Long Net Poles

[DanAdams 10]

Hi all, i'm part of the way through making a budget long net and was thinking about the poles earlier. Because I'm trying to make it as cheap as possible I don't want to spend £4 on each pole buying the proper ones . I was just wondering what people use. I heard some people use hazel? Thanks Dan

[The one 8,503]

Basic economy doweling

[smithie 2,443]

i use hazel but i have seen privet used and heard of people using golf flags or holly cut to size... just use what ever you get your hands on until something better comes along.

[tilfertilfer 706]

tent poles buy cheap tents from car boots chuck tent away poles are us but i do make some spikes for the ends and weld them in

[saharashadow 26]

Hazel for me every time. It's free, is plentiful, grows straight and hardens off nicely. Usually cut mine in winter when the sap is down, then let them dry and harden off.

[DanAdams 10]

thanks everyone

[The one 8,503]

Hazel for me every time. It's free, is plentiful, grows straight and hardens off nicely. Usually cut mine in winter when the sap is down, then let them dry and harden off.

If he's got to wait till the saps down and dry them he's not going to be using them this year

[smithie 2,443]

but he will be prepared for next year after making do this time around

[lifelong cumbrian 1,826]

If you go to a gamefair or country show you should be able to pick poles up for £2 each. I bought some fibre glass at Lowther last year for £2 each. They are £2.50 each on ebay.

[DanAdams 10]

Thanks again every one

[Shamo 319]

Must be me, but it seems everybody wants to buy, buy, buy. Where are all the people gone who make, make, make?............lol. Really nice when you use something that works, which you made and cost next to nothing. Cut some Hazel now and store in the dry, by the time it's used, it'll be dry enough and it will get dryer.

[lifelong cumbrian 1,826]

Must be me, but it seems everybody wants to buy, buy, buy. Where are all the people gone who make, make, make?............lol. Really nice when you use something that works, which you made and cost next to nothing. Cut some Hazel now and store in the dry, by the time it's used, it'll be dry enough and it will get dryer.

I make 99% of my own gear but hazel poles are no good for the baskets that I make, if they were consistently the same diameter I use them but as they are not I buy the poles.

 

 

[Country Joe 1,411]

Ive used tradional Hazel for years, still do, but the object of the basket system is to store your nets and poles, the smaller basket i use holds four 5 yds stop nets, using the fibreglass poles. thats 8 poles.

There is no way you can get hazel thin enough, and would still hold your net.

Hazel is fine with the tradional system, and fibreglass with the preset and basket.

Theres room in the sport to use both, its not the case of sticking to just the one method.

[buster gonads 862]

tent poles buy cheap tents from car boots chuck tent away poles are us but i do make some spikes for the ends and weld them in

Be carfull using these tent poles, i were sorting some stop nets out on the green when one of these splinterd, i didnt get them in me but if my hand had slipped down the pole the outcome wouldnt have been good, atb, buster.

[Tiercel 6,986]

I don't use quick sets and seeing LC's basket was made for 10mm glass poles, it's only them that will fit in them. That said, this chap seems to do well with his makeshift netting gear.

 

http://www.thehuntin...me-longnetting/

 

Most commercially available baskets will accommodate hazel poles so I dont see the problem with using them.

 

TC

Edited July 16, 2013 by tiercel