measuring land

marathon

how many square yards in an acre and what is best way to measure a field roughly? if i step out two sides of field and multiply them together would that give me an acurate measurement

Count Mondego

this is the best way


http://acme.com/planimeter/

an acre is 69 yards X 69 yards.

onyerbikepat

You can also go onto www.landdirect.ie and highlight the field. If it's a parcel on it's own the area will be given.

ford 5600

4840 sq yards in an acre. Seemingly some phones have Apps on them , but that is a bit beyond me! You could do it with a measuring wheel either. Does anyone know what the calculations for that way are ?

delaney001

marathon wrote: »

how many square yards in an acre and what is best way to measure a field roughly? if i step out two sides of field and multiply them together would that give me an acurate measurement

Need to be roughly square. Otherwise it'll be wrong. If it's not square, try and break it roughly into 2 areas. One main square and probably a triangle. Measure the square as you've described above. Then measure the triangle bit, half the base by the height add 2 areas together.

marathon

cheers it was square field so wasnt too hard

Miname

Try daft logic really easy to use and pretty accurate.

ganmo

i use http://www.freemaptools.com/area-calculator.htm

djmc

Area calculator in Google play store is a free app
And is fairly accurate to measure any shape field

marathon

tanx all advice greatly appreciated

Chemical Byrne

marathon wrote: »

how many square yards in an acre and what is best way to measure a field roughly? if i step out two sides of field and multiply them together would that give me an acurate measurement

No, not by any stretch unless you have a consisten step and the field is very near rectangular.

The easiest way is to download google earth, zoom to your field and use the ruler tool to divide the field into a series of triangles that cover the full area. Get the length of the vertices using the ruler tool, selecting whatever units suit you. Calculate the area of each triangle and add them. Simples. If you want to pay for goolge earth plus there is a tool to directly measure areas.

Another option is if your field has had the same boundaries for many many years the old OSi maps have arceages marked on them. Go to http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,652191,668504,6,9 and zoom to your field.

marathon

cheers chemical thats exactly what i needed