Big Tires pulling Small tires.
A friend of mine asked me a question that I could not answer about his tires and towing. He has a small trailer weighing about 300 lbs unloaded and can carry up to 1000lbs total. Now the trailer has 1...
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JRscooby wrote:NRALIFR wrote:SweetLou wrote:
So the tire spins 1.3 times faster but we really don't know the speed of those small tires? Can we say 1.3 times faster than the truck, or 78 mph?
No, you can’t.
That would be nothing more than a variation of the trick question: “Which weighs more, a pound of feathers, or a pound of lead?”
The tires spin at a higher RPM, but the MPH is the exact same as the truck pulling it. :S
:):)
A track loader is moving 8 MPH. How fast is the pad on the ground moving?
The bottom of the track isn’t moving at all relative to the ground, same with the tire on a truck, the bottom of the tire on a truck isn’t moving for the moment in time it is touching the ground.
If a truck is moving 70mph, the bottom of the tire is moving 0mph, and the top of the tire is moving 140mph.
