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
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.
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