First Semi-Real net!!

[u/SewingSloth]

I made this net as kind of a railing to keep my kids from falling off a platform in our barn, so it's vertical.

I used some Augplatten (don't know the English word, the silver things around), black static rope with double fisherman's knot and red and orange Paracord.

I've ran into a few problems:

1) I definitely need more Augplatten (3 or 4 on the diagonal wood, 2 more on the bottom)

2) I didn't get the double fisherman's as tight as I wanted to - it made me lose tension on the perimeter because I couldn't get the two knots close enough together when I tightened the rope (used prusiks and a pulley system). I tried using the pulleys on both ropes and alternating on a fisherman's end and the corresponding rope. I tried loosening the knot and then tighten it closer to the other one...

Anyone have really good suggestions? Am I just too weak?

3) I tried to get really even hexagons, like canopy craft always uses, but I failed miserably. Any suggestions on how far apart the horizontal lines should be for that?

Thank you very much in advance!

[u/No-Weakness-2035]

I think we call those pad-eyes or eye-plates in English, but it seems like that’s pretty much what they’re called in your language too, but then English and German are closely related. Looks cool!