Quick question, how big is an acre?

[mojofilter]

how big is an acre?, in sq feet yards or metres?

cheers

stuarty

 

[bushwacker bob]

43,560 square feet

 

[Stew]

1 acre = 4 046.85642 m2

 

[bushwacker bob]

In concievable terms thats about 100m x 40m

 

[Gary]

100m x 40m would that be the size of a football pitch?

 

[boaty]

An acre is a chain by a furlong (22 yards by 220 yards) and is roughly the area of land that can be tilled by a man and an ox in one day

I find it's much easier to visualise a quantity when it's referred to normal, everyday activities...

 

[mojofilter]

Thanks :biggthump

 

[tenbears10]

An acre is a chain by a furlong (22 yards by 220 yards) and is roughly the area of land that can be tilled by a man and an ox in one day

I find it's much easier to visualise a quantity when it's referred to normal, everyday activities...

When was the last time you tilled an area with an ox Boaty? Normal everyday activity ):

Obviously I will be sitting here waiting for you to post a pic of you and your ox complete with till to make me look really stupid

Bill

 

[eraaij]

Behold the mighty Google calculator - it does conversions of all kinds too:

Just type in f.e. :

1 acre = ? sq meters

-Emile

 

[jakunen]

Kewel Tewel!!!:biggthump

 

[arctic hobo]

1/640 square mile

 

[boaty]

When was the last time you tilled an area with an ox Boaty? Normal everyday activity ):

Obviously I will be sitting here waiting for you to post a pic of you and your ox complete with till to make me look really stupid

Bill

Unfortunately my blue ox is laid up at the moment - anterior cruciate ligament trouble, but here's a picture of me and Flo

Sometimes after a hard day's work, she lets me hitch a ride

And here's a picture of us hitched to a "till" - normally we'd use a plough or a harrow, but you specifically asked for a till:

 

[tomtom]

:rolmao: :rolmao: ): :rolmao: :rolmao:

 

[Tantalus]

:claping::You_Rock_Boaty

Tant

 

[tenbears10]

Consider me looking stupid. Thanks for the effort on the pics though. ):

Bill

 

[jakunen]

Absolute classic!!!): :notworthy

 

[R-Bowskill]

Try 70 yards by 70 yards, whereas a hectare is 100m by 100m.

Or put another way it's 1% of a 100 acre field.

Visualising it isn't easy, like an acre of flat wheatfield is quite a bit smaller in appearance to an acre of woodland with steep gullies. That raises the question ...

On uneven ground is an acre larger or smaller on the ground than on the map? ie do you measure it as the surface lies or as a flat area? I don't know the answer to that one and it would definately be worth checking out before buying any land if it's not flat. Lawers would love that one.

 

[mojofilter]

Thanks all, I wanted to know because I have heard about 0.91 acres of woodland up for sale near me!