Tying Off One End?

[B.P.R 2,798]

Im fairly new to this netting malarkey

 

And after advice/reading the book....

 

I made a stopnet with the cord able to slip through the endpins...

 

But i just couldnt get on with it

 

If i wanted the footline...to be loose and the headline to be tight...i couldnt get it?

 

Whereas...if i let one side run through the pin....

 

But tie the other off...

 

I find it much easier to keep the topline tight?

[smithie 2,443]

its all in the knot you tie the top line with when pegging.

[B.P.R 2,798]

its all in the knot you tie the top line with when pegging.

 

I tie it right.... i think?

[Tiercel 6,986]

First question I would ask is, why do you want the footline slack?

 

TC

[smithie 2,443]

First question I would ask is, why do you want the footline slack?

 

TC

thats down to me, i told him i have mine slack to follow the contors of the ground. if i dont do this the bottom line goes over the ruts that the farmers landrover leaves and the bunnies run up these ruts.. i should add some of the ground is a bit rocky and uneven but if you have good flat land like a football pitch it might be a differnet story

 

horses for course

[The one 8,503]

You have a pm

[Country Joe 1,411]

When i run out stop nets if there is a gap in the bottom line due to ground contour, I just peg it down with a plastic tent peg.

keep a few in my bag.

[smithie 2,443]

We all do things differently and do what agrees with us. But pegging it down is not for me. You could have both wheel ruts running through the same 5 yards of net and buy pegging the net can't run along the line and if I did that in 2 places I would be making the net even less afective in my eyes. It would not run as fast on a slack line as I tight one but I prefer the line slack enough to follow the land

[The one 8,503]

some times i dont even put the bottom line on the poles due the the lie of the land

[Tiercel 6,986]

As stated we all do things differetly, I have never come accross a situation where I have needed to leave the bottom line loose. One question, how do you get tention on the head lines with the bottom line having no tention? The only way I can think of is tying the running line to the end peg.

 

TC

[Country Joe 1,411]

We all do things differently and do what agrees with us. But pegging it down is not for me. You could have both wheel ruts running through the same 5 yards of net and buy pegging the net can't run along the line and if I did that in 2 places I would be making the net even less afective in my eyes. It would not run as fast on a slack line as I tight one but I prefer the line slack enough to follow the land

Using the pegs, has never stopped me from catching a Rabbit hitting the net, and thats the main thing.

but as you say we all do things different.

[smithie 2,443]

My pegs are all going through the mesh at top and bottom and the running line is wrapped around the peg at the bottom but I don't have big tension in between pegs. First and last peg are fixed better so I have tension on end pins to pegs and I can keep top line tight. I would not fancy no peg to tie the bottom line but I will try it so I can have a valid opinion. But if it works for the man there's nowt wrong with it

[Country Joe 1,411]

I think LC may have a photo of a slope in a wood, where the net was pegged at a few places on the bottom line.

[smithie 2,443]

Cj no need for a photo and their is no dowt in my mind about you catching like this. I'm sure you have many times. Just the other way is my prefrence.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

A successful rabbit catcher ,..is an adaptable fecker...

Edited June 24, 2013 by Phil Lloyd