Thursday, 11 August 2011

Fencing

ERECT , MAINTAIN AND MONITOR WILDLIFE FENCES

Plan carefully before you put up the fence
  • Place boundary bar cons where the fence must be put up 
  • The area must be cleaned and the ground level must be leveled out
  • When you plan the fence make sure the fence is in a straight line and that if there is a ' kopie ' you can go around it
Putting up a fence.
  • Folding fences must be put at a river crossing
  • If you put up a fence make sure that you put in the stud poles in at least every 300 meters and the y standards every 20 meters and droppers every 1 - 2 meters
  • The stud poles must be in the ground , the depth is different according to the tipe of soil
Monitor fences

  • Make sure that regular fence checking are done
  • Report all the places a fence is broken
  • Nabouring farms are alerted for checking fences
Maintain a fence

  • A fence is prepared that reach the standers
  • Rivers are to prepare require standards 
You get 4 tips of wire

  • Steel wire ( this is the strongest tipe of wire and are used for the long horizontal strings on a fence)
  • Binding wire ( this wire is used to tie the steel wire to the stud pole , y standards and the droppers)
  • Thorned wire ( this tipe of wire has little thorn shaped pieces on the wire to keep small animals in , this tipe of wire is normally used at the bottom half of a wire or on a cattle fence
  • Mesh wire ( this tipe of wire are used to keep small game inside the farm)



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