Hand Tools
Several years ago, when my Dad died, I inherited much of his stuff - http://lumberjocks.com/hjt/workshop. Part of the collect was this 100' tape ruler. But instead of marked off at 1/16, 1/2, 3/8… it uses numbers 1,2,3… and every 10 numbers = 1 foot.
So for example it would read:3' 1, 3' 2...