Steel Question

[TheBigRedArcher]

Ok, so i was driving home from work the other day and saw a service truck (I guess like the kind that works on loaders and such) run over whjat looked like a pipe in the road. As the "pipe" bounced over to the curb I thought to myself that doesn't look right, pipes usually squish flat when that size of a truck runs them over. So I turned around and went to check it out, lands up it is the shaft out of a hydrolic piston or accuator arm from a tractor that had sheared off and being unsecured in the back of this guys truck fell out. I picked it up... all 3 feet of it and took it home. I do not forge at this point but might get into it a bit later on.

my question is: is this good knife steel and how do i find out what kind of steel it is?

TBRA

[kbaknife]

According to their site, there is a Fastenal in Cedar Park and Pflugerville.
http://www.fastenal.com/web/locations.ex
Take a sample to them and have them send it off and have it tested.
Some of them do not even know they offer this service.