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
- 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
- Make sure that regular fence checking are done
- Report all the places a fence is broken
- Nabouring farms are alerted for checking fences
- A fence is prepared that reach the standers
- Rivers are to prepare require standards
- 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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