Topic: What size plot?

[plainleaf]

500 square meter = 19.768 351 297 square perch

[Eristic]

500 square meter = 19.768 351 297 square perch

This is wrong.

There is no such thing as square perch.

The Rod, Perch or pole is a land measurement that can refer either to linear or square measure and has to be interpreted. You should already know that.

You can, though, have a plot measuring 1 perch square, this being a square with all sides of length 1 perch to give an area of 1 perch. Get it? (I thought not.)

[Digeroo]

The rod perch and pole are a bit archaic.  I am not clear why allotments are still measured in poles, presume it is just to maintain a sense of history and show independence from the rules of the EU. 

Long time no posting Eristic.  Nice to see you back on board.

[Unwashed]

500 square meter = 19.768 351 297 square perch

This is wrong.

There is no such thing as square perch.

Of course you can have a square perch - how do you suppose they make fish fingers that shape.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I have 600 square yards, 20 poles, with hedges. It's a massive job, and not many people really manage to cultivate the whole plot. It's perfectly true that people used to feed their families off plots that size. It's easy to see how people might have become reliant on a particularly heavy yielding potato variety, hence the potato famines when blight arrived.

[saddad]

500 square meter = 19.768 351 297 square perch

This is wrong.

There is no such thing as square perch.

Of course you can have a square perch - how do you suppose they make fish fingers that shape.

I'm sorry.... but I think that's a load of pollocks...  ;D ;D ;D ;D (Sorry I'll get my coat!)

[Trevor_D]

Sounds a bit fishy to me too - but it cod have been worse!

[saddad]

We'll all be floundering around for bad puns now...

[chriscross1966]

Ummm... it's not 40 poles.... 10 poles is a sixth of an acre

10 poles is a sixteenth of an acre.  160 poles to the acre, 1/4 acre == 40 poles.

My bad.... incorrect info .... sorry...

[1066]

all sounds like a load of Pollacks to me................. I've already got my coat on!!

nice to see you around Eristic  :)

[Pescador]

This thread seems to have lost its sole, so let's skate over it, and go to a better plaice

[cobnut]

Oh dearie me  ;D

[grannyjanny]

Cobnut, now you know what you've let yourself in for ;) ;D.