58Skylane wrote:
Heck....$439.00 is not too bad

Great googly moogly...

For $439.00, I'd be headed to REI to buy 50 feet of 1" tubular webbing. Grab a stout needle for your sewing machine and build a rudimentary mesh with loops on 4 corners. Attach at the harness attach points in the rear carry though and the rear seat attach points in the rear door post with carabiners. Of course, if you're paying for an STC that is another deal altogether.

The cargo net idea is good, but since I don't stack too high in the back, I usually just use some motorcycle tie downs in an X pattern across my load to some cargo clamps on the seat rails.

58Skylane wrote:

bmurrish wrote:Does Shortfielder has that same brand of cargo net in his plane, do you know?

He does. Shortfielder is the one who gave Bill the contact info on this.

1SeventyZ wrote:...For $439.00, I'd be headed to REI...

Actually, I have a quality bungee-mesh net from REI which they sell for Yakima/ Thule car racks. Carabiners were included. Not reliable protection for a worst-case scenario, but good for sealing off the sleeping bag and pad in the extended baggage, or for keeping a load in the second row from shifting or collapsing during normal ops.

1SeventyZ wrote:

58Skylane wrote:
Heck....$439.00 is not too bad

Great googly moogly...

Damn Z.....I about fell out of my chair

1SeventyZ wrote:sewing machine

What the hell is that?? Come on, I'm a guy, most of us guy's don't have that can of a thingamagig

Here's one of my mottos, "hope for he best, prepare for the worst, the life you save, may be your own"

58Skylane wrote:

1SeventyZ wrote:Great googly moogly...

Damn Z.....I about fell out of my chair

You remember that Snickers commercial where the old guy paints the end zone and misspells "Chiefs" as "Chefs"?? I love that one.

Man, a sewing machine can be the handiest tool in the house. I can't tell you how many socks, gloves, and pairs of underwear I've patched up in 2 minutes.

I was recently looking for a cargo net for the Maule. Had no luck finding one that was constructed specific to the Maule. What I did find was lots of expensive netting that may have worked. Being the cheap type, I bought 100 yards of webbing and some heavy duty upholstry thread and started stitching. Thought it would only take a few hours. Over 300 intersections to sew, one inch square plus cross corner to corner for each intersection. Used about 80 yards of the 100 yard spool of webbing and 3.5 spools of thread. Took me many hours. Finished net is football shaped but with square ends. Wider in the middle allows net to be pulled down around the load on the sides. Corners attach with carabeners to the cargo tie downs. Net is big enough to cover a load that fills the back of the maule from the pilots seats to the rear bulkhead. It also can be shrunk down to about 60% that size if you only have cargo in one of the loading areas. Would I do it again, probably not. It took too long. $400 would have covered my time at about $4/hour so the store bought net may be a better deal. The only thing I don't like about the floor to ceiling net right behind the pilots it that if you do auger in, the stuff in the back gets a running start from your aft bulkhead to the net at whatever your impact speed is. Having the ability to keep everything cynched to the floor makes me feel a little better.

Anyone know whether Mountain Wave Aviation is still in business? The phone numbers on their website are both disconnected.
Thanks,
Greg

You might try this.
[email protected]
This is an email address I've had for them for a few years. Worth a shot.
Good luck, they are nice nets. Business must be good. He seems to be gone alot, I would expect, particularly this time of year.
Gary

I have a cargo net/web rope bag that holds lots of items that I hang from my rear seat belt shoulder harness anchors so it hangs behind the rear seats. It is as wide as my interior. I just push on it and it swings back up out of the way when getting at other things in the cargo area behind it. It could be anchored at the bottom to be used as a cargo hold for keeping pillows and sleeping bags from coming forward. I got it at pawn shop, it appeared to be new from someone's car hatchback storage area. Borrow someone's hatchback.

Thanks, Shortfielder. I tried sending the email, but it just bounced back. Dang - those nets looked good too!

Here is a link to their website that seems to still work. The nets are high quality and do the job.

http://mountainwaveaviation.com/

Yes, the website is up, but the phone numbers are disconnected numbers. Was hoping someone from around McCall might know if he is still in business and how to contact him.

PM sent. Hope it helps.
Gary

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Genuine- ... ccessories

Thinking of getting one of these, What do you think

Or this http://www.cargocatch.com/truck-cargo-net.html

Tim

Thanks to Shortfielder, a friend of Mark McConnel's told me that he is traveling but she will see whether they are still going to make their great cargo nets when they return.

Zane wrote:.....Man, a sewing machine can be the handiest tool in the house. I can't tell you how many socks, gloves, and pairs of underwear I've patched up in 2 minutes.

A sewing machine is a necesity when you blow out your underwear.... and they're your only pair. Some of us run low overhead operations, you know.

Now we know why the future Mrs. Zane loves him.
Do you do windows too?

G2Gorder wrote:Yes, the website is up, but the phone numbers are disconnected numbers. Was hoping someone from around McCall might know if he is still in business and how to contact him.

I tried contacting Mark last summer when I was passing through McCall. Spoke with his Mother, or Mother -in-law, on the phone.

He was gone "sailing", for an extended period of time. Long story short. Mark eventually called back and left a message on my cell saying, more or less, he was NOT making any more cargo nets at the moment. However, he did leave the door open for next summer when he got back home, possibly, if the demand was there and he felt like it.