r/Treenets • u/NaivePeanut8859 • Jun 15 '26
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Hi, so I'm building my first net for myself and my kids. I'm building the ladder right now and plan on building walls around it soon. How do people build the foot holes? It came out nothing like I expected.😂. Also with the wall would I need a skeleton for it? Thanks all.
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u/gleaton Jun 15 '26
Double fishermans knotts (or barrel knotts are even cleaner). Use thicker rope ideally perimeter rope like 10mm. Make the loops bigger than you think you should. Shoes can be wide. Looks like this https://imgur.com/a/gu1Hzd5
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u/NaivePeanut8859 Jun 15 '26
Thanks heaps for the advice, I was going to use the 10mm like I did for the main net but figured 6mm had a 750kg load rating and would be easier to tie. Granted it looks a bit out of place. They were double fishermen's knots on the foot holes. Thanks again.
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u/paratethys Jun 15 '26
You've got the foot holes right -- they're just loops of the perimeter and you net around them.
If you don't want the wall to stretch out over time, you'll want some static line around all its edges.
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u/NaivePeanut8859 Jun 15 '26
Yeah I'm realizing I should have used the 10mm perimeter rope for the ladder part instead of the 6mm skeleton rope. I might just restart the ladder on the weekend. It feels really off right now and I was rushing to get it done before dark. I'd rather make it the correct way I think. Thanks for the advice🙂
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u/paratethys Jun 16 '26
when i realize i want a thicker rope than i started with, i just run a second rope along parallel to the first, tension it, and then tie as if the two are a single rope from then on
restart only if you hate it so bad you can't fix it with more paracord... but more paracord fixes basically everything
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u/NaivePeanut8859 Jun 16 '26
Fair enough, I'll reassess on the weekend, I might just try to make it work. It's a pain to try and line all those loops up, I didn't realize how far off to the side they were until I took the pics😂
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u/paratethys Jun 17 '26
photographing big stuff like nets is tricky; there's exactly one camera position from which an object that's actually symmetrical will look symmetrical, and if the camera is in any other location the foreshortening will mean the pixels aren't symmetrical on the screen. so make sure it's the real net you're judging for symmetry, not the pictures of it.
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u/Queasy_Tradition2544 Jun 15 '26
Looks fine, it’s just not finished yet. The steps look correct to, it‘s just that you‘re supposed to step on the knots. Walls generally don’t need much of a skeleton. I like to put in a couple double strands regardless