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“How-To” video
on installing and
properly storing
net, see website.
Common Mistakes with Netting
Two ways to make handling netting difficult instead of easy. 1. (above left) Even if you‘ve first folded the net correctly (as in step 1 below) , you can still make net “handling” difficult if you roll up the net beginning with the posts. This buries the black tie strings and risks entangling net with post spikes. 2. (above right) Rolling the net from one end to the other as you would roll a carpet. It’s hard work and takes a long time—both to roll and eventually unroll. How to remove/store netting Folding then rolling up the net the correct way… Step 1. First fold the net by picking it up sequentially by the posts. The netting naturally folds into sections as you do this. Keep the posts together in a bundle in your hands. Step 2. Lay the folds neatly on the ground. Starting at the end opposite the posts, roll the folded net toward the posts. When this is done, use the exposed end-post tie strings to secure it as a roll. Step 1. Correct Step 2. Correct #2 Incorrect Post/ Spikes Post/Spikes Posts/Spikes Posts/Spikes Post/Spikes110 ELECTRIC NETTING
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Most common
netting error
Allowing the
lowest live strand
to be caught by the
metal ground spike.
Result—
a direct
short through the
energized strand
to the metal spike
and into the soil.
Voltage will be very
low. Animals will
escape. You will
be frustrated!
(left) Energized wire
caught by steel spike. This
creates an immediate
“dead short” in the fence.
Spraying PermaNet to reduce
grass contact—
Without herbicides weeds can render netting
useless by midsummer in areas with rapid grass
growth. The bottom photo shows how this
fence line looked 2 weeks after spraying.
Too much green vegetation
When touching live strands, grass will
drain the energy out of an electric fence.
3 Solutions:
1) Move the fence (if
portable), then mow; 2) kill the grass
with herbicide; 3) graze/trim the grass
under offset wires.
To reduce green grass contact we spray a narrow
strip of herbicide along netting fence lines.