G. Frady wrote: "A chain usually had 100 links. One link equaled 7.92 inches. A chain was 66 ft long or 4 poles. Poles were also called rods or perches. They were 16.5 ft long." REPLY: thanks for the definition on the length of a chain. My reference calls this the "Gunter's chain" with no mention of who Gunter was. There is also a reference to a less common chain of 100 links called the "engineer's chain" each one foot long. I have no idea where that is used. Lee Ramsey Lee Ramsey > > "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to > see." > --- Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965 > > > --part1_122.11e5a014.2a26f617_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-path: <Boggit@aol.com> > From: Boggit@aol.com > Full-name: Boggit > Message-ID: <9d.2895d910.2a26f4c8@aol.com> > Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:21:44 EDT > Subject: Re: [NCMECKLE-L] "Chain bearers" > To: beryla@mindspring.com > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 > > They carried the chains during surveying i.e. measured the survey line. A > chain usually had 100 links. One link equaled 7.92 inches. A chain was 66 > ft long or 4 poles. Poles were also called rods or perches. They were 16.5 > ft long. > G. Frady > > "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to > see." > --- Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965 > > > --part1_122.11e5a014.2a26f617_boundary-- > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >