Laying on the log you'll notice a stick with orange paint on the ends. There is also some orange paint in the middle. It is 4' long so we can mark 3 of the 16" cuts we wish to make. We've sometimes used just a 16" length which also works. It just depends upon what I break or lose as to what is used next for marking. We like the crayons and especially like to put them in the crayon holder which keeps them from breaking.
Forget all that conversion crap. My stove works best with 30cm wood, about a foot in the US but 30cm works here too. Any temperature over 25C is uncomfortable and over 30 is really ridiculous. We all know how big a 2 liter bottle is but refuse to measure anything else in liters. Why is that? Conversions are for people afraid to just use the metric numbers. When it comes to working on engines, all fasteners on modern machinery are metric and I can judge a 13mm nut at least as easily as a 1/2 inch one and I find a 17mm easier to judge than whatever that is in FPS units. Everyone knows a 2x4 is no way related to 2 or 4 inches but the equivalent in metric units would probably reflect real numbers and not fictions from 100 years ago when they started letting the lumber mills make boards undersized based on the excuse of needing to plane the finished product smooth. A real world 2x4 is less than 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches and who really believes they plane off over 1/2 inch of wood in both dimensions? My guess is that a 2x4 is made from rough sawn lumber that is no more than 1 3/4 x 3 3/4 even if you allow for the saw kerf. I may be considered a rebel here but FPS is for the birds. I will take MKS or CGS any day in its place.
Yep, a little over 2 quarts, about 1/2 a gallon. Nothing wrong with the metric system, it has advantages. I just don't need it crammed down my throat.
To confuse things a little US civil engineers and land surveyors measure in feet but not inches. We use tenths and hundredths of a foot. Decimals are so much easier than inches and fraction of inches.
Now I'm really confused I like the hillbilly method: Cut it to the size that fits If it's hot, remove some clothing, if it's cold, add clothing. ( and more wood) Drink enough so you're not thirsty. use vice grip & crescent wrenches & We understand acronyms like KISS, FHC, WTF, & LOL In Alaska we use USA $$ dollars LOL
I had a tape like that once. Was in feet & 1/10ths of a foot. 1' 8 was 1 foot 8/10ths . When I finally figured it out, I threw it as far as I could.
Why is the base meter 39.37 inches.? Sailors , aircraft & windspeed is measured in Knots. ? What about a "long ton." ? A Cubit (usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 cm). ) = My firewood if I don't use my bar jig.
It is not. That is a rough conversion unit. The meter is a number of discrete wavelengths of a particular light. Originally it was a specific fraction of the distance from a pole to the equator but that was hundreds of years ago. I am thinking it was 1/10000 of that distance per kilometer but it has been a long time since I was last in school.
