If you put... (dry stone walls question)

[Fnaar]

If you put all the dry stone walls in Great Britain together, would they be the equivalent of the Great Wall of China?

 

[green1]

no

 

[4F]

Yes

 

[Leodis]

Maybe

 

[Fnaar]

Great, thanks everyone, I am much clearer on this than I was just a while ago

 

[Haitch]

According to some sources, Britain has over 12,000 miles of dry stone walls and China has 5,500 miles of Great Wall.

 

[Fnaar]

According to some sources, Britain has over 12,000 miles of dry stone walls and China has 5,500 miles of Great Wall.

Excellent, thank you

 

[Beebo]

Excellent, thank you

But as I'm sure you know , length isnt everything, the girth has to be considered too.
The volume of rock in 5,5K of the great wall would far out weigh the 12K of drystone wall.

 

[Haitch]

That's just length, though, no account taken of height and thickness.

 

[Haitch]

But as I'm sure you know , length isnt everything, the girth has to be considered too.
The volume of rock in 5,5K of the great wall would far out weigh the 12K of drystone wall.

Beat me to it.

 

[Haitch]

But as I'm sure you know , length isnt everything.

If you want a double entendre, Fnaar will give you one.

 

[Fnaar]

But as I'm sure you know , length isnt everything, the girth has to be considered too.
The volume of rock in 5,5K of the great wall would far out weigh the 12K of drystone wall.

Damn. I was about to find some Chinese people to boast to.

 

[green1]

According to some sources, Britain has over 12,000 miles of dry stone walls and China has 5,500 miles of Great Wall.

the 5,500 miles China has are considerably taller and wider than our 12,000 miles.

 

[Fnaar]

Actually, I just googled it, and two reports (one from the Telegraph, so it must be true) report (drum roll...)

125,000 miles and 180,000 miles!

 

[Glow worm]

Years ago, I went on a dry stone wall building weekend near Harlech (mainly because a girl I was keen on was going on it). It was fun, but our group was hopeless and for every yard of wall repaired, we managed to knock down two .