Scrapyard Score!!

[Smokeydog]

My smooth bucket original cutting blade was worn 2” back on the sides and 1” in the middle. Bevel was worn on the underside. Not a candidate for a bolt in toothbar. BXpanded made a special one to weld in. Unbelievable the digging difference in hard ground. Pulls up brush and trees with little effort. V-tooth design is perfect. Hit rocks hard enough to stall 60hp 4x4 tractor with no damage. Tough steel. Hot rolled or cold rolled would severely be damaged or worn.
Scrapyard is one of regular haunts for fabrication materials. Sometimes see old/new grader or snowplow blades.

 

[Thomas]

True so many times..."One mans junk another mans treasure" :thumbsup:

 

[yomax4]

For $15 or $20 I will take a chance.

Once you get it all cut out and holes drilled. It will be easy to harden it and or hard surface it or both. I'm making one too. I bought a tooth bar that's way too heavy duty for my tractor so I'm going to make a copy.

 

[tomplum]

I love it when I stumble upon stuff I actually need in the drops section! Good deal for you. The yard I deal with has a real cheap bin that not much you ever want is in but there 50-60 cent section does well enough. That's where my tooth bar came out of. It's done lots of leveling and scraping still looks and works great. I don't think the Piranha is hardened. Doesn't state something like heavy duty steel or something vague?

 

[Smokeydog]

Can’t harden hot rolled steel.

Met with the folks at BXpanded for them to make a custom weld on Piranha toothbar. Their steel, cutting and fabrication are trade secrets. Suspect AR500+ (120,000+psi) steel. Boast they hadn’t had a PTB price increase in over 10 years. Investing in equipment and techniques. Amazing product that greatly improves my farm work.

All for experimenting and trying new ideas. Please keep us informed on your progress and evaluation.

 

[PILOON]

Our main scrap yard cleaned up and closed shop.
A nice steel fabricator that also sold cut offs went bankrupt.
Major fabricator shop that was extremely well equipped was sold and they now won't service DIY guys.

So we are now down to one big (read full lengths only) supplier that always was the priciest but had everything in stock.

Trump tarifs (am in Canada) have not helped but also the newer generation is not much into the DIY as mine is.
They simply take out their CC and charge it up.

When my CUT breaks down I take out my tools and fix it.
New gen calls the dealer.

When I wanted a snow plow I had shop curl my blade from steel I had and I welded it up. That set me back all of $200. while this generation would charge up that $3000 blade and max out his CC.

Well my DIY days are about over anyway at my age but thankfully I can afford to retire as I want as my DIY days allowed me to save up enough to do so.
Unlike many I know I don't plan on the gov't to look after me, besides I have lots of bed frame angle sides to weld up many more projects, LOL.

 

[Reb954]

Can稚 harden hot rolled steel.

Met with the folks at BXpanded for them to make a custom weld on Piranha toothbar. Their steel, cutting and fabrication are trade secrets. Suspect AR500+ (120,000+psi) steel. Boast they hadn稚 had a PTB price increase in over 10 years. Investing in equipment and techniques. Amazing product that greatly improves my farm work.

All for experimenting and trying new ideas. Please keep us informed on your progress and evaluation.

Just for clarification, how the material is rolled, hot or cold, has nothing to do with whether it can be heat treated. High carbon material also comes hot rolled just as low carbon material.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I love it when I stumble upon stuff I actually need in the drops section! Good deal for you. The yard I deal with has a real cheap bin that not much you ever want is in but there 50-60 cent section does well enough. That's where my tooth bar came out of. It's done lots of leveling and scraping still looks and works great. I don't think the Piranha is hardened. Doesn't state something like heavy dutyView attachment 596313 steel or something vague?

Looks awesome! I have been doing some research on case hardening. But I think I will make it, use it and see if hardening is even necessary. Now I just need to find the time to fire up the plasma cutter.

 

[tomplum]

Thanks. You are really just drawing a bunch of W's. Just had to think about not over cutting the back of the tooth.

 

[Mace Canute]

Just for clarification, how the material is rolled, hot or cold, has nothing to do with whether it can be heat treated. High carbon material also comes hot rolled just as low carbon material.

This is true! :thumbsup: