Fancy tape measure????????????

[ferniesnow]

I got tired of walking up 27 steps today. It was the 24th time and I said BS. I wanted to cut a board 34 and a half inches and I forget my tape measure upstairs. I grabbed one that was sitting on a bench. Pulled it open and couldn't find 34 and a half inches. There was 2 ft. and 3 ft. and I figured out that 2' 5 was 30" but where was 34 and a half inches?? The owner of the tape laughed and I walked up the 27 steps one more time to get my tape.

Have you seen a tape measure like this one before????

 

[moyiesledhead]

Yup. Hate the damn things!

Wait a minute. NO! WTF? Those aren't inches! The ones I've attempted to use have 1 thru 11 between the foot marks.

 

[The big greasy]

I got tired of walking up 27 steps today. It was the 24th time and I said BS. I wanted to cut a board 34 and a half inches and I forget my tape measure upstairs. I grabbed one that was sitting on a bench. Pulled it open and couldn't find 34 and a half inches. There was 2 ft. and 3 ft. and I figured out that 2' 5 was 30" but where was 34 and a half inches?? The owner of the tape laughed and I walked up the 27 steps one more time to get my tape.

Have you seen a tape measure like this one before????

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i hate anything that has a speck of metric on it!

 

[Tchetek]

Yup. Hate the damn things!

Wait a minute. NO! WTF? Those aren't inches! The ones I've attempted to use have 1 thru 11 between the foot marks.

Wow. The new metric foot

 

[zal]

I got tired of walking up 27 steps today. It was the 24th time and I said BS. I wanted to cut a board 34 and a half inches and I forget my tape measure upstairs. I grabbed one that was sitting on a bench. Pulled it open and couldn't find 34 and a half inches. There was 2 ft. and 3 ft. and I figured out that 2' 5 was 30" but where was 34 and a half inches?? The owner of the tape laughed and I walked up the 27 steps one more time to get my tape.

Have you seen a tape measure like this one before????

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2’10” is 34”.
2’6”…30”.
No, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a tape measure like that.
Hope I never see another one like it.

 

[52weekbreak]

It is always my objective to use the same tape measure so I always have the same format to look at. As a fall back, I usually but four identical tapes at a time and keep one by the saw Sometimes that doesn't matter because by the time I arrive at the cutting area I have forgotten WTF the length was anyway. The extra cardio might be helpful in keeping you slim Doug. Whatcha buildin" now?

 

[Drty Ernie]

Do you remember where you bought it? My buddies birthday is coming up and that tape measure would look great in his tool box!! Ha

 

[Flapjack]

Pencils and tapes, buy lots. I need bigger numbers

 

[Mike270412]

Last I checked 12"=1' . Did something change?

 

[doorfx]

It’s a conspiracy to change the way we measure.

 

[ABMax24]

Is that a gag tape or an actual tool? Because that's what happens when some designer (in China) that has never used the imperial system designs a tape measure, they just assume a foot is broken up into 10 base increments instead of 12.

Try to look for a 1/4", an inch is broken up into tenths on that tape, instead of 8ths or 16ths.

Could've fooled them and used the metric side, wood work is the only time I use imperial, for most other things metric is easier.

 

[Flapjack]

Metric for big work too ?

Some guys are all metric w/woodworking, and torx.

 

[Flapjack]

I was going to give him a hard time but when he was young a tape measure was a stick or several sticks put together for longer measures.

Right Doug lol

 

[niner]

A engineers or surveyors tape is in 10 ths.

 

[Dawizman]

Engineers tape. It's in tenths and hundredth of a foot in one side and metric on the other side. No inches on that thing. I have rulers like that for drafting.

 

[Flapjack]

How about a slide rule, anybody know how to run one ? Dad had them around the house, idk how.

Engineering must've hurt before calculators.

 

[Dawizman]

34 and a half inches would be 2.875 feet.

 

[Flapjack]

Stop it lol

 

[maxwell]

A engineers or surveyors tape is in 10 ths.

Bingo, so now I guess we know who’s tape measure it is

 

[ctd]

Something only an engineer could/would come up with Ha! Very good thread, it explains why I could never understand those type of measurements......gawd. Over complicate something so the simpletons' like myself cannot figure it out