The only references I have seen to horses was to transport supplies & equipment.Never heard of any attempt to chain while mounted on a horse and c...

Every chain I have ever seen includes the handles in the measurement. If you get a chain and count the links you will find you are 2 short unless you...

putting on the popcorn and pulling up a chair....Because Texans are never wrong and those from OK are always wrong!;-)

DaveI'm not looking to argue with a Texan about the length of a Vara (I accept 33 1/3 inch after 1836), but the reason they needed to standardize was ...

The generally accepted method of chaining was to chain as level as possible. So on flat or moderately sloping ground (5' in 33') the chainmen would c...

KentI have been told there are a whole lot of different varas - perhaps as many as 20-30 have been recognized.

Parcel areas>DaveThat picture looks like my office. Except it's 2 walls upstairs and another wall in the basement.

What manual?I didn't know we had any instructions to go by. So much for all my mentors over the last 42 years! 🙂

See it all the time:Acre is obvious160 rods/poles/perches = 1 acre (obviously these are square measures)1 rood = 40 rods or 1/4 acreSo we'll see thin...

I use the preview bubbles on a regular basis. I like being able to read only a new comment rather than the entire thread which I may have already see...

Tim Kent....tells stories from his younger days of setting section corners in Alaska using rods 25' or longer. Then going back years later and findin...

Time for me to be contraryOne of the things that I harp about in my Ethics workshops that I teach is people doing work that they are not qualified to ...

Here's the real Purple CowThere used to be an ice cream stand outside of Waynesboro, VA, called "The Purple Cow"

I don't know this for a fact, but it sounds like the onboard battery to maintain memory may have died. Hence all the internal memories are wiped. I ...