A Simpler Explanation Of The Measurement Of ONE HORSE POWER

550 times is just idling.

Housted wrote:
One horsepower equals 550 foot pounds (pound feet) per second.

In high school, in physics class, I generated 1 horsepower by running up a flight of stairs. :)

Housted

Does this mean a horse pounds each foot 550 times, or all four 550 times for a grand total of 2,200 times :h

Boon Docker wrote:
One Horse Power Hybrid



Wonder how many miles per bail?

Wonder which group will protest its emissions? :)

One horsepower to run up stairs sounds right. According to Wikipedia, A healthy human can produce 1.2 horsepower briefly, but 0.1 over a sustained period. Trained athletes can produce 2.5 housepower briefly, and Usain Bolt produced 3.5 horsepower in breaking the 100 meter dash record in 2009.

A typical plow horse can generate about one horsepower over a sustained period. A horse generated 14.9 housepower (briefly) measured at the 1926 Iowa state fair.

One Horse Power Hybrid



Wonder how many miles per bail?

We have a lot of Amish in our area. Most of them have a buggy pulled by one horse.
Does that count:@