Originally Posted by AmyDavid (Post 8114897)

Nope - they are written as follows:

Start at the Northeast corner of Highway 7. Walk 52 paces north to Miss so and so's land..:eek:

We asked and asked our realtor if this was really what we should have had and he said yes. We found out after we could have asked the sellers to provide a boundary map. However using the crappy walk this and then that way thing, the well they are drilling is on our land.

We will see next week. We have always said we would get a boundary plan done, this probably just means it get's brought forward a bit!

Originally Posted by CaptainHook (Post 8115521)

The problem with individuals measuring by their own paces is that those with longer legs have a longer pace than those with shorter legs.

Originally Posted by Alan2005 (Post 8115597)

Is that so?

Originally Posted by AmyDavid (Post 8115623)

I wonder what happens for those of us with one long leg and one short leg?

Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 8115642)

you'll be watching that well over your shoulder as you go around in circles ;)

Originally Posted by CaptainHook (Post 8115521)

According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia :p, a pace is exactly 1.48m or 58.1 inches.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 8115650)

That cannot be so. Obviously in metric it'll be some weird number so 1.48 is as good as any other random metriced thingy but in measurements it has to make sense, it'll be some exact number of feet.

Originally Posted by CaptainHook (Post 8115656)

According to the link, it was apparently standardised as 5 Roman feet. I guess Roman legs were shorter in those days.

Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy (Post 8116111)

I'm confused, are we using their legs or their feet to measure????


Perhaps we should use their hands? spans? members?

Originally Posted by CaptainHook (Post 8115521)

According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia :p, a pace is exactly 1.48m or 58.1 inches. Fifty-two paces would total 76.96 metres or 3021.2 inches/251 feet + 9.2 inches.

The problem with individuals measuring by their own paces is that those with longer legs have a longer pace than those with shorter legs.

Originally Posted by cov-canuck (Post 8116599)

OK, I know I'm short, but I would have to leap to do 1.48m in a single pace - I thought a pace was a single striding step, the only way to get 1.48m would be to do two huge steps for me.

Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 8116130)

Coffee keyboard moment - we could have a whole new unit of measurement - the peni. Now what shall we set it at 5,6,7,8 inches maybe more?

Gees if we go by Roman times then in 1700 years the peni will have increased in size - now wheres that time machine...................

Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon (Post 8117860)

PMSL!! now Mands would that be a man's inch or a lades inch??

Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy (Post 8117947)

A mans inch of course

Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon (Post 8118017)

yeah right . . . .it was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis big!!!