A MEASURE OF SUCCESS
Hand tools, including hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, and tape measures, remain as essential on the farm today as they have been for decades. As much as farming has changed in the last 150 years, though, the use of these tools has not.
Tape measures have been used to measure land for fields, pens, and lots; lay out structures; and measure construction materials, depth of postholes, and length and diameter of bolts and rods. They’ve even been used to measure the girth of livestock to determine live weight.
Fairly Recent Development
The first written mention of a cased tape measure was in 1838, in England, when Charles White was sentenced to the penal colony in Australia for the theft of a measuring tape wound in a metal case.
Ancient Romans measured with a marked strip of leather. When we think of a tape measure today, we think of a metal
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