Scrapyard Score!!

[Smokeydog]

Sorry, I should not have been so general and stand corrected about hardening of steel.
We have a great scrap yard. No telling what treasures you can find. They have selection of steels, SS, aluminum, copper, exotics, bolts and hardware. Sorted and price accordingly. High carbon steel is more valuable, priced higher and they know their material and market. Steel is quite variable in its use and physical characteristics.

A bucket edge is very demanding of the material. All the force from your tractor’s weight, momentum, lift can be transferred to a single tooth.

The Piranha bar is usually sold as a bolt in tooth bar. They made a special weld on bar for my application.
When they make a bolt in bar, they have to bend the bar blank into a U while welding on the tabs the clip to bucket cutting edge so the bar is straight after welding. Spray weld transfer to get the penetration. Just few of the many engineering design and fabrication techniques developed that created their product.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Sorry, I should not have been so general and stand corrected about hardening of steel.
We have a great scrap yard. No telling what treasures you can find. They have selection of steels, SS, aluminum, copper, exotics, bolts and hardware. Sorted and price accordingly. High carbon steel is more valuable, priced higher and they know their material and market. Steel is quite variable in its use and physical characteristics.

A bucket edge is very demanding of the material. All the force from your tractor’s weight, momentum, lift can be transferred to a single tooth.

The Piranha bar is usually sold as a bolt in tooth bar. They made a special weld on bar for my application.
When they make a bolt in bar, they have to bend the bar blank into a U while welding on the tabs the clip to bucket cutting edge so the bar is straight after welding. Spray weld transfer to get the penetration. Just few of the many engineering design and fabrication techniques developed that created their product.

It looks like an amazing product. I hope mine is a quarter as useful as theirs. If not its only 1/17th the price.

 

[Smokeydog]

Cost is relative to what your time is worth and I do a lot for pleasure. I make a lot of things because they are not available. Learning most often from mistakes. My imagination is far greater than my fabrication skills. My hope is not that you find a way that is just cheaper but create a better improved tool and share with us.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Cost is relative to what your time is worth and I do a lot for pleasure. I make a lot of things because they are not available. Learning most often from mistakes. My imagination is far greater than my fabrication skills. My hope is not that you find a way that is just cheaper but create a better improved tool and share with us.

I agree! I see great value in using my tools, growing my skills and making something that works well enough for me to be proud of. I do not hold great hope in making a product that is BETTER than the PTB, just something that works and I can be proud of.

 

[Gofast]

I agree! I see great value in using my tools, growing my skills and making something that works well enough for me to be proud of. I do not hold great hope in making a product that is BETTER than the PTB, just something that works and I can be proud of.

I agree with everything you just said. I also really enjoy buying basically what someone else did not want and making something useful out of it.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I agree with everything you just said. I also really enjoy buying basically what someone else did not want and making something useful out of it.

^^^ YES!!

 

[love4god]

awsome score my friend,
I as well enjoy buying scrap,
and finding ways to make what i need,
I usually build way overkill now, due to previous failure's
a tooth bar is on my list to build aswell,
as a ton of other things,LOL
Godbless

 

[Gofast]

I want to thank you for posting about your find. It made me realize I needed to look for a better place to buy steel for my projects.
I just came back with 260 pounds of steel for .20 a pound way cheaper than I have been paying.

How did your Tooth bar turn out?

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I want to thank you for posting about your find. It made me realize I needed to look for a better place to buy steel for my projects.
I just cane back with 260 pounds of steel for .20 a pound way cheaper than I have been paying.

How did your Tooth bar turn out?

Nice score!! Scrapyards are amazing aren't they?

Haven't had time to work on the tooth bar yet, I think I am going to try to get some of it knocked out this weekend.

 

[jaxs]

I want to thank you for posting about your find. It made me realize I needed to look for a better place to buy steel for my projects.
I just came back with 260 pounds of steel for .20 a pound way cheaper than I have been paying.

How did your Tooth bar turn out?

Besides some misc angle and plate this week,like new aluminum 12' skate wheel conveyer for $13 :cool2: