Found in my back yard... Something steel?

[Jono]

Found this chunk about 5 inches in. I gave it a vinegar bath and a scraped off some rust. I wanted to see it so I took a dremel and ground it down to a polish. It's also magnetic. My initial thought is a tooth from a backhoe or something. Please tell me it's not something valuable and I've now damaged it.

 

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[Tony in SC]

Piece of broken plow.

 

[A2coins]

Piece of a plow or just scrap

 

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Welcome to tnet from MI Tommy

 

[DCMatt]

Cooking pot fragment, wood stove fragment... Hard to say.

Go dig some more bits of it and we'll try again.

 

[HuntinDog]

I'm with DCMatt it looks like it might be part of an old cooking stove.

and Welcome to TreasureNet

 

[Davers]

Good to recycle as "metal is money" throw it in with some other scrap iron & get paid. If you want.

 

[winslow]

Good to recycle as "metal is money" throw it in with some other scrap iron & get paid. If you want.

Davers is right. All metal has value .. even rusty junk. I have 5 gallon buckets full of sorted metal found while detecting. Nothing gets thrown in the garbage. It all gets converted to cash. It adds up!

 

[Jono]

Thank you for the replies and the encouragement. I'm still learning the ropes so I appreciate the feedback. I figured it was scrap from my neighborhood's construction. The general area was swampy marsh before they built it in 1998. I have a bin of metal bits, cans, pop-tabs, and bottlecaps I've "discovered" nearby. I see it all as detecting practice for when I can visit some local beaches... and this summer hopefully spend a day in the Vero Beach area (Spanish treasure dreamin').