acre and hectare

[KennyB]

i can honestly say i dont know, what is the differance between a acre and a hectare

[shotgun666]

dont know you got me there

[JohnGalway]

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Edited September 3, 2009 by JohnGalway

[AndyCM]

You'd prefer a couple of hectares to a couple of AKERS

 

Find some conversion site - hectares are larger

[shotgun666]

spot on andy

[Baldrick]

1 hectare = 2.47 acres

 

2.471 acres to the hectare, John - you should know that!

 

Hectares are the metric system used throughout Europe, with acres now 'old money'. It's common practice to use both for farming and surveying work.

 

If it helps you to visualise things, 1 hectare is 100m x 100m square. 100 hectares is a square kilometre. An acre is about the size of a football pitch.

[KennyB]

thanks lads, you know your stuff baldrick

Edited August 11, 2009 by kenny5406

[Yorkshire Wildfowler]

******* foreign **** still use Acre's and £ s d in Yorkshire like all true English man should

 

Yorkshire First

English Second

British Third

and

NEVER EUROPEAN

[Psyxologos]

Martin, you are a true gentleman. Very well spoken, open minded, kind person. I bet you hate people who live on a street other than yours.

 

 

[henry d]

...... An acre is about the size of a football pitch.

 

That`s the way I was always taught it, thanks for that Balders

[JohnGalway]

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Edited September 3, 2009 by JohnGalway

[Yorkshire Wildfowler]

Martin, you are a true gentleman. Very well spoken, open minded, kind person. I bet you hate people who live on a street other than yours.

 

Take a instance dislike to every body it saves time later on :lol:

[Baldrick]

Yup I was still distraught over the sheep shooting game when I posted

 

I still know more than our Department of Agriculture though.

 

I suspect you know more than DEFRA does about farming too. In fact, by half-wit Labrador has a better grasp of the practicalities of modern agriculture than half of the shaved apes at DEFRA and the RPA.

[smig4373]

to visualise easily,an acre is about 70yds by 70yds roughly....4.840 square yds....

[mikee]

a full size footy pitch is almost 2 acres, 120 yards by 80

 

mikee

[dieseldogg]

Cept most of ours are 90 by 60, the older ones in yards the newer ones in metres

Ok

We got a wheen of bigger ones as well,

but hey we have recieved complaints from some of the footballers that the bigger pitch tires them out, too far to run

[alexr]

I like the idea of the 70 yards by 70 yards, I can actually visualize that, thanks.

 

Got to say the only football pitch I ever liked was the one 32" from corner to corner that sits in the corner of the living room on a saturday night. You know the one with that Linaker bloke on it.