Steve Gray wrote: tonyh wrote: Sorry, but you fail to understand pulling power..
That's a rather harsh disparagement to a physicist.
Surely, the whole point of a yolking bar is to keep the animals (and load) "locked" together as a team. It's role in distributing forces is incidental.
It was stated (in some previous thread a long time ago) that oxen could not easily be controlled as a team. If you refer back to my previous posting you will see that my proposition was phrased as a question. I was querying whether (if that assertion be true) they might be utilised as a collection of individual pairs rather than as a team.
I understand that the pulling rates are different. Nevertheless each pair would produce a force on their individual rope and those forces would be cummulative at the load, whether or not they are attached to a central bar.
50 teams of Oxen, all with different lengths of rope. all walking at a different speed... The 'push pull' effect on the animals would be dreadful.
Have you ever been towed? or towed something?
Tony
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