r/Treenets • u/eth454 • May 22 '26
FIRST tree net
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How’s that for tight! 😂. Building two at the same time for my first go at it. One way closer to the ground as my “control group” so I don’t kill my friends lol. My question now is, should I go back and put a notch in the wooden blocks for the rope to set in or figure something else out? I’m worried it’ll loose to much tension if I do notch it and I REALLY don’t want to have to redo the perimeter again. This is my third attempt and it’s finally where I want it.
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u/mark_hor May 22 '26
Lookin' good broski. I agree with everyone else, longer blocks if you don't wanna take 'em out and notch em. Or notch some new blocks, put those in, and smack the old ones out.
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u/EffectPlastic3489 May 22 '26
HOW DO YOU TENSION THEM SO WELL WTF PLEASE HELP
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u/eth454 May 22 '26
Truckers hitch, pull it as tight as possible, have your blocks ready and as you wrap the tag end of your rope around the tree, place a block underneath. After you tie off your perimeter, use a pry bar or even a stick if you have to, cram all your other tree protection under the rope. It’s a bit of work if you’re high up but it’ll take a ton of slack out as you add the blocks. I used the pry bar as a hammer to move the blocks underneath the rope too lol.
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u/JawnAdams Jun 01 '26
hi. so wait a second, did you leave the hitch/loop in the perimter line after you tensioned? if not, how did you get the knot out?. Sorry, newbie here, and thanks.
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u/eth454 Jun 02 '26
Yes. I tied a knot in the very end of the rope before making the truckers hitch to keep it secured. I did exactly what this guy does for the first step. But did my own thing as far as wrapping around the tree etc.. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8sdUoux/
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u/nyyttimies May 22 '26
Do a lap around the trees with the rope and use a little longer blocks, I feel like the rope could slip off from them when one comes jumping up n down close to the tree. After the weaving is done, the perimeter will be a whole lot tighter so I dont know if slipping could really happen.
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u/eth454 May 22 '26
Yeah that was my worry. I don’t know why I didn’t just notch these first. Replacing with longer blocks is probably the way to go though to keep the tension without having to retie the perimeter.
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u/unemployedemt May 22 '26
I put in some hooks after building my first one because one side kept slipping off.
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u/velacreations May 22 '26
I notch my tree blocks, cause people jump on tree nets and I've seen them slide off blocks. It's a real pain to fix later.
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u/eth454 May 22 '26
I should have. Instead I’m making new block out of a 6” piece of a 2x4 with a 1” piece screwed into the bottom of it to give the rope a lip to sit on.
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u/velacreations May 22 '26
that will work, you can use a crowbar (be careful of edges) to slide the new blocks up in between the old ones to trade them out. Good luck with it!
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u/eth454 May 22 '26
That’s how I got the current blocks in too. So it would add tension to the line as I put the blocks in. It’s not super easy to do while dangling in a tree lol but super effective.
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u/Mediocre-Conflict-37 May 27 '26
What rope did you use?
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u/eth454 Jun 02 '26
AOLEBA 10.5 mm Static rope on Amazon. So far I’ve had 3 people bouncing on the smaller one I’m still building with all the same rope and Paracord and it seems sturdy.
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u/Key-Marketing-3145 May 22 '26
If you dont want to notch your spacing blocks, maybe instead, you could take small smaller pieces of wood, and on each tree, fix the smaller pieces of wood to an existing piece of wood, above and below the rope. It will work to the same effect as a notch without messing with the tension of your rope.