Whay Does My Tractor Look So Small??

[Deano]

I walked over to close the gate and when I looked back, I snapped this picture.

Deano

 

[jdjdjd]

I had a similar issue:

 

[Wacky]

I think your tractor is not so small......that horse is HUGE:laughing:!!! How many horse power is that thing anyway

 

[ENTS]

If that horse was a puppy, I'd be headen for the hills. Look at the paws on that sucker.:laughing:

 

[sweettractors]

I walked over to close the gate and when I looked back, I snapped this picture.

Deano

How many horses does that tractor replace? 18-20? Ken Sweet

 

[SandburRanch]

How disappointing. No Oats in that feed trough.

 

[montelatici]

Percheron?

 

[Duffster]

How many horses does that tractor replace? 18-20? Ken Sweet

Pulling a plow? Pretty close match.

 

[Duffster]

Why Does My Tractor Look So Small??

Cuz it is.

 

[rdsaustintx]

LOL! It's a relative thang...

 

[Deano]

Yes, he is a Percheron, my wife's. I stole her gray one (my avatar).
I took the picture and sent it to my wife with the title "The Unmanned Treat Wagon" because I always have horse treats in the cup holder...and he knows it! 5 seconds after this picture was taken, he had his muzzle in the cup holder looking for some!

I don't know how many horse power he equates to but I would guess more than one!!:laughing:

Deano

 

[NH-Rob]

mine looks a little small too but it sure is much better at mowing the lawn then the caseih would be.
Rob

 

[grsthegreat]

Yes, he is a Percheron, my wife's. I stole her gray one (my avatar).
I took the picture and sent it to my wife with the title "The Unmanned Treat Wagon" because I always have horse treats in the cup holder...and he knows it! 5 seconds after this picture was taken, he had his muzzle in the cup holder looking for some!

I don't know how many horse power he equates to but I would guess more than one!!:laughing:

Deano

a pair of my horses equates to way more than 2 horse power. im not even sure why they use that term. id like to see a 2hp motor pull this manure spreader...no way.

 

[AMR]

how does that saying go, it's not the size that matters but how you use it, something like that

Nothing gets smaller than a boat when you take it from the show room to the ocean

 

[peterc38]

Yes, he is a Percheron, my wife's. I stole her gray one (my avatar).
I took the picture and sent it to my wife with the title "The Unmanned Treat Wagon" because I always have horse treats in the cup holder...and he knows it! 5 seconds after this picture was taken, he had his muzzle in the cup holder looking for some!

I don't know how many horse power he equates to but I would guess more than one!!:laughing:

Deano

Awesome horse. I don't know that much about them but I am drawn to the draft horses, especially the Percheron's and Belgians. Every time I go to the fairs here in the fall I spend all my time in the draft horse and tractor sections!

 

[kjung17]

Beautiful animals. My favorite event at the local Homecoming is always the draft horses pulling. On a similar note, I recently walked into a customer's machine shed to repair a 7230 premium JD. Sitting in the corner was a new 8235R JD with an 855 JD sitting right next to it. It looked like the 8235 had just calved. Lol.

 

[SPYDERLK]

a pair of my horses equates to way more than 2 horse power. im not even sure why they use that term. id like to see a 2hp motor pull this manure spreader...no way.

It is an "average" power capability delivered constantly over a workday I believe. Some athletes can do multiple HP for several minutes. Some horses can do 20 hp, probably more, for a short time. ... But to keep it up all day theyve got to be run significantly easier. An engine doesnt tire.
larry

 

[Duffster]

It is an "average" power capability delivered constantly over a workday I believe. Some athletes can do multiple HP for several minutes. Some horses can do 20 hp, probably more, for a short time. ... But to keep it up all day theyve got to be run significantly easier. An engine doesnt tire.
larry

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Jay4200]

a pair of my horses equates to way more than 2 horse power. im not even sure why they use that term. id like to see a 2hp motor pull this manure spreader...no way.

Found on another forum:

"James Watt set to work devising a way of measuring the amount of Work that his engines could do. The obvious benchmark was the horse, or more specifically the Draft Horse that was the industry standard of the time.

Using a hoist, he conducted experiments to determine how quickly a Draft Horse could raise a heavy load. He observed that a load of 550 Pounds could be raised at a rate of 1 foot per second. That is 550 foot-pounds per second of work done. Multiply by 60 and that is 33,000 foot-pounds per minute of work or 1 Horsepower (1 HP)."

JayC

 

[SPYDERLK]

Found on another forum:

"James Watt set to work devising a way of measuring the amount of Work that his engines could do. The obvious benchmark was the horse, or more specifically the Draft Horse that was the industry standard of the time.

Using a hoist, he conducted experiments to determine how quickly a Draft Horse could raise a heavy load. He observed that a load of 550 Pounds could be raised at a rate of 1 foot per second [add: "all day long"]. That is 550 foot-pounds per second of work done. Multiply by 60 and that is 33,000 foot-pounds per minute of work or 1 Horsepower (1 HP)."

JayC

... otherwise the statement from the source is incorrect by omission of information compatible with, and needed for grasp of the underlying principle. A horse is capable of many times that energy rate for brief periods. The idea is that a horse is comfortable pulling a 550/3 pound load at about 3 FT/sec [for instance] and can do it all day. That horse can also pull that same load at 20 or 30 fps, but will tire fairly soon.
larry