wild life center ( Slag )

8 April 2011

This morning we went to put out mineral blocks at the different places like the springbok flats and the makhato area and ssb  where it needed to be placed
we also took amipor and poured it into the Duncan applicators ..after lunch we went to the wild life center to

 go and do some slaughtering of two animals that was sick and one that was already dead and had a broken leg....  it was a nice experience to see how to slaughter and to have a chance to do it yourself .we also had to cut all of the meat of the bones ..so that they can feed the smaller animals

Resource Gaurdianship

WEEK 1 - 21 February - 24 February 2011

21/02/11
This is the starting week of our resource guardianship course.Today we went to fix a fence that has broken near the caravan park,and also put in new Y-standers in between the fence ,Sieg then came and helped us and he also learned us a lot about the different  types of fences and different types of wire like :

• Bush veld fence
• Bonox fence
• Binding wire
• Steel wire

We also worked with new equipment such as a Wire puller  and gripples .

22/02/11
We needed to go to the 400 hector ground behind the wild life center to go and repair some of the fences that is hanging and that have snapped..we also painted the poles  that the wires are tied to .this prevents the poles from further rusting and breaking..

23/02/11

this morning we were told that we are going to go and fix fence .so we thought it will be just a few wires .but when we got there the whole fence was down and the Y-Standers and droppers was broken..Sieg came and told us what the cause was for the wire being broken so bad ,and pulled out of the ground .It was giraffes that walked through and over the fence.They wrecked the whole fence.it happened near the Louis Erasmus farm and also near Siegs farm.
We used a wire puller to pull the fence closer to each other and then by using a gripple we connected the wire to each other ..we also used a 90 degree method which is where you take a wire puller and pull the wire closer then take the broken wire and just place a new wire next to it .by then holding it with  pliers and turning the two points in a 90 degree direction one point upwards and the other one downwards. after this is done you take the wire puller off and the fence would be tight enough and strong enough again..

24/02/11

this morning we were just in the python class .busy discussing our unit standards and then unpacking them .to see what we will have to do in the unit standards and what we are going to learn..
like fencing methods example:

• 90 degree method
• gripple method
• binding wire to the droppers etc.