Question: I want to build my own house using locally available stone instead of bricks, but I am not sure how to mix the cement. Can you help, please? Yours is a good idea. The mixture that you need for building purposes consists of 4 parts of building sand to 1…
This steel-shod jack makes it possible to pull out fence poles without causing them to bend. Part-time cattle farmer, Andries Smit of Klerksdorp in the North West province of South Africa, decided last year to revamp the camps for his herd of about 130 cattle at Eleazer, his 800 ha…
After Piet Schutte of the farm Moabsvelden, near Delmas in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa got a contract on tender to roll up old telephone lines for his own use, he decided to build a wire roller to save labour and time. His wire roller can also dig holes…
Farmers, the easiest way to learn to run a broiler farm is to "borrow" with your eyes. Find out how to do things by looking at how other farmers are doing it. Here we have an 11 minute long video that shows you how a proper broiler operations works in…
Perrie Botha’s farm boasts neat fences around his camps and he’s been converting old fuel tanks into water troughs for many years, but it’s the cylindrical water tank on the back of his pick-up truck that attracts the most attention. The cylindrical water tank, with a capacity of 18 litres,…
When it comes to generating your own electricity, there are numerous possibilities. What should you choose? Two experts say the emphasis should be on affordability and practicality. Because of southern Africa’s climate, photovoltaic electricity generation (solar power) is almost always the first type of alternative energy which people consider. Wind…
