Barbed Wire

[j-penry]

Just curious, was it made in China?

[gc]

> Just curious, was it made in China?

lol….good one.

But if it were made in China, don’t you think they would have said 79.535 rods?

[snoop]

> I went to Tractor Supply today to buy some barbed wire. The length of wire on the tag said 80 rods. I had to explain to the clerk.

i just graduate college, i don’t get it.

[holy-cow]

No. No. They meant to say “roods”.

[chan-geplease]

> No. No. They meant to say “roods”.

…and it is a frunny way to measure rarbed wire

[bill93]

Educate me – what is the significance of the number 79.535 rods? “80 rod” spools aren’t intentionally a few feet short are they?

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[stephen-ward]

400 meters = 79.535 rods

Edit: Sort of like the soda bottle on my desk…..16.9 fl oz (1.06 pt) 500 mL

[GregShoultsRPLS]

I’ve taught youngsters in the field for several years that if section corner or ¼ corner hunting down a fence line to look for ends of wire rolls, where it’s tied together, may not be exact, but it’s a good place to start looking.

[ridge]

So are you doing a section breakdown or what?

[carl-b-correll]

> I went to Tractor Supply today to buy some barbed wire. The length of wire on the tag said 80 rods. I had to explain to the clerk.

What a bunch of overthinkers we got here…

I got what you meant. But, I think you left out the middle part of the conversation like “what’s a rod? Why is it stated like that? How long is a rod?” and things like that.

Carl

[gc]

Bill93

Stephen is exactly right of what I was implying with my poor attempt at a joke. 😉

[gc]

Carl, I think most the guys here ‘got it’ and were making a joke of their own…..