Hay fulcher
The Heuklafter had a Swiss measure two meanings. Once it was a measure of length, the other time it was a measure of volume.
Measure of length
The hay fulcher (French Toise pour de foin ) was a measure of length in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel .
- 1 hay fulcher = 6 land feet = 1.75955 meters
- 1 common fathom , toise cummune = 10 land feet = 2.93258 meters
- Lucerne : 1 wooden and hay cord = 139.13 Parisian lines = 314 millimeters
The land foot is to be set at 130 Parisian lines or 0.293258 meters.
Volume measure
Even as a volume measure of the term was used and in the canton of Solothurn was
- 1 hay fathom, also work fathom = 6 feet wide, high and long = 216 cubic feet = 6,155 cubic meters
Deviations:
- Aarwangen : 1 hay fathom = 6 × 6 × 2.5–3 feet
- Burgdorf : 1 hay fulcher = 6 × 6 × 3.5 feet
- Cheeks : 1 hay fathom = 6 × 6 × 3–3.5 feet
- Bipp : 1 hay fulcher = 6 × 5 × 3.5 feet
- Langenthal : 1 hay fulcher = 6 × 5 × 3.5 feet
literature
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios of government bonds, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading venues. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, 1851, p. 729.
- Gustav Adolph Jahn : Dictionary of applied mathematics. Volume 2, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 331.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Tuor: Old measure and weight in Oberaargau . P. 11.