> > The only use for these measurements that comes to mind is possibly loading > a horse trailer
There is that. But calculating the rough main body weight bulk is important in racing. TALL horses that are also lean race faster. Its a but more complicated than just weight as "hands" (height) come into it. Hands are a proxy measure of stride. Its the stride to bulk/weight ratio that is likely the Holy Grail in all this. On to the African Swallow ... Josiah Mark S. wrote: > > The existing formula assumes that the horse is a cylinder of flesh. To > make it more accurate, you would want to do the estimates for the head and > legs separately. I'm pretty sure you could make a separate calculation > based on girth for the additive head and legs (the head and legs would have > a higher percentage bone mass) and get within 10%. > > The only use for these measurements that comes to mind is possibly loading > a horse trailer and you need to make sure you're within limits but don't > need to be overly precise. > > Ok, now what about the load capacity of an African swallow ... > > Mark > > On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 10:05:01 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Ciao Mark S. >> >> Small side footnote ... >> >> I notice that horse calculations tack on 50lbs. >> >> >> Its true that in guesstimating horse weight from tape measures in actual >> stables there is a kind of rule-of-thumb to "add on a few pounds" the >> larger and older the horse is. The downside is that if you make that >> rule-of-thumb into a codification in computer calculations its starts >> drifting off from guesstimate to stab-in-the-dark. I don't think that >> formula would well for tiny Shetland Ponies, for instance. But mostly its >> in the ballpark. >> >> Josiah >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/66fea393-d89b-4d4c-8ef0-9ca238d520ca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
