Longnet making

[Furrosious ferreter 499]

What is the best alround weight ie 6z 8z and at what mesh size ie 2" making 4" mesh holes?

Cheers

FF

[lllluke1 329]

Personally I prefer 4z for longnets, tangles the rabbits better

[fred90 3,290]

I only have 4z and I prefer 2/1/8th mesh or 2/1/4.

[Furrosious ferreter 499]

Nice one cheers fellas

 

FF

[TOMO 26,759]

like the others 4z in 2,1/8.....or 2,1/4.....

I do have a 6z as well that tangles them up pretty well also

[smithie 2,443]

I'm assuming your ferreting with the net. Personally I would buy sheet netting off Nelson in 4z rather than knitting something with more weight for the day when you got to carry more gear..

Maybe 6z if it's going  through hedges and might snag.

You can make a case for any size mesh. Its down to what you want/prefer

[Furrosious ferreter 499]

Sod knitting it myself buddy...

Took me 4 months to knit 20 4ft purse nets.

Great call on nels0n though i have messaged him.

 

FF

[smithie 2,443]

I dont know why I thought you was going to knitt, but I did

[Furrosious ferreter 499]

I read on a tread that to make a 100 yard of net (???) At 1row a mintue of 14 mesh deep it would take 28 hours...

Thats like a hole day 

 

FF

[budgie123 163]

Have a look at Advanced Netting Supplies they do 4z 6z and 8z and the nets seem really good value. Some commercial long net suppliers use their nets.

I have a brinded nets in 4z and 6z both have provided excellent service and I have not seen any difference in catch rate with either.  Not sure on mesh size.

The 4z has worn much quicker and needed repairing much more.

Burnt heather on the moor we ferret is an absolute nightmare when picking up the net.

[Furrosious ferreter 499]

Cheers buddy

FF

[Mr Wilkes 3,058]

I have two fifty yard long nets that I made with advanced sheet netting ( many, many years ago) and they have caught a lot of rabbits in their time. I also have 3 fifty yarders made from Nels0ns sheet netting which are like silk, I think it may be time to retire the Advanced and move forward with the better gear.

[Mr Wilkes 3,058]

Your such a defeatist katchy

[beany01 223]

On 15/10/2019 at 22:26, budgie123 said:

Have a look at Advanced Netting Supplies they do 4z 6z and 8z and the nets seem really good value. Some commercial long net suppliers use their nets.

I have a brinded nets in 4z and 6z both have provided excellent service and I have not seen any difference in catch rate with either.  Not sure on mesh size.

The 4z has worn much quicker and needed repairing much more.

Burnt heather on the moor we ferret is an absolute nightmare when picking up the net.

Im a commercial fishermen, so have a fair amount of experience rigging nets. I brought a sheet of netting from advanced, and its ok, but its not as good as Nelsons lint. I dont know where he gets such a soft lint from, but advanced lints have a lot of binding agent on them. I gather Nelson buys 100 lints at a time, so he can get them made to his exact requirements. The advanced netting lint has started to soften now after a couple of years, but I would still buy all my longnets from Nelson. Hes an ex fishermen and knows how to rig gear properly, I have seen some hash ups by so called longnet riggers.

[smithie 2,443]

It's a long time ago now but I once had some nets that shrunk. I'm thinking it was a 4 inch mesh that shrank to 3inch 7\8.