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Anchor Chain Report
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:29:41 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:56:35 -0400, "Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote: But am I missing something? I always thought a shot was 90 feet. It has ****all to do with boating, but there is a unit of measure known as a chain. Composed of one hundred links, it is 66 feet long, or four rods, or one tenth of a furlong. Used for land surveying by guys like George Washington. More than a century after adoption of the steel tape, guys were calling them chains. Some guys still refer to the process of measurement as chaining, even when done electronically. Casady It was used, or at least mentioned later then that. I remember my granddad talking about rods and chains. I think he said that a proper road was 1 rod wide. And certainly he shot deer that were a "chain" away, and sometimes further :-) Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:56:35 -0400, "Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote: But am I missing something? I always thought a shot was 90 feet. It has ****all to do with boating, but there is a unit of measure known as a chain. Composed of one hundred links, it is 66 feet long, or four rods, or one tenth of a furlong. Used for land surveying by guys like George Washington. More than a century after adoption of the steel tape, guys were calling them chains. Some guys still refer to the process of measurement as chaining, even when done electronically. Casady Spoken like a true land lubber. I stand by my original statement: A shot is 90 feet. (This was in reply to DSK who said he got a "shot" that was actually 40 feet.) And what's with mining 7 year old posts? Its not going to bring back the good old days! |
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