Loosing power due to friction is true,so you would want to not use any more gears than necessary.The thing is that momentum has to be figured in.Even you yourself can pull a big load on flat ground and get it going with momentum.Get a hand jack,put it under a thousand pound pallet,and raise it up,push it,real slow at first,but once you get it moving you arent doing a lot to move it.Its that getting it started that is hard to do.If you can gradually increase the speed,you are going to have lots of gears,but with a transmission you are only using the minimum number of gears to direct the power through the transmission.Input gear,idler gear,out put gear,is all you are turning every shift you make.You arent turning 90 gears at one time,you are turning 5 or 6 gears,each shift.
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