Dike digger rod
The dike digger rod was one of the four rods permitted in Prussia . The Prussian length measure was only permissible in trench and dike construction, in stone bridge maintenance and similar work. The other three rods were the Culmian rod , Oletzkosche rod (as a chamber rod) and the Rhineland rod .
- 1 dike digger rod = 15 feet (1 Prussian = 0.314 meters) = 4.708 meters
- 4 dike digger rod (old) = 5 rods (1 Prussian. = 3.766 meters)
literature
- Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia . Volume 60, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1793, p. 834.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider: Pocket book of measure and weight. Friedrich August Herbig, Berlin 1839, p. 134.