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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2006, 05:38:39 am »
A tally is 330' which I think is the outside measurements of a football field past the goal posts. I normally tell people that 1 tally is about hundred yards.  Loggers can relate to yards quite well.  I finally noticed in the catalogs that 330' tapes are being made.  Why did it take so long?

100 and 10 yards wouldn't it be? ;) Closer to 100 metres. ;D

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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2006, 03:37:20 pm »
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100 and 10 yards wouldn't it be?  Closer to 100 metres.

Yepper SD, but met(re) talk in the woods is right up there with floating a lead ballon.   "Just over a hundred yards" is what I actually say.

Jayfed being content that the first bug hatch is over though the deer flies are getting a bit too perky with the warmth returning.


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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2006, 04:06:00 pm »
Deer flies yesterday were horrid. Today....not a sign of any. DOn't know what happened.  ::)

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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2006, 11:29:16 pm »
Did you have a change in the weather? 

The weather always seems to prove to be the biggest 'bugger' for the little ones.  Humidity / temperture / cloud cover and to some extent the breeze of course.

The one advantage to have a way too hot day in our northern hardwoods is that the mosqutoes are heat overloaded even in the shade and the black flies aren't too fond of it either.  The ticks and deer flies , however, love the drier heat.
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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2006, 04:25:58 am »
Actualy the same weather as the day before. But, I was in a different area 10 miles away. But still, it was in the woods.  ;D In hardwoods I don't notice black flies much and the mosquitos are present under the canopy, but if it's a dry hardwood site I get alot of blo-flies and not many biting bugs. Out in the open hot sun the deer flies can get forocious. When you go up Tobique, all the above don't apply, even the birds are predatory on humid blood. Oh wait, those are mosquitos. Every yard up there has a smudge pot. ;D :D

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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #25 on: July 19, 2006, 11:12:23 pm »
Do the deer flies follow your truck mirrors down the woods roads?  This generally indicates how crappy the deer flies will be for the day.

Another observation: It seems that each day only a set amount of deer flies will bother you if you are in the woods (not on the roads).   Killing the 2-3 that are bothering you brings another 2-3 - all day unless the weather changes.  Smacking the 5-6 that are bothering you will  send a request out for another 5-6. At which point the ear plugs are put in.

But, if you stop moving, soon there will likely be none bothering you. Must be that motion thing. If 'it' moves like a deer ...
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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2006, 04:41:32 am »
 :D :D :D

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Do the deer flies follow your truck mirrors down the woods roads?  This generally indicates how crappy the deer flies will be for the day.

Yup, just one of'm present indicates how crappy the day will be.  :D

I think you are right as in the number of flies at you at any one time, but as the first ones get their fill the next available recruit rushes in. :D

I've noticed in the garden, onlye one of them deer flies will come colliding and crawling on ya, swat that and only one more comes by for a try at it. :D

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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #27 on: August 17, 2006, 10:07:42 pm »

"Multiply length times width in chains, then divide by 10.  You now have the acres of that field.  Ex;  you've paced off a field that is 6 chains long by 4 chains wide.  6 x 4 = 32 square chains."

Okay........, I was making a joke here...., then forgot to come back to this thread to follow up with it.  ::) Did everybody miss this math mistake or was everybody just being polite by not pointing it out???

Figuring acres like that, I thought I'd at least be asked to sell land for somebody.  ;D  Good profit in selling more land than you have......
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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #28 on: August 17, 2006, 10:28:48 pm »
I had forgotten about it, thinking that someone would speak up. 

But then, as we were being our 'normal' selves, we knew what you meant and were being 'polite'   ;D
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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2006, 04:09:58 am »
 :-X

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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #30 on: August 18, 2006, 06:44:40 pm »
I wasn 't going to say anything.   I was the one that asked the questions.  :D :D
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Re: What is a chain?
« Reply #31 on: August 19, 2006, 12:52:47 pm »

Just what I figured....., a bunch of polite people are on this Board.   ;D

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