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Offline sijomon

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Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« on: August 08, 2011, 02:48:11 PM »
Just been checking on wiki-know-it-all-pedia and;

An acre is one furlong by one chain, or one furlong by four rods, or 10 square chains, hence;

A furlong is 10 chains and a chain is 4 rods

So there you go ;)
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2011, 03:33:41 PM »
 ???
What possible use is that at 40m ?

you forgot to work it out for us to understand easily- 
a chain = 66 feet (Gunters)
and a rod = 16.25 feet
and a furlong = 660 feet or 10 chains or 40 rods

so in laymans terms -
1 acre is 43560 sq feet or 4047 sq meters
or 660 feet x 66 feet
Now I can visualise an acre.
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2011, 07:01:40 PM »
eh  ??? ::)
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2011, 10:11:38 PM »
Sorry JT, Nick forgot to point out that an acre is 4,840 square yards. Hopefully that clears up any lingering concerns you may have regarding these extremely valuable units of measure.
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2011, 10:51:49 PM »
i under stand all this , but one little thing /  is a rod a fly fishing rod or a carp rod or a sea rod  and the chain you can get any length from B,Q
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2011, 10:54:39 PM »
Since a Rod is the same as a Pole and a Perch - the last of these is a hint that it must be a fishing rod, Mick.
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2011, 07:49:41 AM »
On the other hand....... a nuclear fuel rod is around 4m long.
So there are approx 50 Uranium rods to a furlong.

Regarding Micks B&Q chain comment... the minimum you can buy is 1m.
So there are 20.11 B&Q chains to a Gunter Chain.

This is getting very silly
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2011, 06:13:16 PM »
tell you wot lets stick to diving  ;D
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Re: Rods, chains, furlongs and acres
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2011, 07:21:19 PM »
eh !!! :( ??? :-[
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