Snow 2, bird netting 0

[noregerts]

Argh It’s only early December and we’ve had two light snows do this already. The run is about 60x 25 and covered in bird netting. It’s fantastic for protection against flying predators but not so great against wet snow. This time it looks like the fence panel almost gave up too dang it. I haven’t been out there yet, too cold, pic is from the camera my husband, aka Inspector Gadget, installed out there. Any suggestions? Aside from moving further South I mean.

 

[NHMountainMan]

do you typically get snow in your part of Tn? If so, you'll def need more structure to support the netting. If it's typically a snow then a melt a day or two later - you may just want to accept the fact it'll collapse, and fix it after the melt.

 

[aart]

Any suggestions?

Hard to make specific suggestions when I can't really see what you've got to work with,
more pics when once things thaw out.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Since you probably can't provide photos of what it looks like sans snow, can you at least describe the fence and support? Like the height, materials used, types and number of posts, size of the netting holes, etc. 60x25 is a pretty big span, are there support posts inside the run or spanning cross supports or what is there to keep the netting from sagging? We had an unusually heavy snow fall last year so our netting did sag but the fence and all the supports held up.

 

[Oz chic]

So sorry this happened to you

It is terrible isn’t it, I had the same thing happen this September after we got 6 cm of snow. I had side fences collapse, the netting tore and the garden arches/trellises, had inside the run to lift the netting and grow climbers on, all collapsed.

I never thought it could happen as we don’t get snow, we get quite cold, but not snow, so it was quite a surprise.

I just left the netting off after that, gave me a good reason to extend the run.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

There's nothing you can do to protect netting over that broad of an area from snow load, unless you want to stay outside while it's snowing and shake off the snow as it collects. My solution was to connect covered dog kennels together (30x10) and then cover them with 16' cattle panels. Snow falls through so there's no load problem.