Hectares vs Acres - Useful Visual Guide

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VSS said:
I have a free field measuring app on my phone. It's very handy. I can walk around the perimeter of a bit of land, and it will tell me the area in acres or hectares.
It can also be used for distance measuring, for example when setting out targets at 100m, 150m, 200m etc.
Can also measure distances on screen, so for example if you're sitting in a highseat you can use it to range key landscape features (such as the edge of a wood, or a prominent tree, or an angle in a fenceline) which is all handy knowledge to have when a deer pops out in front.
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That sounds good, what app is that please?
 
VSS said:
I have a free field measuring app on my phone. It's very handy. I can walk around the perimeter of a bit of land, and it will tell me the area in acres or hectares.
It can also be used for distance measuring, for example when setting out targets at 100m, 150m, 200m etc.
Can also measure distances on screen, so for example if you're sitting in a highseat you can use it to range key landscape features (such as the edge of a wood, or a prominent tree, or an angle in a fenceline) which is all handy knowledge to have when a deer pops out in front.
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Must be done.by some programmed form of Simpson's rule. Or an area enclosed by a trigonometrically closed traverse.
 
VSS said:
I have a free field measuring app on my phone. It's very handy. I can walk around the perimeter of a bit of land, and it will tell me the area in acres or hectares.
It can also be used for distance measuring, for example when setting out targets at 100m, 150m, 200m etc.
Can also measure distances on screen, so for example if you're sitting in a highseat you can use it to range key landscape features (such as the edge of a wood, or a prominent tree, or an angle in a fenceline) which is all handy knowledge to have when a deer pops out in front.
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Ffs the fields I walked around Essex with a wheel working out very rough areas (I imagine fairly incorrectly too) for iacs payments. How the world has changed.
 
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countrryboy said:
I'm a bit young for that.
I can mind the older forestry boys on about it.
They used to get paid by the chain cleaning forest drains out by hand with rutters and hawks.
Men were men is those days.

Is a chain 22yds?

I always thought a furlong was either 12 or 16 chains.
10 does not ring a bell but I don't really know.

How many furlongs to a mile?

Makes u wonder wot drugs who ever came up with the imperial system was on.
Absolutely no similarities between inches 12, feet 3, yards 22, furlong, mile
And ur weights are another completely random numbers.
Ozs, lbs, stones, underweight, T
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Yup. 1 chain is 22 yds - same as a cricket crease I think
 
Essexsussex said:
Ffs the fields I walked around Essex with a wheel working out very rough areas (I imagine fairly incorrectly too) for iacs payments. How the world has changed.
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I think I'm right in saying some top end tractors will work it out themselves.

I think u drive the boundry, u can then push some buttons and it will actually drive/ steer itself up and down the field at the correct distance, say for spreading fert.
No missing bits or overlap.
Bloody amazing really but be a nightmare in 7 or 10yrs time on the 2nd hand tractor market.
A lot to break.
 
Useful if you visually need to compare 1 acre to 1 hectare when deciding whether to buy a ride or or self propelling mower for sure 👌
 
Google Earth now has an area measuring tool. You simply put a series of dots around a field, farm, wood etc and it gives you the area of the enclosed dots.
 
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