Glenn Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 There is a difference between the 3.28083333333 US survey feet per meter, and the 3.28083989501 International feet per meter can make a difference. While this should not make a lot of difference of small projects, it could affect large projects. Whether you embrace the new foot or not, the old foot will be obsolete as of Jan. 1, 2023, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency within the Department of Commerce with the authority to fix weights and measures for the U.S. Reference NYT Article Reference Civilgeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 What is the reasoning supporting this? Can you summarize? I can't read until later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 For one foot the distance is small. For marge distances of land measurements, the little bits add up. (think miles) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 There goes the royal cubit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirerabbit Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I hate that it has come to placing one foot in front of the other. T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Put one foot in front of the other And soon you'll be walking 'cross the floor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 So now I will have one right foot and one wrong foot? Always put the best foot forward, unless one is kicking fresh lava? Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 My place was surveyed by chain & rod measurements. Now when anyone on my property lines has a survey done I loose a foot or so on two sides. I'm not so sure that GPS is that more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 The property stakes should remain in place. The gain or loss should be due to conversation of chains, rods, to other measures. The rod or perch or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool and unit of length of various historical definitions, often between 3 and 8 meters. In modern US customary units it is defined as 16 1⁄2 US survey feet, equal to exactly 1⁄320 of a surveyor's mile, or a quarter of a surveyor's chain, and is approximately 5.0292 meters. The rod is useful as a unit of length because whole number multiples of it can form one acre of square measure. The chain is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards). It is subdivided into 100 links or 4 rods. There are 10 chains in a furlong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Pedro Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Always use .3048 exactly (or the inverse) to convert meters to international feet but be sure to check with your juristiction. Some local control networks are still in US survey feet and some even in NAVD29. !! Arizona state plain switched to international feet years ago but some indian tribes still use the survey foot. All gps data is metric of course I have seen descriptions in rods, poles, chains and varas but not one described by smokes yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 When I was working in the violin repair business, all the instruments were measured in inches, but the work itself was done in millimeters. Sometimes when an exceptionally high degree of precision was required, we'd go by the thick side, the thin side, or the middle of the line on the ruler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Pedro Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 I am fascinated with metrology especially distances. We turned down a job to set monuments in the floor of a chip manufacture plant because we could not guaranty one millimeter accuracy (horz and vert) I told my boss that no one could check it either. Last I heard the facility never used those monuments as their technology was obsolete before the factory was finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvil Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Measuring is a trip. I'm as fascinated with precise measurements as a blacksmith as you are at cosmic measurements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Pedro Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 More cadastral than cosmic but I know what you mean :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 On 8/2/2021 at 8:49 AM, Rojo Pedro said: but not one described by smokes yet. We used Little Kings beer bottles to build a club house when i was a teenager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 5 hours ago, BillyBones said: We used Little Kings beer bottles The little tiny ones? I'm asking because when I was a teenager they made them in sizes from 7 oz all the way up to a big 64oz jug. My uncle used to work at the Hudepohl Schoenling brewery. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 The small ones. Came in 8 packs. 8 will make you great! I got the Hudepohl commemorative cans from the '75 and '76 world series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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