Author Topic: So now I'm a hectare... (Read 8159 times)

Admin aka Dan · « **Reply #20 on:** September 10, 2006, 23:04:16 »

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 10, 2006, 22:57:12

A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.

Phew!

Roy Bham UK · « **Reply #21 on:** September 10, 2006, 23:33:06 »

:o Enough to make your eyes water :o

Curryandchips · « **Reply #22 on:** September 10, 2006, 23:52:15 »

It is nice to see recognition of both imperial and metric systems ... well I think so anyway. :D

Spruance · « **Reply #23 on:** September 11, 2006, 10:09:38 »

Quote from: Curry on September 10, 2006, 23:52:15

It is nice to see recognition of both imperial and metric systems ... well I think so anyway. :D

Hi Curry,

Yes, I suppose metric has to get a look in somewhere, but by rights, all you top-rankers should be square miles! ;)

moonbells · « **Reply #24 on:** September 11, 2006, 13:52:43 »

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 10, 2006, 22:57:12

A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.

Thanks!
That's weird. I read something the other day that had them the other way round, and I very carefully read it thinking about the new designations here.

They obviously got it wrong - now all I have to do is remember which site it was so I can email them!!!

moonbells

redimp · « **Reply #25 on:** September 11, 2006, 22:43:35 »

You could give 'em a righ good hectaring mb ;D

cambourne7 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 13, 2006, 23:58:24 »

I have a plot approx 38ft by 98ft whats that then?

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #27 on:** September 14, 2006, 12:06:44 »

3 724 square feet, which roughly equates to a lot of digging. To be precise, 0.085 acre, or 13.68 perch.

Heldi · « **Reply #28 on:** September 14, 2006, 13:12:15 »

my head hurts

Curryandchips · « **Reply #29 on:** September 14, 2006, 13:15:32 »

Now isn't that a coincidence ... :D

Yellow Petals · « **Reply #30 on:** September 14, 2006, 18:12:26 »

Quote from: Heldi on September 14, 2006, 13:12:15

my head hurts

LOLOL

cambourne7 · « **Reply #31 on:** September 14, 2006, 23:19:47 »

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 14, 2006, 12:06:44

3 724 square feet, which roughly equates to a lot of digging. To be precise, 0.085 acre, or 13.68 perch.

OK so how do i add that to my profile?

ACE · « **Reply #32 on:** September 22, 2006, 19:57:51 »

Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on September 06, 2006, 21:47:08

I think I'd like to be a path ::)

I need a path through my long grass, pehaps you would like to come and lie down in it ;D

nippie · « **Reply #33 on:** September 22, 2006, 20:08:12 »

Funny I just noticed I'm a quarter acre and I started that old Wurzle song .. "Combined Harvester" when I remember that actually says 40 acres, oh well I got a long way to go yet ::) ;D

Georgie · « **Reply #34 on:** September 22, 2006, 21:04:15 »

..which for some reason put me in mind of that old corny song, Lucille, and the commonly misheard second line of the chorus:

' You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille'

'With four hundred children and a crop in the field.'

;D

G x

Kepouros · « **Reply #35 on:** September 22, 2006, 21:52:48 »

But why do the poor hectares have to be defined on the basis of measurements which Napoleon and his scientists (being French) got wrong in the first place. The metre was supposed to be 1/10^7 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator going via Paris. As neither old Boney nor any of his scientists had ever been to the north Pole or had any but the vaguest idea where it was the whole thing was a b-lls up anyway and the metre is NOT 1/10^7 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator via Paris

But that`s what the Eu insists we must do - base all our future measurements on a french b-lls up.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #36 on:** September 22, 2006, 22:37:21 »

That's because Boney conquered Europe.

Kepouros · « **Reply #37 on:** September 23, 2006, 16:27:00 »

And who conquered Boney!

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #38 on:** September 23, 2006, 18:02:19 »

He forgot that Russia is more than just the European bit!

Kepouros · « **Reply #39 on:** September 23, 2006, 20:46:42 »

Didn`t hear of any Russians (European or otherwise) at Waterloo. But then they didn`t fight him anyway - just set the place on fire, ran away and hid until he ran out of supplies and went home again. No Stalingrad in those days.

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Author Topic: So now I'm a hectare... (Read 8159 times)

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