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10193. PelleNilsson - 7/5/2004 11:52:09 PM As most people know 40 perches is one rood, and 4 roods make up one acre. 10194. PelleNilsson - 7/5/2004 11:55:10 PM And 40 roods is one square furlong. 10195. Macnas - 7/6/2004 12:04:19 AM And one furlong is made up of 10 chains. 10196. judithathome - 7/6/2004 12:06:01 AM I thought roods were ladies' headpieces. ;-) 10197. Macnas - 7/6/2004 12:07:51 AM Of course, if we were using the old Irish units, then one perch would be equal to 7 yards, not 5 and a half yards. 10198. PelleNilsson - 7/6/2004 12:21:57 AM Of course. 10199. Macnas - 7/6/2004 12:28:16 AM Are there any particular Swedish units of measure? 10200. PelleNilsson - 7/6/2004 12:51:27 AM Not now but there have been of course. I have a manual on old measures comprising ca. 350 pages. A couple of them is actually featured on that site. A 'kappland' is 1/4 of a 'tunnland' = 1.22 acre. The measures indicate the areas that can be sown by a 'kappa' or 'tunna' of grain. They were originally variable depending on the nature of the soil but became fixed in the 17th century. 10201. PelleNilsson - 7/6/2004 12:52:24 AM Which would mean that one kappland is close to one rood. 10202. Macnas - 7/6/2004 1:19:35 AM My interest in units of measure stems from when a friend of mine spent some time in London working as a surveyor’s assistant, which has always been called a chainboy.
This of course harks back to the time when, instead of a measure staff, the assistant would hold the end of a surveying chain, which was used as a definite measuring device.
10203. Magoseph - 7/6/2004 1:27:50 AM Gee, you're working late today, Mac. 10204. PelleNilsson - 7/6/2004 1:31:57 AM Old measures are indeed intersting. Look for a somewhat weird story in the Slow thread tomorrow. 10205. Macnas - 7/6/2004 1:46:38 AM If I can I will, but it might have to wait until the weekend.
I'm offsite for the next three days, and I very much doubt I will be able to get online. So see you all in a few days time. 10206. Ulgine Barrows - 7/6/2004 1:17:49 PM I genuflect before my dad's old slide measure.
Tools are pleasurable.
(er, I re-read this before posting, that was not a nasty comment....the correct tool for the job, is how I honor my mom & dad...they taught me how to use my hands)
We were at my sister-in-law's house, she has a grand-daughter, yet is much younger than I.
The twists life takes.
We went tubing, and this boat has a serious passenger drench problem.
I got about a gallon of lake water in my purse, and it killed me cell phone. I am now lighting cigarettes off of matches that are mysteriously fused together in clumps of three, from the same incident. 10207. Ulgine Barrows - 7/6/2004 1:19:16 PM O, give up.
Nothing I say in real life comes out right, either.
10208. Ulgine Barrows - 7/6/2004 1:24:12 PM I mean to say, I am full of hope, and it's my wish that you are, as well. 10209. Ulgine Barrows - 7/6/2004 2:00:46 PM I'm not giving in an inch to fear
I knew those matches would dry
And they did. 10210. alistairConnor - 7/6/2004 5:38:07 PM What is tubing, and what sort of boat would that be?
Did the cell phone dry too? 10211. PelleNilsson - 7/6/2004 8:03:49 PM The weathermen tell us that so far this is the coldest summer we have had since 1928. 10212. wabbit - 7/6/2004 8:31:51 PM 
Tubing on the Delaware River.
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