Sunday 18 September 2016

Spacenet #4.. THE ILLUMINETI

For a long time I have been sitting on 60m of
glow-in-the-dark paracord, I had purchased it for 
a big spacenet project that I never found the time to start..

I chose to give up on the larger project for now and focus on 
building another triangle spacenet, this way I can rig a float-line 
between them and that's something I have been planning for awhile..


I started off putting 2 stakes in the ground and a hanger onto my shed and
created a triangle with edges around 6m apart, I connected 6x 2.5m spansets
together to create 5m edges which will be replaced with a permanent outer
material as soon as I decide between Amsteel or 5m spansets..


I girth-hitched my paracord along the bottom edge about 5" apart and 
started off by weaving the corners towards the middle, It was the first 
time I have not used a loom and by the half way point I realised i was going
to run out of cord. I pulled the net downwards and managed to save it
but the weave had to change pattern and i was still a meter short..


To fill in the gap in the top point I used 350 glow-in-the-dark paracord,
I also had some unrated glow-cord and with the remaining 350 cord
I created an Illuminati inspired pyramid eye in the center of the net..


This is my 'ILLUMINETI'
And I am unhappy with it so its getting remade immediately..

Island Hunter

For a long time I have known about a possible highline on an island,
and on this island is a sea spire that dreams are made of..


Last year I had almost finalised plans to rig this line but
everything was a bit rushed and unfortunately it all fell
through at the last minute, this year I have more time to plan
this project so hopefully 2017 will be the year.. fingers crossed.


Thursday 8 September 2016

Spacenet #3.. Salvage

The past year I have been slowly picking apart the knots
in my first Spacenet, I planned on using the scraps to weave
something slightly bigger with a hole in the center..


I started off with 2.5m spansets for outers and used a spare
piece of 11mm static rope to create my inner edging for the hole,
I girth hitched all my strands to the center and weaved backwards
into each corner, now I have an exit for a rope swing..


I'm pretty happy with the final result and it was a good chance
 to practice some new knots..


On to the next one..