Thread: How big is a perch?

Originally Posted by crump

No.

But an old cow cocky just walked past and I asked him and that was his answer.An easy way for you to find out is that most stock routes and laneways are 3 chain wide, so get out your tape measure and divide by 3. Should be heaps in your suburb.

Will have to wait till all the heffers clear off the track

22 Yards or 66 feet Glen

Originally Posted by Wortho

Why is the word Phonetic not spelt the way it sounds, and for that matter why is abbreviate such a long word!!>

Good one

Originally Posted by 84RR

22 Yards or 66 feet Glen

Thanks Gav

And why did the kamikaze pilots wear helmets

as an ex surveyor-I still remember the exact lenght of a chain in metres!
20.1168m so there u have it - and a chain is made up of 100 links-in the old days a chain was indeed a chain and a link a link. I am now a social worker.....................................work is not quite as prescise these days.............................................. .................................work that out

Originally Posted by edddo

as an ex surveyor-I still remember the exact lenght of a chain in metres!
20.1168m so there u have it - and a chain is made up of 100 links-in the old days a chain was indeed a chain and a link a link. I am now a social worker.....................................work is not quite as prescise these days.............................................. .................................work that out

Strictly a Gunter's chain. Edmund Gunter probably designed his chain for surveying the estates of the Duke of Bridgewater in about 1607, but it was not publicised until he published his first book in English (previously Latin) in 1623 -
"for plotting of ground, I hold it fit to use a chain of foure perches in length, divided into an hundred links". This became the standard land surveying measurement both in Britain and its colonies and in the United States, despite a strong push by the latter to adopt the metric system in the 1790s. The United States is the only place in theworld where it is still used as a unit of measurement, but the vast majority of the land divisions in Australia were done in chains.
John

To be sure but 1 Ramsden chain = 100 feet.

Some equally useful units of measurement include:

bee space = 6.5 millimeter

gnat's eye = 0.125 millimeter

and of course the:

bovate = 6 hectare