How big is an acre of land? | The Rural Rules
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- How big is an acre of land, and how many do you need for your dream property? We show examples to help you understand what a square acre looks like and then give examples of how much you can fit into one acre. How many acres do you need for a house? A barn? A lake? A farm? Our host, Jason, explains and shows how an acre compares to items like a football field and a city block.
Jason works for Raydient LLC, a real estate company. Raydient LLC owns and sells thousands of acres of rural land in the southern United States. It is a taxable subsidiary of Rayonier Inc., a large timber real estate investment trust. You can view available properties for sale and learn more about Raydient at www.raydientplaces.com.
Finally! The only reasonable video that actually answers this question and puts it into the proper perspective. Thanks Jason!!!
Completely agree.
Yes
It's also the only video on the subject that is less than 2 minutes long.
100%. Just show me! Jason showed me. Thanks Jason!
ThNKS, I just inherited 3 acres of land and had a hard time picturing what that looks like.
How many of you are here because of that OTHER how big is an acre video (I.e. cringey football field 4 min I sec video)?
Ty Queen me haha
Dude that shit was hella funny
Ty Queen right
Me😂
hahahaha yes!!!!!
good explanation , straight down to the point thank you
Great video! My property law class used this as an introduction to adverse possession and it effectively showed how big an acre truly is. Thank you for your effort in this production.
I just bought 36.68 acres next to a nice sized lake in Colorado today. This video and the wine I'm drinking has me feeling like the king of the world.
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36+ is a solid chunk. We live on 29.42 and the property feels huge . Enjoy that brother !!
very informative i had to try 5 videos to finally find a good visual representation and explanation. very well done thank you
Jeremiah Holmes thats exactly what I said.lol
Me too
I've been outside working all day and now I have two achers
McFlySwatter 😂
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Straight to the point! Orally and visually informative. I LOVE IT!
Finally,..just what I was looking for. A quick no-nonsense very well explained video of what an acre of land looks like. Thanks.
Hey mate!! Thank you so much!! This is literally the perfect way to do a video like this. Short and clear!!
Thank you this is the real deal on how to look at an acre of land thank you
Exactly what I wanted visuals. Thank you so much.
Yeah, we all know that it's as big as a football field, but you actually show how big it is. Thank you so much.
Thanks for posting that! Very helpful to visualize.
Thank you for the simplicity.
THANK YOU! Finally someone created the perfect visual and mathematical representation!
Finally a very informative video, I don't count the number of videos I tried to picture the size of an acre. Thank you !
What a great video short and to the point. This guy right here knows what he's talking about and thank him for his video
Lord, thank heavens. 😒
Tour video is more helpful than ALL of the rest. And it is also just the same more simpler.
Wow this video is perfect. Thx for making it. I’ve been trying to understand 14acres I inherited years ago from my grandpa. I went & looked at but there were so many trees I drove my ass back to the city where I live. I pay the taxes each year but never fully knew how big that was so..... 💙
Exactly what I was looking for...images of acres sizes. Thank You.
Thank you SO MUCH for getting straight to the point and providing various visual aids to help with comprehension!
That's what I needed, a visual representation. So, theoretically, I need 10 acres. Now I can put a number to it. Thanks.
I am a single celled organism and all though I am still kind of confused this is probably as close as I'm going to get to understanding this concept. Thank you for the informative and concise video.
This was very helpful, I'm looking to start a Homestead soon
Well worth watching...
Clear, concise & to the point.
Thx you vm Jason 👍
Wish you'd kill the music though.
This suburban girl thanks you. Clear and concise. Appreciated it.
We have 5.4 acres in a rectangle that measures 608' x 400'. There's about a half acre wetland in one corner and about two and a half acres of bush in three areas of the property. The remaining part is taken up by the house and numerous outbuildings and one large open field of a bit over two acres It's been the perfect size for us, not overwhelming to take care of and leaves lots of room for other things to live. We tried having several horses on the place but eventually figured out that it worked best feed wise to just have two miniature horses. They had adequate food from spring til fall without having to buy any. There is still tons of room to add a large shop, or chicken coops, etc.
@@raydientrural Well, if any of your clients are considering making a move from Florida to Alberta the place will be going up for sale this spring. :) What's a tough sell around here is small (5-10 acres) raw acreages with no improvements on them. The reason for that is most of the time they are flat as a pancake bald ass prairie where you can see all four corner posts. Once you start adding up the costs of fencing it, putting in an all season access road, drilling a well, putting in a sewer system, running power, building a house and then planting a treeline for a windbreak and waiting 20 years for it to grow, it's no real surprise they stay on the market for a long time.
This video is perfect! Now I know approximately how many acres I want. 3-5 seems about right for me
Thank you. I been trying to visual it for a while now. So I definitely need 2 acres.
There’s land for sale in my area. It’s 1.45 acres and I wanna buy it but visually I don’t know how big a acre is. The land is covered by trees. Thanks for this video. I now can grasp how big an acre is. Hopefully nobody buys the land because the sign has been up for awhileee 😂
Did you get to buy that land?
So did you bought it ?
Excellent description. Thank you.
Excellent video. My family have 23.5 acres of land. We hope to build a few, houses on there in the very near future. And your video helped in solving a debate. LOL thanks again.
Wow. This is a cool video. 208 ft sq was what no one told me so far.
wow! this was exactly the answer i was looking for.
That is exactly what I was looking for!
I'm buying 1.8 acres
Thank you for helping me visualize better.
as a kid i was told a acre of land is a little more than you want to mow by hand.mowers have changed how hi the grass is. how much dog poop apples hills trees.i love your answer better now i know .thank you
wow .. thank you so very much, you made it real simple!..
Very good explanation!!!
Thank you very much!!!
GOD bless you!!!
Oh my goodness-- thank you!
As someone who has difficulty with spatial scales (to the extent of sometimes not knowing where walls are in relation to me... oof), this was very helpful!
Thank you have been pondering on it for a while. U answered it.
Thank you for a great explanation.
Love this so much. Thanks a lot mate for this awesome, succinct and illustrative explanation.
This information blew my mind, thank you
Very intresting love the way explanation was instant thanks very much. .....
Thank you for this video..trying to learn more about land etc as i plan in a few years to hopefully have a pig sanctuary. its hard times for me as im terrible with numbers but am determined,. thank you for the visualizations.
What a neat video. Very memorable.
Thank you ...... finally someone who knew :-)
Thanks for posting.😃
Thank you. That really does help provide perspective.
I like the visual ideas you provide at the end
This was really helpful
Awesome, verya easy to understand
We have 4 acres of tropical rainforest land on Hawaii island. We wish to “develop” these into fruit and nut orchards with gardens, integrate some bees, ducks, possibly pigs, and want to do this in such a way so as to not use chemical pesticides/herbicides and to let the land more or less support the animals needs, any thoughts on how many ducks an acre of tropical rainforest land can sustain without overgrazing or a lot of external inputs such as store bought animal feed
thank you sir, you answered such a simple question 😊
Thank You! Question: Are these lots supposed to be marked with dividing lines when purchased so you can fence the property? It's always hard to determine what you're buying without a fence to outline...
Best to hire a surveyor!
Thank you. Very easy to understand.
Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
Perfect. Thanks for the visual math!
thank you. good explanation
Thank you so much for helping me
My fiancée and I just bought property in pa. The problem we have is two neighbors out back are using a partial as their split driveway. We don't know what the previous land owner had in conjunction with them but we would like to gain possession of said property but not by mean measures until it has to go that way. What can be done? It's 40' x 225' being used by them that belongs to us per tax codes
This question may not be something you can answer but I will post it here anyway. A surveyor will often survey land in tracks, are these tracks of land 66 feet wide by 660 feet long or does this mean something else?
we the people, love you jason
Thanks I sure learned something new
Thank you sir for good explanation...
But can i please know that one acre is how many kms(not sq kms)??.
Im just started to be a meliponiculture (stingless bee keeper).. my father just about to buy 1.6 acres.. and now i can see how big it is..
I have a very simple question, I'm still young. Do you think investing in land in rural parts of America is a good investment?
They're not making any more of it. Yes
Now I have to find me 20 acres of land!
dunno how this got in my feed, but good luck on your channel man.
Thank you for this explanation!
Thanks, I do have a question. I am trying to figure out what I really need to have a 2,500 sq feet Dog Board and Train Facility and 2 outside fenced in training areas. What will fit on a 0.5 acres lot? I don't want to get more land then what I need. Thanks for any help.
So the More acres you have he smaller it expands in 1 direction right
Nicely done! Thanks for making this so clear. I thought an acre was 66' x 660' or does that work out the way as your measurements?
Simplistic.... Thanks
Pretty much sums up things ! Thanks.
My family owns 24 acres in mexico. Currently renting it out but I would love for my family to crop and make money. None of us have that skill, just have the land
Excellent video... Thank You!
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Currently in SoCal fires and I heard about how the fire was burning 1 acre a second and came to check out how much that really was, holy shit...
Yeah, especially that Thomas fire. That is so scary how fast that thing moved. 20,000 acres in under 12 hours is insane. I live in South orange county
Thank you. It really answered my question.
You can do a lot of cool things with one acre of land in the country, especially if you have a small house.
Got a question, I do...How many trees are in an acre? Use the trees in the video for our reference Please. Thank you Todd
I always wanted to know how big one Acer is its pretty good for me, but 6 acres its better more of a privacy. thank you for the info.
Awesome for straight forward video
How about a drones eye view with an superimposed yellow lines over the one acre with one or two people on the land?
is 10 acres enough land to hunt if its only 200 ft wide? is it worth buying?
Wow, Thanks Brother.. Being from the city I had no idea, now that 10 acres is looking good😄 not 20 though because cows, horses etc..yeah I have no clue😕😒😂😊👍
How many archers will you need for a small farm a few animals like chickens and a couple of horses and a small home ? Approximately.
It depends on how many arrows you have for the archers...and what you're shooting at ? flags? Clout archery?
very informative
very useful, thanks!
You can have a large house tank n barn on two acres n have plenty of room I grew up on 5acres but we only used less than an acre of it last year my dad finally started clearing it off literally 3/4 more house can be put on there
Is 13.33 acres big enough for a farm/home stead life style? Is that sufficient space for animals?
Edit: sorry I know I am very late to comment.
Thanks for the explanation! Quick question, what's the average cost for an acre of land?
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Great explanation! Thanks. =)
can you put a double wide modular home with a built n garage on acre of land
Be careful of having cattle just because you have a few acres, you need about 10 acres of good grassland to support 1 head of cattle plus water rights which someone else might own even if it is on your land. Same goes for mineral rights.
You can raise your own chickens though and if you never had fresh fried chicken you just have never had chicken at all! The secret recipe for fried chicken is flour in a bag or container with salt and pepper mixed in, add cut up chicken and mix it all up again then put in the fridge overnite then fry it in hot oil to a golden brown...
I have retired and I'm looking for I guess only one acre where I can put me a nice home or in there and some trees and maybe a nice Garden. Tell me how much would an acre be in Plainfield Indiana are closed in that area.. Good land for growing food.