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| lordedmond:
what about a rod , pole or perch , a bushel a chain is easy its the distance between three wooden rods with two bits on top the same at the other end then some people in white come out and do a rain dance :D |
| mattinker:
A chain is 22yards, the length of a cricket pitch |
| mklotz:
Aren't bathroom scales in the UK still calibrated in stones? Stones always seemed such a perfect unit for the folks who built Stonehenge. My favorite unit has always been the perch. It evokes a mental picture of crazed, Monty Pythonesque, rag-clad peasants madly measuring a field with an enormous fish [named Wanda, no doubt}. The acre, supposedly the area of land a man could plow in a day, was 40 perch long and 4 perch wide. |
| mattinker:
--- Quote from: lordedmond on November 09, 2012, 11:02:17 AM ---what about a rod , pole or perch , a bushel a chain is easy its the distance between three wooden rods with two bits on top the same at the other end then some people in white come out and do a rain dance :D --- End quote --- Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the uptake some times! Didn't get you 'till the third time I read it! |
| lordedmond:
Sorry about that its a warped Derbyshire Engineer's humour Stuart |
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