Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Non-Cattle Specific Topics
Every Thing Else Board
Fence
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1847550" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>80 rods (traditionally) in a roll of barbed wire, which is also 1320 ft (1/4 mile).</p><p>Just be glad ya never had to build a fence off a survey that was in Spanish Varas. I did. Varas differed greatly depending where you were located even in the US Southwest, but in Texas, as late as 1919, the official length of a Vara (by law) was 33 1/3 inches per Vara. The US supreme court in 1870 got involved because of the immense size of many of the properties in NM, Ariz and Calif that becaume US property after the Mexican/American war and ruled that all Varas in the US would be pegged to the Texas Vara and that too caused a lot of grief and more than one gunfight and range war broke out because the ruling meant some older families lost land as they were originally laid out by the old Mexican Vara which was larger/longer than the Texas Vara.. When your ranch is many thousands of (sq acres) the inches add up..</p><p></p><p>There all kinds of smaller measurements within the Vara, and most are related to the width or length of a finger. </p><p></p><p>A Vara is not just the word for a length, it's also the term for the length of wood or iron that is used to measure the Vara. Mexican <em>varas</em> are graduated in tenths on one side. One of the tenths is subdivided into 10 <em>centesimos</em> (hundredths), and one <em>centesimo</em> is further subdivided into 10 thousandths. The other side shows division of the <em>vara</em> into one-half, one-third, one-fourth, one-sixth and one-eighth. The one-sixth section is divided into "pulgadas" (Spanish inches). <em>Pulgar</em> is the word for "thumb" in Spanish, and thus the inch roughly corresponds to the length of the first thumb bone.</p><p></p><p>There is another finger-derived gradation as well. The <em>varas</em> are also divided into "dedos," a unit I had never heard of before, which means "fingers." A <em>dedo</em> is a "standard fingerwidth"; one <em>vara</em> equals 48 <em>dedos</em>. This means that a <em>dedo</em> is approximately 17.45 millimeters or (0.69 inch).</p><p></p><p>Now you know more about Varas than you probably ever wanted to know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1847550, member: 18945"] 80 rods (traditionally) in a roll of barbed wire, which is also 1320 ft (1/4 mile). Just be glad ya never had to build a fence off a survey that was in Spanish Varas. I did. Varas differed greatly depending where you were located even in the US Southwest, but in Texas, as late as 1919, the official length of a Vara (by law) was 33 1/3 inches per Vara. The US supreme court in 1870 got involved because of the immense size of many of the properties in NM, Ariz and Calif that becaume US property after the Mexican/American war and ruled that all Varas in the US would be pegged to the Texas Vara and that too caused a lot of grief and more than one gunfight and range war broke out because the ruling meant some older families lost land as they were originally laid out by the old Mexican Vara which was larger/longer than the Texas Vara.. When your ranch is many thousands of (sq acres) the inches add up.. There all kinds of smaller measurements within the Vara, and most are related to the width or length of a finger. A Vara is not just the word for a length, it's also the term for the length of wood or iron that is used to measure the Vara. Mexican [I]varas[/I] are graduated in tenths on one side. One of the tenths is subdivided into 10 [I]centesimos[/I] (hundredths), and one [I]centesimo[/I] is further subdivided into 10 thousandths. The other side shows division of the [I]vara[/I] into one-half, one-third, one-fourth, one-sixth and one-eighth. The one-sixth section is divided into "pulgadas" (Spanish inches). [I]Pulgar[/I] is the word for "thumb" in Spanish, and thus the inch roughly corresponds to the length of the first thumb bone. There is another finger-derived gradation as well. The [I]varas[/I] are also divided into "dedos," a unit I had never heard of before, which means "fingers." A [I]dedo[/I] is a "standard fingerwidth"; one [I]vara[/I] equals 48 [I]dedos[/I]. This means that a [I]dedo[/I] is approximately 17.45 millimeters or (0.69 inch). Now you know more about Varas than you probably ever wanted to know. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Non-Cattle Specific Topics
Every Thing Else Board
Fence
Top