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Aussie trams equivalent to 30 skateboarding rhinos
Ever wondered what the equivalent weight of a tram was in skateboarding rhinoceri? The answer is apparently 30, as any Aussie will tell you. rhino warning pic. Pic via media centre at Yarra Trams Pic via media centre at Yarra Trams The Beware The Rhino campaign (pictured) was created by Melbourne tram company to prevent …
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Tuesday 25th October 2016 13:06 GMT Mage
Re: Standard Units
What sort of skate board?
I used two bargain basement priced skateboards my kids had abandoned to move an AGA style solid fuel stove/oven/water heater. On my own, though I had a lever. It had taken SIX large Hurley players (similar size monster to a Munster Rugby player, but more dangerous) to put it where I was moving it from, so yes I can imagine a Rhino using two skate boards or one modified model.
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Tuesday 25th October 2016 11:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
We've been here before…
… as the late great Lester Haines would have told you if he was still around to do so.
So, how many rhinos does a tram weigh?
That grey thing that allegedly "needs plug-ins to view" can be viewed here, sans plug-ins.
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Tuesday 25th October 2016 21:43 GMT Adam 1
Re: We've been here before…
and as you pointed out then; "trams are designed for carrying passengers, and do not usually have the specialist equipment that would be required to weigh a rhino."
Why do people insist on trying to weigh rhinos using trams? Shirley there are more convenient, cheaper, easier to operate machines out there? Not to mention that both operating a tram and the handling of aggressive mammals weighting well over a ton each require substantial training and experience to do safely. Simply put, this is cost cutting gone mad.
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Tuesday 25th October 2016 12:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
If your trams weight over 50 tons then you are possibly, shall we say, over-egging the pudding somewhat at the design stage? What happened to efficiency and mass reduction? I have seen lots of new trams where it looked like the last thing they were interested in was providing any actual space for *passengers* to sit in them, rather the priority is make them look like the Space Shuttle, and people end up simply standing in the bendy corridors between the carriages, holding on for dear life. So, often more like low-flying Wurlitzers rather than transport. Of course, nice LCD screens with cartoons on, and unbelievably inflated ticket prices. Yay, whoopee.
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Tuesday 25th October 2016 18:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Even the heaviest suburban train we have here weights 25 metric tons apiece.
I mean, full-size trains, used for metro and suburban service, that can be pushed around by locomotives, with backup pneumatic lines for braking, with their own compressors to power their own automatic doors, if need be. Those are full-blown rail stock, way above tram scale. I know, because I work for one such rail company. Some over-egged puddins for sure!
And these lads can plow through 18-wheeler lorries like these were tin cans, because they have done so before. Combined weight 200 tons, 8 cars each composition, EMPTY.
Perhaps he is referring the whole combined tram weight, about six cars, by any chance? 8 metric tons, or a bit over 8000 kg per car, total 50 metric tons, is more on the tram scale of things...
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Sunday 30th October 2016 11:05 GMT Stoneshop
Re: Even the heaviest suburban train we have here weights 25 metric tons apiece.
Perhaps he is referring the whole combined tram weight, about six cars, by any chance? 8 metric tons, or a bit over 8000 kg per car, total 50 metric tons, is more on the tram scale of things...
As the problem, from the POV (or rather, lack of view) of an average traffic participant, is the energy present in the moving vehicles involved, the total mass is what matters, hence the 50 tons.
But there are two additional factors: I expect that a tram can and does reach higher velocities than a skateboarding rhino, and as kinetic energy goes up with the square of the speed, a tram at twice the speed of a skateboarding rhino already has four times the energy, so you'd then be up to 120 rhinos. Plus, getting those rhinos to form one near-rigid tram-like entity will be a problem in itself, never mind that rhinos* are somewhat more squishy than trams anyway.
* and other mammals except the wombat, once described to me as a bad-tempered moving furry tree trunk.
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