the field

[Tiercel 6,986]

i have two 20 foot long nets i extendent them and was wondering were is the best place to sett the long netts ? so say i was ferreting a little hedge were would be the best place to sett them thanks?

 

A good question.

 

The obvious answer is where you think the rabbits are going to bolt too. That sounds crass I know but it is the truth. 5 yards of net in the right place will always catch more that 100 yards in the wrong place. It shows your actually thinking about net placement and that is a good place to start when using long nets.

 

I do one hedge where one side there is a 3 acre field and the other side it is a 100 acre field. On the big field side I place 5 yard stop nets at 40 to 50 yard intervals to catch the rabbits bolting up the hedge as there is nowhere else near for them to run too. on the small field side I have to run out 200 yards of net all the way along the hedge as the rabbits have a place of safety on the other side of the small field so always bolt across the field.

 

Nearly every warren has an escape route if there is not another warren nearby they will tend to hole hop. That is where you get the purse nets out.

 

TC

[young man 225]

i have two 20 foot long nets i extendent them and was wondering were is the best place to sett the long netts ? so say i was ferreting a little hedge were would be the best place to sett them thanks?

 

A good question.

 

The obvious answer is where you think the rabbits are going to bolt too. That sounds crass I know but it is the truth. 5 yards of net in the right place will always catch more that 100 yards in the wrong place. It shows your actually thinking about net placement and that is a good place to start when using long nets.

 

I do one hedge where one side there is a 3 acre field and the other side it is a 100 acre field. On the big field side I place 5 yard stop nets at 40 to 50 yard intervals to catch the rabbits bolting up the hedge as there is nowhere else near for them to run too. on the small field side I have to run out 200 yards of net all the way along the hedge as the rabbits have a place of safety on the other side of the small field so always bolt across the field.

 

Nearly every warren has an escape route if there is not another warren nearby they will tend to hole hop. That is where you get the purse nets out.

 

TC

thanks mate! yea some varie we only do some hedge most is ground setts butt whats the difference beetween a stop net an long net as im only 13 and only new to longnets

[Tiercel 6,986]

Young man,

 

A stop net is just a short long net, different parts of the country have different names for the same type of net. I have heard them called hedge nets, stop nets and even ditch nets. They are all basically the same nets (short long nets) just used differently.

 

TC

[young man 225]

ok cheers mate!