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GENERAL TOPICS => Tall Tales => Topic started by: Delmonico on January 07, 2010, 06:49:39 PM
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Had a disscussion here at work the other day, kinda funny cause all the ones who think they are brillant have been wrong, if you think you know, think again before you answer, things might not be as they seem.
How many acres are there in a section of land?
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well I'll go ahead and say what everybody's thinking about 640 acres. ;D
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Are you also wanting the area that makes up the road allowance?
Around here originally, everything was surveyed without allowing room for roads. It all had to be re-surveyed to allow 33 feet (2 rods) for municipal roads on 3 sides. The grid system here run 2 miles North and South, then one mile East and West. An acre is 16 1/2 feet on the half mile, so that would give an extra 6 acres or so right?
646
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well I'll go ahead and say what everybody's thinking about 640 acres. ;D
Not always. But there is 640 acres in a square mile. ;)
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Are you also wanting the area that makes up the road allowance?
Around here originally, everything was surveyed without allowing room for roads. It all had to be re-surveyed to allow 33 feel (2 rods) for municipal roads on 3 sides. The grid system here run 2 miles North and South, then one mile East and West. An acre is 16 1/2 feet on the half mile, so that would give an extra 6 acres or so right?
646
Interesting, but once again you folks up north do things different. Around here the center of the road if there is one is the section line.
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A section of land is supposed to have 640 acres. It all depends on how worn the chain links were when they surveyed it.
Slim
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Interesting, but once again you folks up north do things different. Around here the center of the road if there is one is the section line.
Yeah, you're not kidding. Ummm, OK. Now we dig into the "trick answer bag."
-You don't bury survivors... nope, not it.
-A man walks on all fours in the morning of life, on two legs at noon, and uses a cane in the evening of his life. Not quite. That's Egpytian mythology.
-My name is Nobody! Oh wait, that's Homer's Odyessy.
-Fourty Two!.
-Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin!! Getting closer.
-I would have a dead neighbour and all six apples. Oh it's on the tip of my tongue.
-You have many friends who eagerly hope for your success. Left over fortune cookie... delicious.
That's it, I give up!
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well I'll go ahead and say what everybody's thinking about 640 acres. ;D
I was always under the impression, 640 acre= a square mile or one section. 160 acre equalled a quarter section what the Homesteaders act deeded
but I'd been wrong before
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It seems farther out there when you're on a tractor.
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I know the answer to this, but I'd be cheatin' to say....
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I know the answer to this, but I'd be cheatin' to say....
Slim is close.
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Slim is close.
Close but no Cee-Gar!
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I looked at several sites, and they all say 640 acres in a square mile. Your question was how many acres in a SECTION OF LAND. Nominally a section IS equivalent to a square mile in area, regardless of shape.
I believe that the law would give priority to the actual surveyed section, so the answer would depend on calculating the area of the section AS SURVEYED.
Having worked briefly in a land titles office, I've seen air photos of some really weird sections!
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I looked at several sites, and they all say 640 acres in a square mile. Your question was how many acres in a SECTION OF LAND. Nominally a section IS equivalent to a square mile in area, regardless of shape.
I believe that the law would give priority to the actual surveyed section, so the answer would depend on calculating the area of the section AS SURVEYED.
Having worked briefly in a land titles office, I've seen air photos of some really weird sections!
Bingo, The Wiki is pretty much on this time:
In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile, containing 640 acres (2.6 km²), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. Due to such things as survey errors, poor instrumentation, difficult terrain, and sloppy work by surveyors it is common for actual sections to differ from the PLSS ideal one square mile. The distortions and errors were, by design, distributed to the northern and western edges of each township. As a result the sections in these areas diverge the most from the ideal shape and size. In addition there was a need to regularly adjust the entire township grid to account for distortions caused by the curvature of the Earth and the convergence of meridians toward the poles. In places where the grid was corrected, or where two grids based on different principal meridians came together, section shapes are often highly warped. Despite the survey errors and flaws, once the grid was established it remained in force mainly because historical boundaries hold legal precedent over new surveys evidence.
Some of them out in the Sandhills are pretty off.
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The big question is how many belly achers on a section of land. As far as I can tell it's a pretty high number.
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The big question is how many belly achers on a section of land. As far as I can tell it's a pretty high number.
Out south of town on the 5-20 acre horse yuppie plots there is a lot. ;)
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Out south of town on the 5-20 acre horse yuppie plots there is a lot. ;)
Good thing they are doing the census this year.
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OK, another one, some of us old pharts get it right away, ain't hard, just think before you answer:
How many beans are there in a jar?
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Del, Does the OWS have any of those B Western shirts like you're wearing in the avatar? You've always been a "snappy" dresser!
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OK, another one, some of us old pharts get it right away, ain't hard, just think before you answer:
How many beans are there in a jar?
All of them.
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Del, Does the OWS have any of those B Western shirts like you're wearing in the avatar? You've always been a "snappy" dresser!
A few, 3-4 but they are all 2X and they are a hair small for me.
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All of them.
Now you are not taking this serious enough, the answer is a definate number. ;)
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Eating, Is about the only thing that Leo takes seriously.
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Eating, Is about the only thing that Leo takes seriously.
I'm surprised you don't know the answer Tex, you should if you think real hard. ;D
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OK, another one, some of us old pharts get it right away, ain't hard, just think before you answer:
How many beans are there in a jar?
NONE...after Trinity leaves. He may even take the jar and the pot the beans were cooked in.
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Good un forty. ;D
Since Del said a definate number you is prolly right.
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NONE...after Trinity leaves. He may even take the jar and the pot the beans were cooked in.
Good un forty. ;D
Since Del said a definate number you is prolly right.
Nope, can't believe know one knows this, 'sides if Trinty ate all them beans we would have problems with him, and I don't mean pharts. ;D
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1
since "all of them" is not going to be right and put this out of it's misery
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1
since "all of them" is not going to be right and put this out of it's misery
Still not right, I'm surprised at this group, thought I knew them better, geez, there are a 1000 beans in a jar, you know, beaners, white crosses, truckers friends or what ever you want to call them. 10 hundred lots in a jar. ;D
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so the number is larger than 1 :o ;D
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so the number is larger than 1 :o ;D
If you only got one you got ripped off.
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Nope, can't believe know one knows this, 'sides if Trinty ate all them beans we would have problems with him, and I don't mean pharts. ;D
Yeah, he'd prob'ly starve before we could get out of orbit and back on the ground.
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Yeah, he'd prob'ly starve before we could get out of orbit and back on the ground.
Could tie a string on him and win a kite flyin' contest. ;D
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That would be a sight to see.
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How long has it been Tex since someone mentioned a jar of speed. BTW a friend used to get it from a famous guy who played for the big N. ;D
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That stuff makes your teeth fall out!
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We have learned that Del knows alot about bennies. I am proud to have had no idea what he was talkin about.
Now if you had asked "how many suds in a half rack?" I coulda answered ya.
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Okay Leo, How suds are they? Inquiring minds wanna know!
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Here I sit,
all alone with a broken heart.
Took three bennies,
and my semi truck won't start.
Okay, easier question: name the song and artist.
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Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
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Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
That was quick. Knew there were som'a ya'll folks hangin' around. ;D But what's the song name? (trick question)
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Semi Truck.
And Pop, a half rack is a 12 pack of beer.
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Semi Truck.
I made the mistake of listenin' to it and now I can't get it outta my haid! ::)
Well I hauled my rig,
outta San Jose,
Better be in Cincinatti Monday mornin'
fo' I draw my pay...
do do da da do do dooo....
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Driving down a trucking road
Carrying an overweight load
Eating them bennies
like they were M&M's
I knew I'd been sitting to much
Because my foot on the pedal
and my foot on the clutch
Had taken root and started growing stems
I turned on the radio
just outside of Idaho
It played the same song
Till I got to Tennesee.
Name that tune and the group, if ya can, you are as warped as I am. ::)
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Leo, I thought you was talkin' about ribs! I was introduced to Commander Cody in about 1970 with their rendition of "Hotrod Lincoln". I found ASAW about a year or so later. I still have an 8 track of their first album.