The spread of my hand, with fingers outstretched, is about 8.5” fingertip-to-fingertip. I recently was furniture shopping and I measured a table using my hand as a reference. The young sales clerk was astonished. He said he had never seen anyone measure that way. I told him I had my hand with me always and so could run up a quick “ballpark” measurement whenever I needed.
Younguns!
Yup. My hand is about 8”.
Simple, traditional things we learned or discovered for ourselves when our heads weren’t buried in smartphones and such.
My hand measures exactly 9” so I can quickly measure something. Four hand spans are 36” = one yard.
This has been very useful over the years.
My hand measures exactly 9” so I can quickly measure something. Four hand spans are 36” = one yard.
This has been very useful over the years.
If what I want to measure is pretty big, I also use cubits, as in, "six cubits and a span".