• prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    For those of us that regularly plow large tracts of land using manual tools, this is an extremely useful unit. Anyways, if that isn’t a usual activity for you, an acre is an area of 10 square chains, or roughly an area 1 mile long and 8 feet wide.

    • droans@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      1 mile long and 8 feet wide.

      That might be accurate but that’s like the worst way to imagine the area.

      You could have just said about 220 feet in each direction.