| Author | Message | ||
| Nick Morris (Nick3751)
Registered Member Username: Nick3751 Post Number: 396 Registered: 1-2004 Posted From: 71.225.246.135 Rating: N/A |
I'm looking for a cheap scale, like a fish scale that will go up to say 1500lb that's pretty small and can take and hold a maximum reading to satisfy a curiousity I have. I figue with all the various backgrounds here someone can help me. | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 33 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 206.251.11.99 Rating: N/A |
Do you remember the old farm scales that were used to weigh hanging beef? Antique stores in your area may have some. Feel free to call me, chech my profile. | ||
| David Guglielmetti (Daveg)
Registered Member Username: Daveg Post Number: 86 Registered: 2-2009 Posted From: 66.122.182.185  Rating: N/A |
How accurate do you want to get? You can 'okie' a scale with a bathroom scale and board or lever of some sort. Basically it is just math. | ||
| Nick Morris (Nick3751)
Registered Member Username: Nick3751 Post Number: 397 Registered: 1-2004 Posted From: 71.225.246.135 Rating: N/A |
I'm looking for something I can hook one end to a lead rope and the other end to a horse to see how much force they're pulling on me with. How big are the old beef scales? | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 34 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 206.251.11.99 Rating: N/A |
Old beef scales only hang and have weights that hang on with hooks and are moveable. Some old spring type will go to weigh 100lbs or more. They were not legal accurate. | ||
| David Guglielmetti (Daveg)
Registered Member Username: Daveg Post Number: 87 Registered: 2-2009 Posted From: 66.122.182.185 Rating: N/A |
Is there any kind of an instrument (like a probe or thermocouple, etc) that could be installed on a lead rope and measure stretch on some type of handheld DVOM? Kinda HiTech for measuring the kinda horsepower you're talking about. | ||
| Cullen Newsom (Cullennewsom)
Registered Member Username: Cullennewsom Post Number: 111 Registered: 2-2009 Posted From: 98.201.161.214  Rating: N/A |
Google provides http://www.e-clec-tech.com/stre.html http://www.robotstoreuk.com/SENSORS%2BVISION/MerlinStretchSensor/MerStretchSensor.htm | ||
| Cullen Newsom (Cullennewsom)
Registered Member Username: Cullennewsom Post Number: 112 Registered: 2-2009 Posted From: 98.201.161.214 Rating: N/A |
One might also get a scale from some big game outfitter, remove the face, and affix some carbon paper to it, then gently bend the needle so that it scratches the carbon paper, as some primitive recorder. http://www.google.com/products?q=game+scale&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&clien t=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf I reckon you'll only get to measure how much force you can hold, and not what the horse can do. And you can find out the answer to that without a horse. There's also rigging simple machines with pulleys, to multiply force, but as you probably know, it's asking for trouble with all but the gentlest horses. | ||
| Clint Hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 246 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.232.232  Rating: N/A |
...oh for the simple times when one horse equalled 1 hp, and one big horse = one 1 big horse power ? |