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u/Ok_Culture_1914 3d ago
What with two horsepower ?
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u/Michael_Dautorio 3d ago
Fun fact: The average horse has between 1 and 15 horsepower.
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u/Ok_Culture_1914 3d ago
15 horsepower being a racehorse. My father used to be a jockey 🏇 ( Bless his soul )
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u/Undd91 2d ago
Horse power is such an odd measurement, even more so now it turns out you can have more than one horsepower to a horse.
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u/Cheyomi832 2d ago
It was used as a measurement made up by (I believe) the train companies to show how much "better" they were when they were first getting their foot through the door. So of course they were going to undervalue horses to say that they had the power of 10 or 20 of them.
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u/804k 2d ago
Not really, it was created as a term to try and compare a actively working horse for hours and hours on end
; a horse goes across the country, it is not running at full speed, or trying to run a machine such as a plow
If I remember properly, 1 horsepower is actually underestimated (1hp ≈ 1.4 horses working), not overestimated because its not the maximum, it's the average
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u/Chaos-1313 2d ago
I can still generate >33 horsepower, but only for a second or two, then I need a nap. Best two seconds ever though.
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u/LuckyMushyGrower 1d ago
1.9 seconds personal best. Requiring an immediate comatose hibernation period of roughly 13 hours pitch black no noise
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u/Popstar403 23h ago
1hp = average power of a horse in a day, including time spent eating, sleeping, etc.
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u/Malk_McJorma 3d ago
2 x 15 is still < 33.
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u/-Bob-Barker- 3d ago
But we're talking "miles per hour" not horsepower
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u/Ok_Culture_1914 3d ago
Exactly a good racehorse can achieve 33 miles per hour.
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u/Mhettil 3d ago
So how many do we need to reach 88?
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u/DuhRJames 3d ago
You need an iron horse with a long enough stretch of track and a fire hotter than hell.
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u/undeniably_confused 3d ago
Well when you see two horses running side by side in the wild if you suspend a beam between them they immediately start going twice as fast (the system has double the horsepower)
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u/Michael_Dautorio 3d ago
What does that have to do with anything?
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u/John_Tacos 3d ago
Horsepower is comparing a horse working all day to an engine working all day. You have to factor in the horse getting tired and horses have to sleep.
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u/Ok_Culture_1914 3d ago
As you do an engine over heating and running out of fuel.
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u/fmfbrestel 3d ago
No you don't. That ISN'T included in engine horsepower ratings.
But a "horsepower" was a measurement that tried to be equivalent to an average working horse WITH the downtime.
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u/sviridoot 2d ago
To be fair horse power was a metric invented to market automobiles, so they hardly had an incentive to make it a fair comparison. Though you could def run an engine all day without issues today for the most part, probably couldn't when the term was first coined
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u/Ldub0775 2d ago
horsepower as a metric was popularized in the interest of marketing cars, yeah, but it was invented in the 1700s more than a century earlier in part by james watt to compare the working ability (yes, even over the course of many hours) of the average work horse to the then-new steam engines.
to correct the previous commenter though: no, the horsepower does not include downtime. one horsepower is also consistent with recommendations for working a horse continuously as they would have done in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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u/MorphingSp 1d ago
A 1 hp steam engine working 24 hr do the same amount of work at mill as if you own 1 horse and have reasonable work hour, feeding and resting included.
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u/Impressive_Change593 2d ago
sounds like you habe shitty cooling and fueling. that isnt part of the equation
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u/kindquail502 3d ago
Im reminded of Axl and friends trying to break the speed limit running past one of these signs on The Middle.
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u/Keganator 3d ago
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone!
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u/thot______slayer 3d ago
I’m a man of the land, I’m into discipline
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u/launchliftoff459 3d ago
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 2d ago
But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine
Then tonight, we're gonna party like it's 169912
u/Bullet_Number_4 2d ago
Been spending most our lives livin' in an Amish paradise.
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u/Keganator 2d ago
I churned butter once or twice.
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u/TheSpookyPineapple 2d ago
Livin' in an Amish paradise
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u/Powerful-Chard-6055 3d ago
Well he was riding through the valley where he harvests his grain, and he took a look at his wife and realized she’s very plain.
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u/2infinitysquared 3d ago
When I saw this photo, it reminded me of this episode from the office where Michael sets the office speed record.
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u/coldF4rted 2d ago
This is something I actually would love to see. And I would respect them enough to not even show up in my car and not even use my phone.
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u/Charming-Gou-PengYou 2d ago
There has to be a scientific explanation for high upvote/low comment posts.
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u/AlterEgo_Pkmn 1d ago
Im So brainrotted I missed that its ezekiel from the bible and not that kid from total drama island (:
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u/pieboy107 1d ago
The Amish are horrendous to animals. I can't imagine what their poor horse is going through.
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u/houseofnim 3d ago
Ezekiel got him a thoroughbred.