Practice Net

[Lo Chavernac]

I am looking for a practice net rolling system. I cannot have a cage/net installed at all time and I am looking for net on a rolling tube ( like a Roller shade). I found on you tube a video of a retractable net but would like to see if any one heard about this kind of product. Thank you.

[rehmwa]

Do a search here - lots of threads on indoor ranges, practice nets, etc.

Mine is just tarp and blanket hung from a PVC frame.  It rolls up and stores just fine.

Cheap and easy to make.  Leave the bottom loose so it 'catches' without holes...(some flex is necessary)

If I did it over again, I'd just have clamps and blanket and not all the rest.  Simple is better.  It's not rocket science.

 

Edited April 13, 2017 by rehmwa

[dennyjones]

I have a Rukket net.   It isn't rolling but can easily be put up in under 5 minutes.   It works very well.  

Rukket net

Edited April 13, 2017 by dennyjones

[Hacker James]

5 hours ago, Lo Chavernac said:

I am looking for a practice net rolling system. I cannot have a cage/net installed at all time and I am looking for net on a rolling tube ( like a Roller shade). I found on you tube a video of a retractable net but would like to see if any one heard about this kind of product. Thank you.

Many, many years ago. I remember window shades with a pull string. The shade was wrapped around a wooden tube with some sort of interior spring mechanism. It should not be difficult to substitute the windows shade with a net. There are modern shade cloths that function in the same manner, but a little more intricate. The biggest problem I see with the idea is how to suspend it, since  you do not have a window frame to mount it in. Another idea would be the old motion picture screens that would roll up inside a cylinder.  Like the ones used in High Schools in the fifties. OTOH, tinkering with this idea would probably cost more than simply buying a commercial one.

[Lo Chavernac]

Thank you guys. The product I found on you tube is called Golf ripin : 

Have you heard about someone using this product?

[dennyjones]

Very cool..

[Hacker James]

1 hour ago, Lo Chavernac said:

Thank you guys. The product I found on you tube is called Golf ripin : 

Have you heard about someone using this product?

Yep, just like the movie screens used in High School. In this case, easily suspended from the ceiling. I had a little trouble locating the web site with order details, but the unit sells at North of $1,000  choices of white net, black net, extra long net for ceilings higher than ten feet. Looks like net by itself is around $249 then add that to cost of the entire unit and shipping and you are as high as $1289.

Edited April 14, 2017 by Hacker James

[rehmwa]

Pretty lady in the ad.  It looks way too stiff to have much of a net life (suspect the replacement net is still very expensive.) and that stiffness looks like a disaster in containing the balls after impact.  Looser is better, even it appears less tidy at first.

Absolutely ridiculous to spend anything north of about $50 on something like a simple net to catch balls.  Mine was $20 plus a blanket/tarp.  I could make it pretty for less than $100 - even motorized.

" If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy "  Red Green

 

 

Certainly no one every makes an account just for free drive by advertising.  But if they did, wouldn't this be a great opportunity to offer a couple through the Sandtrap for people to product review?  Or become a sponsor to the site.  Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Yeah, that would be neat.

Edited April 14, 2017 by rehmwa

[Hacker James]

41 minutes ago, rehmwa said:

Pretty lady in the ad.  It looks way too stiff to have much of a net life (suspect the replacement net is still very expensive.) and that stiffness looks like a disaster in containing the balls after impact.  Looser is better, even it appears less tidy at first.

Absolutely ridiculous to spend anything north of about $50 on something like a simple net to catch balls.  Mine was $20 plus a blanket/tarp.  I could make it pretty for less than $100 - even motorized.

Certainly no one every makes an account just for free drive by advertising. 

One of my earlier versions of a net set up incorporated the use of heavy shade cloth. The balls would bounce off readily. Once to the side and over the roof of the house! I even managed to drive a perfect "hole" clean through the shade cloth with driver. Since then I use archery net. Nothing gets through.

I also could not help but notice, the videos and advertising site are in Orlando as is the OP. Whether or not they are an actual (paying) sponsor, I do not know, and really none of my business..

[rehmwa]

Same here, when I weighted down the bottom of the net (it just looked tidier) I took a 5i strike right through the net, you can see the hole in the wall left of the electrical outlet.  Now I let it flex (leave a lot of excess on the floor and unconstrained) and the balls are gathered gently and deposited on the bottom without any bounce - it's also quieter.

Edited April 14, 2017 by rehmwa