cross-bindings

Updated: February 12, 2026

Blocks of sandstone, about four feet high and twelve inches square, are generally used for fencing uprights. Here, then, were lines ready made, and covering the country in every direction like network. The only thing necessary to isolate the wire was to walk along the fence, cut the cross-bindings connecting the upper wire with the lower ones, lay a cable under the gates, and there you were.

F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar - With Steyn and De Wet