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Re: How long is a Chain?
- Subject: Re: How long is a Chain?
- From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:39:46 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail,aus.rail.models
- Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd.
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:27:37 +1100, "Ben O'Regan"
<ben@NOSPAMFORemiratespark.com.au> wrote:
>OK,
>
>I know how long a piece of string is, but how long is a chain?
>
>I've got a conversion table explaining inches, feet, yards, rods, furlongs,
>miles and leagues but not chains.
>
>(I recall that surveyors used chains that were 100 something long while
>engineers used chains that were 100 something else long).
>
>From recollection, 1 chain is about 20 metres. Therefore I work out that a
>chain is 65'6" (taking 1m = 39.37", 20m = 784.4'( /12) = 65.5' or more
>correctly, 65'6"). Somehow this doesn't seem right.
>
>Please help, I'm a metricated baby!!!
>
>Ben :)
>
You were very close.
It's the length of a cricket pitch - 1 chain=22 yards=66 feet
Gee, I thought everyone knew that!
Les Brown