Why does farming equipment require such low horsepower compared to your average car?
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Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you. Tractors need torque more than horsepower so they go at slower rpm’s and thus lower HP, but prioritize higher torque to pull big things like a wall.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you. Tractors need torque more than horsepower so they go at slower rpm’s and thus lower HP, but prioritize higher torque to pull big things like a wall.
Farming equipment is designed to do a lot of work but over a long period of time. It’s not racing where time is of the essence. Horsepower is torque over time or how much work you do over time.
Farming equipment needs a lot of torque to move and carry tons of material but it doesn’t need it to be delivered quick. So it’s incredibly strong but slow paced. Which is also good, slow turning engines don’t wear down as fast and are much more reliable.
That’s why you can see most workhorse engines are low revving, low horsepower, but have high torque at the low end and usually are coupled with gearboxes that multiply that torque much higher still.
Farming equipment is designed to do a lot of work but over a long period of time. It’s not racing where time is of the essence. Horsepower is torque over time or how much work you do over time.
Farming equipment needs a lot of torque to move and carry tons of material but it doesn’t need it to be delivered quick. So it’s incredibly strong but slow paced. Which is also good, slow turning engines don’t wear down as fast and are much more reliable.
That’s why you can see most workhorse engines are low revving, low horsepower, but have high torque at the low end and usually are coupled with gearboxes that multiply that torque much higher still.
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