Many netting installations have some specific or particular connection/hanging requirements that need to be taken into account. For instance, a net may need to have the ability to be properly fastened or clipped to a set of existing cables, or to some posts/poles that are incorporated in the framing area. Many times we hear from our customers that the netting that they’ll be hanging will be wrapping around a set of posts for instance – or maybe the netting will be hanging horizontally and requires some additional connection points within the area of the mesh itself.
Whatever the situation may be, a great solution is to have “riblines” sewn-in through the inner area of the netting. Riblines are ropes that are woven through the mesh and are used as reinforced connection points for any sort of clipping/hanging that is needed during the final installation of the material. So rather than clipping to the individual twines of the netting, you have a thick rope to hook to. This increases the strength and long-term durability of the netting panel itself since the Dacron® rope is a much stronger clipping point than simply using the individual netting twine. The rope riblines are essentially just like the regular rope borders that are sewn-in around the perimeter of the nets, but they run through the area rather than around the edges.
The netting productions from Gourock.com that feature rope riblines are used for a pretty wide variety of different applications. We see them needed for backstop nets behind baseball and softball fields, for golf nets that are wrapping around different framing structures, on ceiling nets that are covering gymnasiums and sports facilities, on driving range and landfill nets that need additional connection points due to wind, and other various industrial or commercial installations that require central netting connections.
Generally speaking, the nylon nets that have riblines installed on them are built using the DuPont® type 66-728 twisted-knotted nylon netting. The edges are rope bordered with 5/16″ braided Dacron® ropes, which is what is also used for the central riblines as well. Below are some recent examples of custom netting productions supplied by Gourock.com that have rope riblines installed on them, and they help provide some additional context into this sort of netting construction and finished product:
