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I'm going to explain how horsepower is measured and works.
Calimero says he is an engineer so he may technically know this, but he's never been around work stock so he doesn't understand what it means. https://twitter.com/EehSteph/status/1167342623524360192
Calimero says he is an engineer so he may technically know this, but he's never been around work stock so he doesn't understand what it means. https://twitter.com/EehSteph/status/1167342623524360192
One horsepower is 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute. If you raise 33,000 pounds of genuine Trumpian bullshit on foot in one minute you have done one horsepower of work.
The trick is how they measure it.
The trick is how they measure it.
3. One horse can produce one horsepower of work for 10 hours a day with a 1 hour lunch break.
They took a day's work for a team, divided that by two (to get one horse) and divided it down to where they got one minute's worth. 33k ft/lb.
They took a day's work for a team, divided that by two (to get one horse) and divided it down to where they got one minute's worth. 33k ft/lb.
4. Then they turned on their steam engine and they said, "If we run this thing absolutely flat out, until the boiler explodes it can do as much worse as 50 horses. Math. Figures don't lie!
Well, no, but liars figure.
Well, no, but liars figure.
5. It is an undisputed fact that one horse can put out an easy 14-15 horsepower for brief spurts. That's how you get videos like this:
6. And farm work, mowing, land work - really most kinds of work - take ranges of power. If you mow with a gasoline mower you already know this. You hear it lug down when you go through the wet low place where the grass is extra thick.
7. When the grass gets thick the horses squat down and put their shoulders in the load, and on they go.
So to do what two horses routinely do, you'd need at least a 30 horsepower tractor. Each horse can give you 15 HP in bursts.
So to do what two horses routinely do, you'd need at least a 30 horsepower tractor. Each horse can give you 15 HP in bursts.
8. When they measured that 2 HP tractor, it was full blast full bore pedal to the metal and would do as much work for one minute as two horses could do for ten hours without breaking a sweat.
9. I've got a friend who has a (IIRC) 535 horsepower Mustang.
Har har.
The only way that mustang could produce 535 horsepower would be if it were hitched to the largest load it could possibly pull and driven absolutely flat out to pull it.
Otherwise, no.
Har har.
The only way that mustang could produce 535 horsepower would be if it were hitched to the largest load it could possibly pull and driven absolutely flat out to pull it.
Otherwise, no.
10. If they're not doing the work, they're not producing the horsepower. Horsepower is a measure of work performed, not some hypothetical magic number.
And all combustion engines are measured at their maximum output.
All.
And all combustion engines are measured at their maximum output.
All.
11. Hell, a human athlete can routinely produce more than one horsepower in events. Think a couple of Olympic runners could pull this mower ten hours a day?
12. I've got a gasoline sickle bar mower (what those horses are pulling.)
It's 40 inches wide. Those horses are mowing at least 60. Half again as much.
My gasoline mower has a 5 HP Briggs & Stratton mower on it.
It bogs down and dies in heavy grass.
Oats burn hotter than gasoline
It's 40 inches wide. Those horses are mowing at least 60. Half again as much.
My gasoline mower has a 5 HP Briggs & Stratton mower on it.
It bogs down and dies in heavy grass.
Oats burn hotter than gasoline
13. Do a YouTube search on "horses pull semi" and you'll see *bunches* of different vids.
If you know horsedrawn people, you know guys who have pulled the neighbor's 80 HP tractor out of the mud.
Because the other thing is traction.
The horses can put their power on the ground.
If you know horsedrawn people, you know guys who have pulled the neighbor's 80 HP tractor out of the mud.
Because the other thing is traction.
The horses can put their power on the ground.
14. Now admittedly this is a four horsepower story, but I had a friend whose neighbor got his 4wd Silverado buried in a snowbank.
So he went out with his 110 HP John Deere 4wd tractor, and buried that.
So he went out with his Caterpillar bulldozer and buried that.
So he went out with his 110 HP John Deere 4wd tractor, and buried that.
So he went out with his Caterpillar bulldozer and buried that.
15. So Chubb took his 4 Percherons out, and spent about two hours, and pulled the whole circus out of the snow, one vehicle at a time.
16. But it's a skill. Not just any bozo can do it.
The day I bought my first team of Belgians I also bought a mower, and some cultivation machinery, and put all the iron stuff in the back of my pickup, and buried it to the axles in mud.
Not that bright.
The day I bought my first team of Belgians I also bought a mower, and some cultivation machinery, and put all the iron stuff in the back of my pickup, and buried it to the axles in mud.
Not that bright.
17. So a guy said, "Pull it out with your horses."
And I said, "I don't know how."
And he harnessed them up, and hitched them to the truck with a chain, with some slack in it, and he said, "Giddup!"
And when they ran out of slack and hit that load they stopped. Sudden.
And I said, "I don't know how."
And he harnessed them up, and hitched them to the truck with a chain, with some slack in it, and he said, "Giddup!"
And when they ran out of slack and hit that load they stopped. Sudden.
18. And the Amishman I'd bought the horse from gently moved him aside.
He turned the horses about 25° off to the side from the load.
And he said, "Step. Step up. Step." And he moved them forward until there was no slack in the hitch. All the chain and linkage was off the ground
He turned the horses about 25° off to the side from the load.
And he said, "Step. Step up. Step." And he moved them forward until there was no slack in the hitch. All the chain and linkage was off the ground
19. in a straight taut line from the truck to their shoulders.
And he said, "Walk on."
And they walked.
Since they were at a slant to the load, although everything was taut, it swung them aside until they were in a straight line forward from the truck. By this time,
And he said, "Walk on."
And they walked.
Since they were at a slant to the load, although everything was taut, it swung them aside until they were in a straight line forward from the truck. By this time,
20. They were moving forward, and had all 2850 pounds of themselves in moving inertia, and they thought the load was moving with them, and they just squatted into the sudden increase in load, and <pop> the pickup rose out of the mudhole and followed them.
And these horses were 12
And these horses were 12
21. Smooth mouthed mares, too old to work full time on an Amish farm.
They are the horses in this true story I wrote. If you look, there's a pic of them. Amanda and Sherry. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JbZc-6N2AqelZqdko3aEtDUHpoeFp3bWFIYVI1ZkxuTWRj/view?usp=drivesdk
They are the horses in this true story I wrote. If you look, there's a pic of them. Amanda and Sherry. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JbZc-6N2AqelZqdko3aEtDUHpoeFp3bWFIYVI1ZkxuTWRj/view?usp=drivesdk
22. So - assuming the original poster was sincere, he hadn't bothered to learn the relevant facts.
Not all horsepowers are created equal.
Or:
Oats burn hotter than gasoline.
Not all horsepowers are created equal.
Or:
Oats burn hotter than gasoline.
PS. Usain Bolt produced over 3 HP when racing.
No machine ever, anywhere, can produce more than it's rated horsepower, not for one second. Few machines can equal their rating over the working life of a horse or mule. Or donkey.
No machine ever, anywhere, can produce more than it's rated horsepower, not for one second. Few machines can equal their rating over the working life of a horse or mule. Or donkey.
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