How Long Does It Take to Net

This year, we were on time to order our netting and we also had a netting unroller platform made for us by our welder, Scott. He ingeniously configured the back of our riding lawn mower with an aluminum platform that could handle the netting.
We have 10 rows of vines that needed netting, each row being 756 feet long.

My husband had to calculate how many anchor clips and bottom clips we needed to accomplish the netting task. The anchor clip, shown on the immediate left goes on the trellis wire to hold up the netting. The clip seen on the far left is what we used to secure the bottom of the netting.
First task, put up all of the anchor clips. Our first netting adventure was on August 29th. With the help of our friend, Bob, we were able to net one row in 30 minutes! It really does take 3 people to make this task feasible. One person to drive the mower and two people to put up the netting. It took us 4 days to put up 10 rows of netting. We are still clipping the bottom of the nets. So far we have done 4 rows. We were in the process of putting on the clips for 2 more rows when a deluge of rain fell and chased us home. I'll update this blog with more photos of what the anchor clips and bottom clips look like when they are on the netting. Here is the photo. My husband informed me that the name for the bottom clip is vin-clip.