Posted by ScottyHOMEy on September 29, 2009 at 12:45:08 from (70.105.232.48):
I've been wondering for a while . . .
The last couple of years, the cat got out of the bag on the air-cooled horsepower wars. A single motor could be rated for any where from 12-16 hp. A small motor might turn up on a small rider or a push mower and be advertised as 12 hp on both. They got caught with their jewels hangin' out and have pretty much put a stop to it, advertising torque and other measures now for the consumer to compare.
So a while back a neighbor, young guy intent on having the newest best and biggest of everything in the neighborhood, comes home with a shiny green tractor (yellow accents and seat) with a 54" mower deck under it and tells us all about the wonders of its 26hp water-cooled powerplant.
So I get to thinkin' my BN came off the line back in '47 rated for putting somethin' on the order of 17 to the ground and 19 onto the PTO. Also get to thinkin' that his wonderful littlle machine ain't gonna do the work the BN will. I tried to break the news to him gently.
It might be interesting to know, if anybody has any idea, but I couldn't care less what the neighbor's green weenie puts to the ground.
What I'm more interseted in is if anybody has any idea what an IH 113, like what went into the A/B series, put out for horsepower before it got into the friction losses to gears and moving the weight of the tractor around. I know there were variations on it (gas or dual-fuel, different pistons . . .) I'd think the U2 power unit would be a good reference, but I'm not having any luck finding numbers for it.
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