Hazel pegs

[cantona 310]

I cut some lengths of hazel to make pegs for nets with , I’ve made the pegs but there a bit soft on the point to use , can I speed up seasoning by microwaving them or is that nonsense 

[hambone 949]

Fire hardening is more to do with heat than burning so a microwave could work. Chuck a couple of pegs in and see what happens. . Let us know how they turn out.

[Guss33 375]

I have seen a lot of photos and videos on the internet and noticed that around the uk and Scotland all the pegs on the nets are wooden and I have always wondered why. In Australia I have never seen wooden pegs on the nets all the people I know use steel pins, I am a bit unsure if timber would even work in Australia as our ground is quite hard. 

[Arry 21,291]

I always use Oak or Ash whittled down they last forever imo.

Cheers Arry

[TOMO 25,995]

just get a point on them ...they dry soon enough ...just use them straight away....

i cut some hazel a few week back and put some new pegs on a dozen or so nets that i had repaired or had new draw line in

[TOMO 25,995]

22 hours ago, Guss33 said:

I have seen a lot of photos and videos on the internet and noticed that around the uk and Scotland all the pegs on the nets are wooden and I have always wondered why. In Australia I have never seen wooden pegs on the nets all the people I know use steel pins, I am a bit unsure if timber would even work in Australia as our ground is quite hard. 

mate here in the uk the ground is soft enough to just push a wooden peg in the ground by hand for the most part.....in mid winter like now rather than being baked hard it can be hard by being frozen ....but in general the ground here is soft