The document provides instructions for applying a frame to a tibia. It lists the necessary equipment including posts, wires, olive wires, pins and x-rays. It describes determining the ring size and placing reference wires parallel to the bone, then the proximal ring, middle ring, and calcaneal wire and half pin. It emphasizes the importance of reference wires at the knee and ankle and keeping rods and wires parallel to the bone crest and joints. Safety zones for placement of rings and wires are noted.