definitions

[19Walt93]

Guys probably expect me to chime in whenever someone talks about an extended cab Ranger or a Ford with posi- because niether exists.
I live on a dirt road in a town with no traffic lights, can someone tell me what a "block" is and if there is a standard size for a "city block", please? I can't imagine they're all the same size but on the news they use "block" to indicate distance.
If you ask someone here how far away something is, they're likely to tell you how long it will take to drive there because we have so few straight roads that distance is irrelivant.

 

[2011Supercab]

From 1st st to 2nd st is one block

I've always heard 12 blocks equals 1 mile.

 

[ericbphoto]

In towns and suburbs, where the streets are laid out in a square/rectangular grid, this makes "blocks" of houses and businesses between the streets. Yes, they differ in size from place to place. So, if you travel up main street from 2nd street to 13th street, you have traveled 11 blocks.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

As above, but I heard 10 blocks to a mile.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

My "block" is a section. They are a mile.

I deal with car owners all day. Nobody knows the difference between a Supercab, Club Cab or a King Cab. Worthless marketing jargon. "are your rear doors a lot smaller than the front doors?" Ok you have an extended cab.

 

[snoranger]

A city block is significantly less then a country mile.


You know the rule… ANYTHING other than the metric system!

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

A city block is significantly less then a country mile.


You know the rule… ANYTHING other than the metric system!

"circle the section" is the equivalent to "go around the block"

 

[97RangerXLT]

depends on where you are, but most cities consider 10 blocks per mile. Chicago I think has 8 per mile,

gotta agree with 85 on the extended cab, but what if your cab is significantly bigger than a single cab, but has no rear doors?

AJ

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

depends on where you are, but most cities consider 10 blocks per mile. Chicago I think has 8 per mile,

gotta agree with 85 on the extended cab, but what if your cab is significantly bigger than a single cab, but has no rear doors?

AJ

Then your cab is old. Dunno about the others but Ford always called it an Supern Cab.

But dealing with Ford, Chevy, Ram, Toyota etc... at the end of the day who cares what each marketing team calls each cab configuration.

 

[Uncle Gump]

 

[ericbphoto]

In the neighborhood where I grew up, there were 8 houses on each side of the street on my block. Right behind those 8 houses were 8 more facing the next street. But, when you got to the end of my street and turned to go around the block, you only passed the sides of the yards for the houses at the end of my street. So, 1 block on the intersecting street only had 2 houses per block. So, "it depends".

As far as measuring goes... I read, today, about a bridge near the MIT campus that the students measured off in units of "Mooch" or something like that. It's the name of a student years ago, who they laid down and marked his length over and over again to find out that the bridge is X number of "mooches" long.

 

[tw205]

I also live on a dirt road. Most of the traffic past my house consists of tractors or various farm equipment. Town is a 8 mile run but we got two stop lights. If I go for a ride around the block it’s about a four mile run. I’d say a block size is relative to ones perspective. I doubt there is standard size set up by city planners. I imagine whatever bloated bureaucrats happens to be in power at the time makes the decision based on their perspective not on any standard. Because they have none.
My two cents.

 

[sgtsandman]

The standard for a block is 10 to a mile. What actually happens is a different story. I think larger cities tend to be better at it than the rest. Where I live, where it it is a series of housing plans that linked together as time went on, none of them follow any kind of a standard. However they could cram the most amount of houses in a given area of land os how the the did it.

As far as the cab thing, as long as you get the concept you are trying to get across in a way that the reader understands it, good enough. Regular/Standard/Single cab, Extended/Super/Club cab, and Crew/Supercrew/Double cab. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Most are just marketing terms.

 

[scotts90ranger]

But how many squirrels is in a block? how many more solo cups wide is the legroom on the drivers side than passenger side? the good old standard american football field standard... Where's the banana for scale?

I use whatever terms make me giggle the most, I try not to over think things unless it's completely unnecessary (ADD and all, it happens) or involves a fair amount of sarcasm, I'm not no rocket surgeon...

I've kinda wondered myself, didn't know there was any "standard" of blocks per mile or whatever, not sure that's useless enough trivia to be retained? We'll find out at a time that it's completely useless!

 

[snoranger]

Then your cab is old. Dunno about the others but Ford always called it an extended cab.

Ford Marketing has always used the term Supercab. They started using it in ‘74 and shortly after that dropped the Super from the Super Camper Special to avoid confusion. They actually printed the word supercab on the windows on the 74-79 supercab trucks.