As I was reading the January, 1843 report by the Coast Survey, I??m sure most of us have a PDF of that, I found this exchange; pg 11/12. No love for the foot:
111. Question. Are the measures in the survey taken in French metres ? If so, why?
Answer. Yes, because it is the only absolute standard; but the results are given in yards and metres both.
112. Question. In what parts of yards?
Answer. In decimal parts only.
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I noticed in the USC&GS reports circa 1895, the only statute units were miles. No feet, no yard, no ?ÿFahrenheit. Just m, cm, mm, km, and C.?ÿ
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1877 report?ÿ
??..The unit of length in which the linear measures are expressed is the "committee metre," the property of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. It is one of the original metres remitted by the French Committee of the year VII to .Mr. Tralles, who gave it to Mr. Hassler, and by whom it was brought to America in 1805 and presented to the Philosophical Society.
I've always kind of laughed at the multiples of ten logic.?ÿ If you use math regularly and something like multiples of ten would be life-changing for you.. I can't help but think that maybe you're in the wrong line of work.
Also, metric would be cool if one of its units was about a foot long.?ÿ Same with an inch.?ÿ Have you noticed how many times you're sitting around and it's like.. damn, my frosty beverage is about a foot out of my reach.?ÿ Or, hang that picture 1 inch to the right and it'll look perfect!?ÿ There is something to be said for units that are just very convenient.
??I measured all the lines.?
?did you measure in feet or meters??
?yes, of course. Maybe I don??t understand the question.?
In a few parts of East Texas the French used arpents, 191.831 feet.
I have only seen a couple of deeds that used arpents and they were along the Texas and Lousiana boundary near the Cass County and Marion County line.
Let??s go Metric they said, It??ll be fun they said...?ÿ?ÿ
They forgot to add the "ky" after fun.
One of my old mentors, E. C. Lenhart, said to me, that, "Meters are for those across the ocean".
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He also stated, that, "Inches are for whores and carpenters".?ÿ
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I've never really understood why inches are for "whores" or why people need to repeat it. It seems like a vulgar reference. If you feel the urge to explain it just stop. Derogatory terms for women with multiple sex partners like tart, floozy, tramp, hooker, hussy and trollop are just as offensive.?ÿ?ÿ
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Wait a second... is the vara metric or imperial? ???¦?ÿ
#TEXAS
From Spanish measurement of a cordel being 50 varas, it is now a Texas thing...........
"The Texas vara?ÿwas legally set at 33???? inches in Article 5730, Acts of?ÿ1919?ÿ(revised?ÿ1925), effective?ÿJune 17, 1919"
https://www.sizes.com/units/vara_texas.htm
I was hoping someone would??ve commented on the receipt of the metre bar in the ??French year year VII?.
Lots of interesting posts, but no real logical argument to not convert to metric versus the international foot.?ÿ Anyone ??.
Unfortunately the international foot is different than the US Survey foot. But there’s only 1 meter.
The US tried before, mostly with the age group of people on this forum saying how easy it is to switch, but it failed. I think the logic would be, it was tried once and it didnt work.
In today’s election if world, feet meters are not a big issue. IMO my EDM doesn’t measure in feet or meters, it measured in wavelength of a base freq. the ft or m part is on me.
construction staking is a whole nuther thing.
I was raised on feet, because the generation before me could not handle the switch to meters, now that same group is telling me how easy the switch would be, and I am to lazy to learn meters.
They are too lazy to learn feet.
The same can be said for carpenters and architects that do not want to learn tenths of a foot.
Bill Waldon added to the problem with package and product manipulation that went from a quart or gallon of something that cost x dollars to a similar looking package that holds less and costs the same.
What's the problem with metric??ÿ ?ÿ We're surveyors, we can measure in anything, poles/ perches, varas, smoots, chains, links, even feet and meters....
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Sam Walton, perhaps?
Oh, I remember. The metric system was supposed to be easy .. on .. someone .. Why were we doing this again ??
Exactly, ty
Metric is certainly the more utilitarian system of measurement, but I'm not sure that's a good enough reason to switch.?ÿ There is an elegance in having a system of measurement that conforms to the natural world.?ÿ One foot = one foot, one stride = one yard.?ÿ It's always easy to dismiss things like elegance or internalization, that can't be easily be quantified, but my vote is to wait to switch to Metric once the US ceases to be the greatest source of human productivity in known history.?ÿ?ÿ