Repairing Long Nets

[Tiercel 6,986]

Following on from the other thread, I thought I would show how I repair my nets. I feel that everyone should know how to repair nets and it is not really that difficult. This method can be used horizontaly or vertically, I just prefer the horizontal way of doing it.

 

First off the tools I use for the way I repair nets.

 

 

Two pieces of bar wood dowel what ever, a straight piece of wire about 10 inches long and twine and a scissors.

 

To set the net up for the repair I add the bars above and below the tear, and tension them with the bungee.

 

 

 

 

Next I trim the hole back to full meshes on the top and bottom and to side bars on both sides.

 

 

Next you pick your starting point which must always have three legs.

 

 

This is where the bar comes in, I place the bar across the meshes below to create a sort of guage.

 

 

I now start my first row of meshes working from left to right ending on a side mesh.

 

 

You are now ready to do the second row, first you move the wire down on row of meshes. This time you have to work from right to left, so instead of going up through a mesh you go down through, make you loop on the opposite side and make sure when you complete the knot that the twine is coming out of the knot facing left, again finishing on a side knot.

 

 

You carry on with the repair untill you have one row left to do, you then dispence with the piece of wire and pick up the meshes from the bottom of the repair.

 

 

You finish that row on a three leg knot and that is the repair complete.

 

 

TC

 

 

Edited November 10, 2013 by tiercel

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

very good tc just about the same as i do i DO like the idear of tucking the wire under one row and useing it as a fixed gauge very clever. i wrap the last 2 full mesh round my little finger then use that as a gauge, for the rest of the new webs..

 

 

 

[Hot Meat 3,109]

I must be thicker than I thought, could have wrote that in Chinese with pics from paulus and I'd still be none the wiser lol it's deffo down to me tho and not your post tiercel

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

oh tc like the coffee mug too!

[Mr Goodcat 69]

Nice post and pics, I'm sure it will help a lot of people out.

I do mine in a similar way but I use a steel rod jig (approximately 500mm x 300mm) for the whole thing apart the mesh sizes I use a normal gauge. But I do like your idea using a rod to gauge the distance, I might think about trying it out. Cheers. Mr Goodcat.

[Tiercel 6,986]

Nice post and pics, I'm sure it will help a lot of people out.

I do mine in a similar way but I use a steel rod jig (approximately 500mm x 300mm) for the whole thing apart the mesh sizes I use a normal gauge. But I do like your idea using a rod to gauge the distance, I might think about trying it out. Cheers. Mr Goodcat.

As I always say there is no right or wrong with netting, if it works don't knock it. There is more than one way of skinning a cat and as long as the job is done then it does not really matter how you get there.

 

TC

[terryd 8,573]

My attempt at a repair today certainly didn't look like above thats for sure. Bit of practice though we will get there. Should tangle a rabbit hopefully and as a backup it would probably die of laughter

I think I go wrong at the cutting a section out part

 

Well I think between tc's post and the picture here on post 11 http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/39470-repairing-long-net/

then the splicing lines post here

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/86720-splicing-nylon-twines/

I should be fine in the future. The long netting section makes a good read from the beginning plenty of good posts over the years

Edited November 16, 2013 by terryd

[andy mecca 5]

Excellent post Tiercel

Explains the job as good as anyone can, im sure it will help a lot of folk out.

Well done