Bull dozier teeth

[sirupatespecial]

New to the forum. Looking over all the posts and subjects has been very interesting. Pretty much anything you would need to know about knives and knife making can be found here. So, it got me to thinking...We have a huge marble quarry here. Very large machinery. Huge dozer's and drag buckets and such. My friend who works there get's the worn out "teeth" after they replace them. They are probably a foot long maybe nine inches wide at the top tapering down. They are just laying around the shop. My buddy uses them for weights for a trot line.

Anyway, my question is, would this steel make good knife blades? Dang things weigh probably 25 pounds or so and they are just being scrapped. Don't know what I would do with them, I sure don't do any forging.But it sure seems a waste to just see them scrapped.

 

[marcinek]

Probably too soft.

That said, you made a very good knife joke in your post title.

 

[sirupatespecial]

Yea well Potato, Potatoe. Heck what do I know.

 

[SOLEIL]

Welcome to the forum. Although the teeth are very tough and can handle a lot of abuse they would be too soft for knife blades. The softness enables them to deform instead of break giving them longer life under extreme conditions. If they were hard enough for knife blade use they would have broken long ago.

 

[sodak]

Yea well Potato, Potatoe. Heck what do I know.

Bob Dozier is a very respected knife maker, so your post will get a lot of attention. If it was a slip, it was a good one!

 

[sirupatespecial]

Thanks for the replies. Guess that idea is out the window. They do make great trot line weights tho!