Question About Installing Netting

[Chukar Breeder]

I have never used netting before on top of my pens...only wire. So I am having a hard time installing this stuff, it says that this netting is 12.5ft. wide and my pens are 12ft. so I though no problem. I installed it on the front but then when I try to staple it to the pen on the sides it doesn't fit like it is not wide enough and it gets really tight in the front were it is connected and then I can't get it on the sides. This might not make any sense but ask questions if don't understand but can anyone give me advice on how to install netting?

                                                  Thanks for Your Time!

[Reeves]

Same as wire:sides first.

[Chukar Breeder]

but how much extra do I leave in the front and back 3ft....It make sense
             
                                                                 Thanks Reeves

[CharlieHorse]

I have never installed "netting", I have always used wire.  But, when putting the tonnoeu cover on the bed of my truck, it always goes on much easier if I snap all 4 corners on first, then go front to back, then side to side.  It should work under the same principal I imagine, and it should  insure to have enough to go all the way around?    Just an idea. 

[Reeves]

Don't listen to Charlie: he rubs fuzzy catapillars on his neck 

[jk]

Do the sides first, like was said. It'll be tighter thataway 

[CharlieHorse]

I made statemeant an I desurve respect in a timely manor!!!   

I'km go ing to ignoor you guys frum know on!   :P

[Chukar Breeder]

frum....CH I love it rumbing catapillars, I loved that topic...I also love that thing that you once had that said a stove pipe flies 40ft. in the air if...

Anway I started putting on the netting today thanks Reeves your way worked!

[wildergamebirds]

Anway I started putting on the netting today thanks Reeves your way worked!

  Eemagine that!

  If I have to do it alone, I try to work down one side 10-15 feet then the other, using temporary fasteners.  Continue this, until finished.  Then go back, and stretch it more, preferably after it has been in warm sunlight a few hours.  Pre-stretching before you start can help too.

[Chukar Breeder]

yes I am 16 and ever since I have had birds I have to build all my pens pretty much by myself. That is what I did work down 5ft. on one side then the other...

[Reeves]

I made statemeant an I desurve respect in a timely manor!!!   

I'km go ing to ignoor you guys frum know on!

You need one of those icon thingies that turns red and stomps it's feet 

[Chukar Breeder]

  we do need more icons!

[Chukar Breeder]

Well, it works until I get about 1/2 away down the pen and then I can't get the netting to stretch far enough...I started with about 6ft. extra over the front of the pen and work down length wise and when I got about 12 ft. the netting got really tight and I couldn't stretch it any further with keeping it tight along the board....should I leave it loose when I staple it onto the boards because when I was nailing it to the boards I was keeping it tight...this might not make that much sense, but bear with a first time netting guy

[CharlieHorse]

Hmmmmm??  That's wierd. 

Same as wire:sides first.

Don't listen to Charlie: he rubs fuzzy catapillars on his neck 

:P

Anway I started putting on the netting today thanks Reeves your way worked!

  Eemagine that!

  If I have to do it alone, I try to work down one side 10-15 feet then the other, using temporary fasteners.  Continue this, until finished.  Then go back, and stretch it more, preferably after it has been in warm sunlight a few hours.  Pre-stretching before you start can help too.

Do the sides first, like was said. It'll be tighter thataway 

I made statemeant an I desurve respect in a timely manor!!!  

I'km go ing to ignoor you guys frum know on!

You need one of those icon thingies that turns red and stomps it's feet 

:roll: 

I wish I could help ya, but I'm just a numbskull.

[Reeves]

I wish I could help ya, but I'm just a numbskull.

 

What I would do: staple all along the top first (not in sections at a time , do the whole one side) leave a couple extra feet at the end , the rest of the roll around the corner. Then go back where you started and do the bottom. Do the same till all the way around the pen. Go back to the starting point and do the end. Go to the end & do it.

If that don't work, ask that numbskull Charlie what he would do