1 rod = 5.5 yards
One Rod equals 5.5 yards.
Five and a half yards is equal to one Rod.
One rod is equal to 16.5 feet. 5 1/2 yards equal a rod, or 16.5 feet.
There are 320 rods in a mile. Each rod is equal to 16.5 feet or 5.0292 meters.
The length of one rod is 5.5 yards and one mile is 1760 yards. 1 rod = 5.5 yards = 5.5/1760 miles = 0.003125 miles
1 square rod = 30.25 square yards.
There are 5.5 yards in one rod. Therefore, 40 rods is equal to 5.5 x 40 = 220 yards.
One rod is equal to 5.5 yards. Therefore, 6 rods is equal to 5.5 x 6 = 33 yards.
The original answer (below) was off by a factor of 3, a surveyor's rod = 5.5 yards. So (2 yards)/(5.5 yards/rod) = 4/11 rod or about 0.364 rod.This is the original answer refers to fencing rod, but this is actually 5.5 yards (not feet) as originally stated. I found reference to an 80 rod roll equal to 1320 feet (see link).
I checked a few sources, which concur with 1 rod = 16.5 feet = 5.5 yards.(3 rods)x(5.5 yards/rod) = 16.5 yards.
In length, old units not much used nowadays are: furlong = 220 yards, chain = 22 yards, rod,pole, or perch = 5.5 yards, link = 1/100 of a chain.
352 yards