Caribou Gear Tarp

amazon's two person hammock has 1500 ft of rope.

reesej

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$60, If you unravel the rope a bit, you'll see that it's made up of 44 tiny threads. If you twist 4 of those threads into 1 strand, it makes cordage strong enough to make net pens out of, which will hold waterfowl and fish. keep 100 ft of the rope for camp needs, and convert 1400 ft into the 4 strand cordage and you get 15,400 ft of it. It takes 9 ft of cordage to make 1 sq ft of 3" mesh netting, so the result is 1700 sq ft of netting made from the hammock. Wonder why so many think a 60 sq ft gillnet is worth taking, but 1700 ft of netting is not worth making? :) the gillnet that they take is 1.5" mesh, if you want such small mesh, you can either overlay 2 segments of the net and stitch thru them here and there, making 800 sq ft of 1.5" mesh, or you can weave in splits of local roots, vines, reeds, shoots, or strips of bark and have 1700 sq ft of 1.5" mesh. Such stuff suffices for net pens, but not for gillnetting or seining.
 
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