--part1_122.11e5a014.2a26f617_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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--