Puzzled by a imperial tape measure

[Macaroon]

I think there's debate over most things in cricket

My father, as an Irishman trying to explain cricket to a very young and very puzzled Irish boy, said; "The English, not being a very spiritual people, invented cricket to teach their young men a sense of eternity"

Don't know where he got that one, but I've never forgotten it!

 

[John Fenna]

Rods, poles, perches - do they teach nothing in School these days?
Measurements that gained us an Empire as opposed to Jonny Frog's metric system that only gained them ...Hollande

 

[Blaidd]

5 1/2 yards also called a pole or perch ( as well as a rod, already mentioned). (Just for completeness

 

[British Red]

Although interestingly a rod can be length, area or volume!

 

[uncleboob]

Isn't a pole...or possibly a rod what they measure allotment sizes in?


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[British Red]

Yep - 10 (square) rods is a standard allotment

 

[santaman2000]

I think it might be for measuring cords of wood. No idea what it's called.

Those units are usually on a stiff, folding scale (similar to a carpenter's rule but scaled differently) rather than a tape tough. I remember my grandfather using those to scale the loads when he used to but pulpwood off the trucks.

 

[MartiniDave]

And don't forget the rood, which is 40 square rod. My old Dad used to talk in those units all the time.

 

[Humpback]

A naughty is 2.5 square roods😜


Alan

 

[oldtimer]

You make me feel very old. When I left school in 1959I started to learn surveying and chains and links were still being used.

I subsequently trained as a primary school teacher. The head of my first school where I started work in 1969 told me not to teach imperial measurements because the chnge to the metic system was imminent and he pointed out that the children would need to know only metric systems. Yesterday the young man at the aquatic supplies shop kindly converted my fishpond size from litres to gallons without being asked, and the hardware shop assistant told me a tarpaulin size in feet although the only marking was in centimetres.

It fascinates me how these old measurements have hung on despite the efforts of a whole generation of teachers.

Got to go now as I have to drive a couple of miles to meet a friend for a pint.

 

[MartiniDave]

Only yesterday one of our machinists asked me to order him a piece of 3 inch by inch and a quarter aluminium bar, 1 meter long. Made me shake my head and smile to myself!

 

[John Fenna]

My favourite knife is 4 1/2" long in 3mm steel ...

 

[santaman2000]

......It fascinates me how these old measurements have hung on despite the efforts of a whole generation of teachers.

Got to go now as I have to drive a couple of miles to meet a friend for a pint.

Wait until air traffic control assigns you FL250 for your altitude. It's still based on feet.

 

[Macaroon]

Wait until air traffic control assigns you FL250 for your altitude. It's still based on feet.

No oxygen fitted to car; Flight Level 250 is a no-no!

 

[santaman2000]

No oxygen fitted to car; Flight Level 250 is a no-no!

Aw go on and give it a try.