Digit":17qtszkb said:How long do they keep it up for?
The old English ACRE was not a fixed area, it was the amount of land that the standard plough rig of the area could manage in a working day and varied according to how difficult the land was.
Digit":2g5vb28n said:Mind you Victorian my foot! It wasn't that much different when I were a lad.
I have to say the producers expect a heck of lot from some of their victims. That chap ploughing behind a horse, normally a lad would have had some years leading the horse before he could expect to become a plough man, this poor chap gets 'horse ploughing in five easy lessons!'
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