[AT] Supposedly why our old tractors are not metric and a fairly simple tutorial

[Indiana Robinson]

I'm not sure how accurate this story is but it matches what I had read for
years.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/04/12/metric-system-usa/

If they had listened to Jefferson we would  not be messing with a double
system, metrics would just be what we use...  The 10 based system can be
done in  your head (could have saved all those years learning those damned
fractions)  :-)  and every tool box wouldn't have a fraction to decimal
conversion chart tucked in somewhere that you can't ever find when you need
it. Also we would not have to worry about some dead kings thumb size
getting lost or a bad few years for the barley crop or a lot of other stuff
they tried to set as standards long ago.

This site looks fairly well done and I liked the little section on the
metric size of a few common objects.
https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Centimeters?fbclid=IwAR1z77b9GTGRpTD7TM1cH51LA1CKzsTyPJ-n87HsRDmbJv7b5ME7QyCVpbs

If you have forgotten how to use your Abacus there is a section on that
too.  :-)


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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