Saskatchewan, big whitetail country!!! | We have been metric my entire life, and I still find some of the us measurements easier to "get". Miles vs. km, gallons vs. litres. Pounds vs. kg, etc. Don't feel so badly. It simply is not all its cracked up to be for a rural guy. I think in inches and miles and gallons, and have to convert to understand what 43 cm of snow means in the real world. And seeing our land is measured in miles, I figure I will never fully, 100% convert. I sell my grain in bushels, some up here have captured the meaning of a tonne, but again, I must convert before it makes a whole lot of sense.
It just is not as simple as you seem to think.
The one metric measurement I do get, as in the numbers make sense to me without having to convert, is temperature, and to a small extent mm of rain. Other than that, as a young farmer, I still tell people to come here in miles, fill the tractors with gallons of fuel, farm by the acre, sell by the bushel, hunt by the yard, and measure lumber, my kids, and my bins in feet and inches.
Old habits die hard. REAL hard. |
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