I just wondered if you hung onto boots as long as you hang onto bikes -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
well, none of my other shoes feel tighter than they used to, including my MX boots which are older than the Vertebras.
A furlong by a chain - a furlong (furrow length) or 10 chains is the length an ox can pull a plough before needing a rest and an acre is the amount of land it would be expected to plough in a day. Lots of saxon strip fields about still around the UK that are pretty much that size.
I'm glad I read these posts when I find gems like this. I'd no idea where the measurements for an acre came from or why it was such a fucking odd number of sq.ft. I know my sister recently bought 40 acres and it looks like a fair sized plot, but knowing why an acre IS an acre makes me appreiciate JUST howe big her recent purchase is. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
I hope your sister also bought at least two strong oxen, otherwise it'll take forever to plough her proparteh. Geo
That actually depends on whether we're using an imperial or a metric ox. An imperial ox would indeed need 40 days whereas a metric ox would need slightly longer, as 1 POP[1]= 1.01387 BS[2]. One might also have to take the mad-cow disease uncertainty factor into account, that however would make the calculation far too complex and anyhow, an ox sprinting through an acre of land while foaming through its mouth and quacking like a duck should be dismissed as non-standard. Geo [1] Plough ox-power [2] Bullenstarke (unkastriert)
Fucking hell, that's going back innit? You know when you've been Wurzled. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
