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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I suppose we could start a campaign for metric hands to be used for the heights of all creatures, including humans, not just horses.
(1 hand == 4 inches which is damn near 10 cm)
Hmm.. I'm 18 hands high.
I think we have about as much chance of this catching on as American starting to measure their weight in stones and pounds instead of just pounds.
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LOL., to this day, I can do a hands->US Feet conversion faster than almost anything else. :-) The top of my head is almost exactly 17.2hh and that is, coincidentally, exactly the height (17.2hh) of every horse that I've owned--or which has owned me--since I was 15, LOL.
Having reached that age in life where I just don't bounce the way I used to, I've retired from equine dare devilling, but...dang, those were the days.
Hitch