Crackpots Rural
Quality bird netting to protect your crops
Bird netting is a great way to protect your crops and get the best harvest possible. We have netting options for orchards, temporary throw over netting, netting solutions for warehouses & sheds; as well as bird netting for ponds and aquaculture dams.
How do you choose the right bird netting for your application?
Before you purchase your netting, its important to understand the type of netting that best suits your requirements. Below we discuss what we recommend for permanent installs, seasonal protection, as well as aquaculture.
Bird netting for Permanent Orchard Structures
Our netting is 1 ¼″ black, 6 ply netting made from UV-treated, black hard twisted polyethylene twine. It’s small enough to keep the little birds like silver eyes away from your fruit, but will let the pollinating insects like bees and butterflies through.
Our premium heavy duty 6ply netting is perfect for permanent orchard structures where the netting is permanent installed, and under constant tension. Using the 6 Ply netting means that your orchard structure will last for many years – some of our customers have had them installed for 15 plus years.
We also recommend 6 Ply netting for building chook pens and cat enclosures.
Best Bird netting for protecting individual fruit trees
We recommend our premium standard 1 ¼” 4ply netting as a temporary option, for example using as a throwover netting solution for a single or a couple of trees during the fruiting season.
The netting is the same size as the 6 ply netting so will keep out small birds like green & silver eyes, but it does need to be put out & brought in each year. If you know what piece sizes you need, you can order throwover netting online, and have it delivered direct to your door.
TIP – secure the throwover netting around the base of your tree or birds can get the fruit by going underneath the netting.
Bird Netting for Dams & Aquaculture
In addition to our 1 ¼” netting, we stock and supply a range of other bird net sizes, that will suit everything from a pond through to a large scale dam. Depending on which birds you need to exclude, there’s a netting option to help. Generally, 3” 9 ply net is best suited to keeping medium size birds off ponds, but will also work to exclude larger birds too. 6” 12 ply bird net can be used to if its only larger birds you’re targeting.
| Netting Size | Thickness | Aperture Size | Application |
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| 3” | 9 Ply | 38mm x 38mm | Mainly Industrial Setting – protecting ponds & nut trees from medium birds (parrots, doves, kookaburras) & larger birds. |
| 6 “ | 12 | 75mm x 75mm | Farm Dams – exclusively protects against larger birds ( herons, ducks, shags etc) |
| 6” | 15 Ply | 75mm x 75mm | Farm Dams – exclusively protects against larger birds (herons, ducks, shags etc) |
Are there different ways to make bird netting?
Fundamentally there are two distinct ways to make netting. One is knitting & the other is knotting. We believe in supplying a product that will last for many years, which is why we have chosen black knotted netting.
Advantages of Crackpots Knotted Netting
| Feature | Benefit |
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| Made from black hard twisted polyethylene twine |
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| UV Treated |
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| Low Profile |
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| Knots at corner of every mesh |
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| Easily tensioned |
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You can see how the open construction of knitted netting would attract moisture and dust, making the netting heavier, likely to sag and susceptible to tearing.
Plus knitted netting is not easily repaired if it gets damaged.
How is bird netting measured?
It’s easy to get confused about how bird netting sizes are measured. In short, the measurement or size of the netting (nearly always in inches not centimetres or millimetres!) refers to the gaps between the knots when it is fully stretched, not the sides of each mesh. Remember bird netting is diamond in. shape NOT square.
Here’s a quick guide:
1 ¼” bird netting:
Each mesh measures 15mm x 15mm when fully open, and 1 ¼” between knots when fully stretched.
3” bird netting:
Each mesh measures 38mm x 38mm when fully open, and 3” between knots when fully stretched.
6” bird netting:
Each mesh measures 75mm x 75mm when fully open, , and 6” between knots when fully stretched.
