How much HP does....

[Moose.]

.... a horse have? Seriously, I recon it's much more than just 1HP for an average horse. And those Shire horses can pull a pretty hefty carriage which would require much more than a 1HP engine. Where on earth did this silly unit of power come from any way?

yes it's Friday and I'm bored!

edit: spelling

>> Edited by Moose. on Friday 3rd March 13:06

[alexkp]

A horse has much more than 1hp in engine terms IIRC.

[Nick P]

if so, how many hp does a pony have?

[blindswelledrat]

... and much more importantly how many HP do 7 fish,2 badgers and a bag of weasels have?
Will that HP be reduced by the rope I intend to tie them to a sledge with?

[Davel]

Is this HP Fruity or Original?

[ripton]

are we talking HP at the hoof or harness?

[timmy30]

I think an average sized dog had 2.5hp, if that's any help.

[Moose.]

ripton said:

are we talking HP at the hoof or harness?

:scrachchin: I would have thought transmission losses would be pretty much zero, so either really

[jamieboy]

Davel said:

Is this HP Fruity or Original?

You mean "Is this Fruity or Burny?"

Always was burny sauce, always will be. To me, anyway.

[Nick P]

but isn't a horse classed as 4wd so the transmission losses are greater?

[jeremyc]

Nick P said:

but isn't a horse classed as 4wd so the transmission losses are greater?

But it will vary depending upon whether you measure the losses at a trot, canter or gallop.

[Nick P]

jeremyc said:

Nick P said: but isn't a horse classed as 4wd so the transmission losses are greater? But it will vary depending upon whether you measure the losses at a trot, canter or gallop.

and a horse cannot torque

[Jon C]

Nick P said:

jeremyc said: Nick P said: but isn't a horse classed as 4wd so the transmission losses are greater? But it will vary depending upon whether you measure the losses at a trot, canter or gallop. and a horse cannot torque

Unless of course that particular horse is the Famous Mr Ed

[Nick P]

Jon C said:

Nick P said: jeremyc said: Nick P said: but isn't a horse classed as 4wd so the transmission losses are greater? But it will vary depending upon whether you measure the losses at a trot, canter or gallop. and a horse cannot torque Unless of course that particular horse is the Famous Mr Ed

<winces at being outsmarted>

[rodney59]

Take a look at website: www.web-cars.com/math/horsepower.html

Seems we humans have 0.1 hp

[Nick P]

rodney59 said:

Take a look at website: www.web-cars.com/math/horsepower.html Seems we humans have 0.1 hp

thats can't be correct, i bang away like a toilet door in the wind and use up loads of Horsepower?


wakes up to realise sexual prowess has all been a dream

[Tyre Smoke]

But is this on a conveyor belt heading on the opposite direction?

[Fatboy]

blindswelledrat said:

... and much more importantly how many HP do 7 fish,2 badgers and a bag of weasels have? Will that HP be reduced by the rope I intend to tie them to a sledge with?

Depends on whether the weasels are in the bag (power reduction) or out of the bag, hooked up in a parallel mammalian array.

[Corpulent Tosser]

You can blame James Watt for the unit horse power

He was trying to sell his steam engines and observed horses at work on mines.
He concluded that a horse could lift 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second. In other words, it could lift 33,000 pounds one foot per minute. And that's the figure we use today: one unit of horsepower equals 33,000 foot-pounds per minute.

The horses that worked the mines were not the biggest or possibly the healthiest horses, but then he wanted to be able to tell potential buyers that his engine could do the work of X number of horses.

[Nick P]

Corpulent Tosser said:

You can blame James Watt for the unit horse power He was trying to sell his steam engines and observed horses at work on mines. He concluded that a horse could lift 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second. In other words, it could lift 33,000 pounds one foot per minute. And that's the figure we use today: one unit of horsepower equals 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. The horses that worked the mines were not the biggest or possibly the healthiest horses, but then he wanted to be able to tell potential buyers that his engine could do the work of X number of horses.

cool...thats cleared that up then...


jealous at not knowing that info