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ASnatchA
This reconfirms that the Amish are good people.
GenericImgurianDragon
Those horses are fluffy.
TardWrangl3r
If only it was a Budweiser tanker
mburicao
4K horse power
shinshisueno
A well trained horse pulling team can move incredibly heavy sleds, works for trucks I suppose too.
TheRealArclight
real horse power....
basehead3six
59.6 horse power
itxtalone
its surprising how little force cars need to get unstuck, just a little nudge to get the tires traction again
NebulousDream
Get fucked technology...
LadyBumps
"Next on Top Gear"...
metalchef72
utgort
They are getting a lot of help from the truck they just help overcome the lack of friction.
IthinkUrFunny
That's a huge beer
BronsonMills
Please let me believe that's a Budweiser truck.
LinkinPiper
Those horses are majestic!
BookCreaseOnFace
The impressive part is getting all 4 horses to start pulling at exactly the same time.
NotARobotISwear
"Go team!"
VizenFatale
It's almost like we've been using horses as beasts of burden for generations or something.
BookCreaseOnFace
Yeah, but it takes skill from both the trainer and the horses to give that first unsticking tug. Pulling competition-level work there.
ChloeRed
They also come with quite a high level control system
teesi
It´s not the horsepower,It´s the torque.
Tesdinic
These horses are so powerful that often wagons would be loaded down with additional weight so that they didn't jerk it around like a toy.
ilovedogsbutmineisanasshole
The cool thing is this isn't fake, those horses are ridiculously strong
somethingcoolandmemeworthy
Would be better if it was a Budweiser truck
eazydave
Pretty obvious they been fucking with the definition of 1 horsepower.
bashuan
Horsepower is nothing without traction.
Coolmikefromcanada
Being that the unit was first made up by tractor sales men trying to get farmers to switch yeah they have
bearjew1990
Fun fact: horse power doesn't mean the strength of a horse. It means rate of work done.
Teabagchampion
One horse = 15 horsepower (google it), 1 horsepower= 735 watts (power). Draft horses are among the strongest, so lets say: 4x20-30=80-120hp
OdinYggd
Nearly 15 horsepower only briefly, then 1 horsepower sustained workload. Wikipedia explains.
PoliticalLava
-40hp? The truck is doing the work on them?! neet.
OdinYggd
No. James Watt measured 1 horse to be 28000 ft-lb per minute. He defined 1 engine horsepower as 33000 ft-lb per minute.
OdinYggd
This was so that his engines would always outperform the horses they replaced, ensuring sales.
Teabagchampion
which equals about 735 watts. The SI unit watt is much more practical for measuing effect in physics (horse, car, vacuumcleaner, whatever)
DrDeadeyeCFO
Man, these Budweiser commercials are getting better!
mricowboy
Amish tow truck. Cool.
morphis
The Amish would be the only ones with their shit together after the fall of society apocalypse.
OdinYggd
Its funny how four housepower is all it needed. Horses have better traction than trucks do.
JonDeneweth
This my children is why you put snow tires on your truck and snow boots on your horses
elless
That's a weird Budweiser commercial
LeahShine88
Doing what they were (more or less) bred to do. Such power! I love draft breeds
Icallshennanigans
aShogunNamedMarcus
Ah and the tanker truck full of horse pis--I mean, Budweiser was rescued from the snow bank just in time for the little orphans charity gala
ilovereubensandwiches
This Bud's for you....
AutomotivePhysicist
Impressive for only four horsepower.
Mikegoobs
After seeing this comment I knew there would be all kinds of people getting scientifically correct.
Mannus
It's the torque, not the horsepower.
AutomotivePhysicist
Torque? What's rotating?
EyeTri
Traction makes all the difference. Doesn't matter how much HP you have if you can't lay it down effectively.
Kyrorayne
The one the guy is riding is a mule. O.o 3.5 horsepower xD
mydrivec
Torque!
5krr5krr
I was gonna say that sir/ ma'am
jmaginary
It's all about power transfer.. In the case of truck. Power transfer stops at the wheel..
jridley
The truck is providing most of the power. The horses are just getting the drive wheels up far enough in the rut to get traction.
GrundleBlunder
Im more impreseed the cart didnt snap
Teabagchampion
One horse = 15 horsepower (google it), 1 horsepower= 735 watts (power). Draft horses are among the strongest, so lets say: 4x20-30=80-120hp
Valkyr1987
All about the gear ratio
traso
i was about to comment that :/
qaaaaa
HP is based on the average continuous output of a draft horse. A horse's peak outout is around 15 hp
OdinYggd
No its not. 1 horse is slightly less than 1 horsepower because James Watt wanted his steam engines to always outperform the equivalent horse
TheElusiveEnchilada
Dad! lol
asseater2031
All about the torque
McGiglio
That's like 300 ducks
YuMoGuiGwaiFaiDiZao
Thats like 50,000 squirrels
unownlanguage
400hp =7000 ducks so your math is slightly off but itll hold up in this argument
Beelsebooob
That's more like 3 horsepower. Watt deliberately undersold his steam engines so that no one would come back saying "my horse is 1/
Beelsebooob
stronger than this supposedly 1hp engine" 2/2
Leithoa
No, it's like 6 HP. Horses are actually about 1.5 HP cause Watt used ponies.
BlackDragoness
Actually, a single horsepower is the ability to lift 33,000 pounds 1 foot over a period of 1 minute, and most draft horses have several HPs
Cassiraa
ACTUALLY draft horses are many horses inside of only one horse costume.
TheRealFireFrenzy
or 750Watts since that is much easier to work with:)
DiatribeGuy
^^ this. Peak performance some horses can hit 17hp, but cannot keep that up.
AutomotivePhysicist
Draft horses are above the norm. Over the period of a day a typical Horse can do the same amount of work as a 1HP engine or motor.
nursesalt
Is that why the get drafted? When is the draft combine? I'll have to tune in. ;)
ICallPeoplesBullshit
twentyfourcharacterslong
Thanks, one of my precious childhood memories are gone to make room for this pearl of wisdom.
BarfTittiesGalore
I learned how little HP it takes to move heavy objects from working at a car wash. 1HP electric motor pulls ur car thru the car wash.
AutomotivePhysicist
It only takes about 13 HP to keep a typical car moving at 55mph on a flat road.
asator87
It's all about them torques
flexistraw
It's about power, you can gear-reduce to make torques.
WorkerLurker
It's about force - friction
AutomotivePhysicist
That's how the unit of measure came to be, so someone could tell how many actual horses a machine could take the place of.
Leithoa
Watt used ponies. In his work he found horses to be ~1.5 HP sustained, up to 14 HP peak.
funkmaster40
Yes actually. Ppl didn't understand machine power stats at first. The guy was a machine salesman and under calculated a hp to help sales.
thisnameistaken
Not really it was originally pit-ponies used to pump water out of mines. his pump was equivalent to the power of them horses
funkmaster40
Yes those were the first uses of steam engines compared to horses. But the calculated official HP was by James Watt for selling engines.