Horse Power

[rake60]

The Imperial definition of horse power is the torque required to vertically lift
550 pounds one foot in 1 second.
Or: 1 HP = 550 foot-pounds / second.

The animal that inspired that is very dear to me.
If you asked that animal to deliver 1.5HP it would try to do that!
They are the perfect engines that could never be modeled.

It's racing season.
Let's hope it will be a safe one for the animals and their jockeys...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg[/ame]

Long Live The Horse Power!

Rick

 

[Lew Hartswick]

I'm more into Clydesdale's than Thoroughbreds.
Horse racing is too much like the "big left turn" of auto racing in America.
BAH!!
Now rodeo riding and Formula 1 motor racing is IT!!
...lew...

 

[hitandmissman]

You will really get a handle on horse power if you can go to a Horse Pull. Sometimes these are heald at antique engine shows. When the hook falls into place and the horse starts to pull the sled you will really see horse power.

 

[rake60]

Are you joking?
I live in Pennsylvania!

Here's a video from the 2009 PA Farm Show of the
7600 pound pulling competition.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNji35YEVrY&feature=related[/ame]

I wouldn't want to be the guy dropping that hook into the weight sled.
As soon as those animals feel resistance, their going to work.
A hand in the wrong place isn't going to slow them down.

Rick

 

[Maryak]

I wouldn't want to be the guy dropping that hook into the weight sled.
As soon as those animals feel resistance, their going to work.
A hand in the wrong place isn't going to slow them down.

Rick,

Not this little black duck - no way

Thanks for that - Wonderful. :bow:

I didn't know there was such a thing It's a sad day when you don't learn something.

Been to a few tractor pulls but that is pure "Guts for Glory."

Best regards
Bob

 

[hitandmissman]

After horses pull for a while not a word is said to them to start, they know when they hear the hook "clunk" onto the sled to go. Saw a fellow drop the hook once and it bang the sled but didn't hook, boy did he get a ride. Easy pull that time for the horses. He didn't get hurt but would guess the next time he would be more careful. This was at a small engine show around Mercer, Pa. a few years ago.

 

[rake60]

There is a lot of forestry logging in this area.
If there are prime trees to be harvested where the property owner doesn't
want his ground destroyed by heavy equipment, the horse teams are still
called into do the log skidding. There is little damage to the ground and
the exhaust that inevitably flies when they are under full load is good for
the regrowth of the grass!
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Rick

 

[ChooChooMike]

One of the logging show episode (Extreme Logging or American Loggers, etc.) showed using Donkeys for logging, the way it used to be done. Definitely took some donkey power then :big:

I have a DVD showing one of the last logging trains in China - using oxen to skid the logs down to the steam train in the winter. Very harsh conditions