"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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We grow strawberries, and the birds get a lot more than we do if we don't
net the beds. This year Karen built a raised strawberry bed about 3x10',
and she now wants to put bird netting over it. It has to be something you
can also take the netting off of so you can work on the bed, pick berries,
etc.

I was thinking of a sort of quonset hut arrangement with some long skinny
whippy bendy things bent into half-hoops over the bed, and we could just
lay the bird net over the frame. I was thinking of something like the
stuff they make mobile ham antennas out of. Only problem is I don't have a
clue where to buy it. Green bamboo would be nice too, if it will bend in a
3' diameter, doubt it would. I was thinking of heavy electrical wire, but
I don't have any, and 100' or so of say 6 gauge copper would run some
do-re-mi.

Ideas?

How about bare Aluminum Ground Wire
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...entPage=search ?

At $7/40' it's fairly cheap...