THE GILL NET
BECAUSE IT CAN ALSO BE USED TO CAPTURE BIRDS,
AND OTHER CREATURES;
AND OTHER CREATURES;
OR AS A CARRYING DEVICE,
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION;
A GILL NET CAN BE A VERY HANDY TOOL TO HAVE AVAILABLE
IN ANY DISASTER OR SURVIVAL SITUATION--
THE ONLY QUESTIONS THEN BECOMES;
WOULD IT BE PRACTICAL TO CARRY?
THE ANSWER IS--
IF PACKED SEPARATELY, PROBABLY NOT.
EVEN LIGHT, NYLON FILAMENT NETS ARE VERY BULKY;
AND TO MAKE, OR MANUFACTURE, ONE--
COULD REQUIRE,
MUCH MORE CORDAGE, OR SKILL,
THAN YOU HAVE AVAILABLE.
COULD REQUIRE,
MUCH MORE CORDAGE, OR SKILL,
THAN YOU HAVE AVAILABLE.
MANUFACTURING YOUR OWN CORDAGE AND OR NET
IS FAIRLY EASILY DONE; SO MUCH SO THAT DURING MY GROWING UP YEARS,
ALMOST EVERY YOUNG BOY COULD AND DID DO SO.
Young boys and some girls too used nets to catch everything from butterflies and other insects;
to fish, frogs, ground squirrels, rabbits, and often even larger animals.
We didn't have TV, Video Games, of cell phones; so we, basically, had to create or own entertainment
Most of our GAMES were leaning experiences, based on REAL LIFE SURVIVAL.
In, them, there, olden days, many of our games put a goodly amount of REAL food on the table at meal time.
IS FAIRLY EASILY DONE; SO MUCH SO THAT DURING MY GROWING UP YEARS,
ALMOST EVERY YOUNG BOY COULD AND DID DO SO.
Young boys and some girls too used nets to catch everything from butterflies and other insects;
to fish, frogs, ground squirrels, rabbits, and often even larger animals.
We didn't have TV, Video Games, of cell phones; so we, basically, had to create or own entertainment
Most of our GAMES were leaning experiences, based on REAL LIFE SURVIVAL.
In, them, there, olden days, many of our games put a goodly amount of REAL food on the table at meal time.
If you have the time, enough material, and the inclination, to make one;
- Begin by tying a length of cordage (heavier,if available) between two trees.
- Attach several lines to the horizontal,original by doubling them over, and tying them, using a prussic or girth hitch knot.
- The length of the desired net, and the size of the mesh, of course, determine the number of these lines used and the spacing between them.
- Starting at one end of the horizontal cordage,, tie the second and third of the now vertical lines together, using an overhand knot. Then tie the fourth and fifth, etch, etch until you reach the last; which should be left single..
- You should now have all the vertical lines tied in pairs, with a single line hanging at each end.
- Start the second row with the first line.Tie it to the second, the third to the fourth, and so on.
- To keep the rows even; and to regulate the size of the mesh, tie a horizontal guideline to the trees, on the opposite side of the net from which you are working.
- Move the guide line down after completing each row
- The lines should now always hang in pairs; and you always tie a cord from one pair to a cord from an adjoining pair.
- Continue tying rows until the net is the desired width; then thread a length of your heavier cord along the bottom, to give the net strength.
While it may be impractical to pack a net separately; nets have many very practical uses besides the catching of food. Nets may, themselves, be used to package items together, carry, lift, or store, other items, in your survival kit or even in food caches. They might be used as an aid for climbing, as the foundation for a rope bridge, to help provide camouflage while hunting, hammocks; or even as part of a wind-break or shelter, or as part of another type of trap or snare.
Nets may be bulky; but, a couple of spools of twenty pound test or higher nylon filament line and two hundred feet of nylon sash cord; or; preferably, parachute cord, are not. © Al (Alex, Alexander) D. Girvan. All rights reserved.
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