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Old 07-23-2008, 01:50 PM
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Some of the commercial tines are medium carbon steels like 1050 or 4140; kind of expensive in large chunks!

The teeth are often hard faced to make them more wear resistant and so the alloy is chosen to make them easy to weld to.

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