[Sca-cooks] Measurement query for European members

[ruadh]

caution -- this "chain" may not be legal, based on the SCA "slumpy" Laws.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wanda Pease" <wandap at hevanet.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 12:11 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Measurement query for European members


> Gasp!  They made a CHAIN for our Gunthar!?  (Okay, so they tried to
disguise
> it with an alternate spelling!)
>
> Regina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Decker, Terry D.
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:02 PM
> To: 'sca-cooks at ansteorra.org'
> Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Measurement query for European members
>
>
> A chain is a survey instrument of 100 links measuring 66 feet.  It is also
> known as Gunter's chain.
>
> A similar engineering instrument measures 100 feet.
>
> It is also the unit of measure delimited by these instruments.
>
> A rod (or pole) is a linear measure of 16.5 feet or 5.5 yards and the
square
> of this same measure.  An acre is 160 square rods.
>
> IIRC, survey measures of acres, sections, etc. are not precisely square as
> the surveyor must allow for the convergence of curvature of the earth.
>
> Bear
>
>
> > Quiz: anyone out there actually know how long one
> > rod and one chain are? <grin>
> > (640 acres in a square mile. One acre is equal to a square
> > approximately 208.something feet on a side. You don't want
> > to know how many gallons there are in an acre-foot. I once
> > figured it out.)
> >
> > Alban
> >
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