My wife (taking some interweb trivia quiz) just asked me, how many furlongs in a mile? ?ÿI said, I don??t know, is that a nautical term? ?ÿThen I looked it up, nope, that is a surveying term.
??pretend that I pasted a wiki link here??
I'm guessing you're not a horse racing fan.
I hate to admit ignorance of it too.?ÿ It's definitely something I'm surprised I didn't.?ÿ?ÿ
That said, I probably won't ever need or use it
A furlong (furrow long) was the length a good ox could pull a plow before resting (10 chains). It could plow that length by a chain wide in a day, and that is an acre.
If you look at some aerial photos in rural England you can still see the outline of fields in strips of about those dimensions.
Everybody knows it's 10 chains. ?????ÿ
That's the only reason I know it, for some reason the question came up years ago and 10 chains has stuck in my brain since. 1/8 mile.?ÿ
@mightymoe yup 660??
Well... there's always?ÿ Varas to fall back on too.... ???? ?????ÿ
(hey Brad, I thought it was a vacation you got in the military)????.. ????ÿ
@rick-taylor My first though as well.?ÿ I broke my leg in the field in 1992 and spent my couple of months on workman's comp at the track.
For some reason I knew that as a little kid, like when I was eight years old.
Old English measurements are my (as the kid's say) "jam".
I thought for sure there was a furlong conversion in the appendix of my old Kara Co. field book but nope. Tons of useful information there, but no furlongs.?ÿ
Having been educated in the Midwest, I was familiar with the term "smoke length". Ironically enough... this is not a term used in California ?????ÿPerhaps here it should be referred to as "bowl length", and it would be a much longer distance.
Funny clip, but he wouldn't be happy about that order of magnitude for his fuel economy.
@james-fleming Old English measurements? I've long wanted to have a nook of land, or if fortune really smiled upon me, then a hide of land. If a hide isn't available, then a bovate of land would be a nice fallback (although it might be argued that a bovate is more of a Danish than an English unit).
Used to work with an ex-artillery spotter as my i-man.?ÿ I never could cotton to his use of the term "klicks".?ÿ I doubt if he even knew what a furlong was.
PS - We had a Wild T2 in the closet that with an inverted image and the circle was in grads and mils.?ÿ He wanted to use it so bad.?ÿ I never would let him put it in the truck.
660'
International or us ft?
What's the csf?
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@bill93 "Burgage" and "lathe" are new ones for me!
Fur long.?ÿ
Depends on the cat. Long fur is about 1".
Short fur is 1/2".
Shire is cold in here. Yeah, but not fur long, this wood is dry.
Is she happy? Well, not fur long!.
Waitll she wakes up!
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Check your auto's speed in furlongs per fortnight.