Putting up an entire new fence

Fun? I don't think so. But as usual there was lots to learn from this process. To start off with i was new at second year resource guardianship as i had been helping at the site guiding for the first month of this study year. Not that I'm complaining it just took some getting used to.
Across the road from Sondela(Over the highway) there is another piece of Sondela referred to as the Jag kamp(Hunting camp) this because it had been used for exactly that before they started the no hunting policy. It was in this camp that some buck probably Impala were fighting and this broke the fence.
Before we simply fix a fence we first assess if putting up a new section won't be a better option. As was with this fence due to the fact that it was rusted beyond recognition.
Wear and tear on wire happens for many reasons but i have found two common denominators-in the first place the 'bind draad' binding wire we use to attach the wire to the droppers and y-standards is of a poorer quality than the steel wire we use for the actual fencing. This means that this wire rusts more easily causing the better wire to corrode there where it is tied to the droppers.
The second reason is that fire can cause damage to the galvanizing on the steel wire and thus make it more susceptible to rusting with this awesome African weather.

Getting back to the point after finding it so rusted we wrote a report and a suggestion and gave this to Sig the head of conservation. He gave the go ahead and we started the following day.

All the wire had to be replaced and so also the 'stut pale' these we had to cement into the ground because they are the support for the whole fence. The cement has to stand for ten days before using the poles for support as they need to dry properly before the time. So instead of wasting ten days we used the already cemented pole that are there and tied the wire to them with the idea of attaching the wire to the new poles at a later stage. There is also a gate in this section that needed to be fixed so we took it off and sent it to the workshop to get fixed.

It was important for us to put up this fence with our First year students because it covered several of the U/S (Unit standards) that they need in order to receive their Qualification for Resource Guardianship level 2.