Horse's horse power?

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Just saw an advert for a chinese historical documentary and some guy was having his limbs pulled apart by horses....so how much horse power does a horse have?
 
For that application I think torque would be more relevant. A measurement in lb/ft probably wouldn't work as horses have hooves and not feet.
 
Torque's the not the right measurement, as it's not rotating....

I'd have thought the maximum force the horse can pull in Newtons is what you'd need...
"lb / ft" is a measurement of pressure Scuzi, "lb ft" is torque :p

DRZ said:
1 horsepower = 33,000 ft/lbs per minute
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ft lb / minute, not ft/lb /minute :p
 
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The term "horsepower" was created by James Watt, an engineer who lived from 1736-1819, famous for his work on improving the performance of steam engines.

Watt was working with ponies lifting coal out of a coal mine, and he decided to come up with a measurement that would describe the amount of power that one animal could pull.
He found that an average mine pony could do 22,000 foot-pounds of work a minute. He then increased it by 50% and called that one horsepower: 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute.

Basically, a horsepower means this: According to Watt a horse can do 33,000 foot-pounds of work every minute. A horse pulling coal out of a mine, exerting 1 horsepower, will raise 330 pounds of coal 100 feet in one minute, or 33 pounds of coal 1,000 feet in one minute.

Fun fact: A horse producing 1 horsepower would burn 641 calories in an hour if it were 100% efficient
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Pho said:
Basically, a horsepower means this: According to Watt a horse can do 33,000 foot-pounds of work every minute. A horse pulling coal out of a mine, exerting 1 horsepower, will raise 330 pounds of coal 100 feet in one minute, or 33 pounds of coal 1,000 feet in one minute.
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And thats why so many horses died down the mines... next children we'll be learning about creationalism...
 
DaveyD said:
Torque's the not the right measurement, as it's not rotating....

I'd have thought the maximum force the horse can pull in Newtons is what you'd need...
"lb / ft" is a measurement of pressure Scuzi, "lb ft" is torque :p



ft lb / minute, not ft/lb /minute :p
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You know what I mean, I was thinking of those horses with wheels ;)
 
MetalStorm said:
1 horse power is roughly 750 Watts (a watt is a Joule per second. A Joule is the energy required to lift 1 Newton through 1 meter)
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1 Newton through one meter? A gas meter?


Edit: Bah. Its a Newton. I was confusing that with, erm, something else. Its an exerted force of one Newton through a metre though.
 
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DaveyD said:
Torque's the not the right measurement, as it's not rotating....

I'd have thought the maximum force the horse can pull in Newtons is what you'd need...
"lb / ft" is a measurement of pressure Scuzi, "lb ft" is torque :p

ft lb / minute, not ft/lb /minute :p
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Upon reading DaveyD's numourous posts on... well, everything (it's freaky!) it's come to my knowledge that he's a) Omnipresent, b) All knowing, c) more knowledgable than Gilly and d) a geek! And I'll be telling you that at the next BLR!
 
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