Post #9968

This post is just for people using the mesasurement system that faked sending men to the moon. You SI people will roll your eyes I'm fencing and my rule is a post every 12ft or less. I've got to span a distance of 159ft... so 159 divided by 12ft between posts is 13.25. Lets round that UP to 14. I need 14 posts in the run. Now lets start over... 158ft / 14 posts in the run is 11.35ft . So space them about every 11 feet... what about the 0.35 portion? multiply that by 12 inches in a foot and you get 4.28inches. Good enough, call it 4 inches. So we should space the posts out at 11'4". In metric we'd space the posts at 3.5m and divide the run by 3.5.... and we'd already be putting posts in the ground. In the above example, the run is 48.6m / 3.5m gives us 13.88posts, round up to 14.... 48.6m/14posts = 3.47m between posts. done. By now I'm sure all the SI people are laughing the asses off. To my American brothers and sisters, gosh metric is too difficult.