gf beranek
Old Schooler
Birds of a feather.
What is a "Certified" welder?
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MasterBlaster
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I was drawing $65 bucks a week unemployment from the Navy, and it was running out. Treework was a bump up to $100 a week! 
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Well lets face it ,most of us got into something because first of all we made money at it .That could be a regional thing too .
It may not really be what you would prefer to do but never the less what you do .
For example I dearly love to invent,work metal and fabricate things .I make a hell of a lot more money doing this electrical stuff though .While it can be a shocking business ,it has done me quite well .
In the PNW ,where the tall timber grows it is only natural the employment would be found in the woods .
Maybe the golf states or the grandbanks it could be gleened from the sea .Ya just gotta do what ya gotta do .
It may not really be what you would prefer to do but never the less what you do .
For example I dearly love to invent,work metal and fabricate things .I make a hell of a lot more money doing this electrical stuff though .While it can be a shocking business ,it has done me quite well .
In the PNW ,where the tall timber grows it is only natural the employment would be found in the woods .
Maybe the golf states or the grandbanks it could be gleened from the sea .Ya just gotta do what ya gotta do .
gf beranek
Old Schooler
"And let's not forget the old molten redhot slag bit in the ear routine. I don't like flaming ear hair."
Aluminum spool guns was a MF for that. The molten berries burning into your earwax was disturbing while trying to concentrate and wet a bead through an inside overhead corner.
Aluminum spool guns was a MF for that. The molten berries burning into your earwax was disturbing while trying to concentrate and wet a bead through an inside overhead corner.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Oh Lawdy I've had those fireflys jump into my shirt,burn half the hair off my chest and end up around the family jewels .That's a fire you don't really want to beat out ,ugh .
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Oh I forgot to mention something .I have a little bit of native American in my veins .I tan up in summer time like a west coast surfer .I have so many weld burns on my arms I look like a mainliner .Little white spots every where .
sotc
Dormant hero!!
we used to like to fire the cutting torch up from someone elses arc thats good for a rise
thats good for a rise
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Speaking of gas ,a story .
When we were building an engine plant for Honda they had everything in kind of like miniature .They had a ladle for holding molten steel ,about as large as a barrel ,lined with fire brick .
Before you use a ladle like this you must dry the moisture out of the fire brick using a torch .This moron Honda employee had about 80 -90 feet of hose reeled out ,went to light the torch and discovered he had not turned on the gas at the bottles .Left the big rosebud torch with the valve opened inside that ladle then waddled back to turn on the gas then waddled back and lit the torch .
You guessed it ,terrific explosion ,blew him ass over apple cart ,fire brick every where .I nearly got trampled to death by people leaving the building like rats from a sinking ship . Would you believe it ,he was unhurt ,lucky guy .
When we were building an engine plant for Honda they had everything in kind of like miniature .They had a ladle for holding molten steel ,about as large as a barrel ,lined with fire brick .
Before you use a ladle like this you must dry the moisture out of the fire brick using a torch .This moron Honda employee had about 80 -90 feet of hose reeled out ,went to light the torch and discovered he had not turned on the gas at the bottles .Left the big rosebud torch with the valve opened inside that ladle then waddled back to turn on the gas then waddled back and lit the torch .
You guessed it ,terrific explosion ,blew him ass over apple cart ,fire brick every where .I nearly got trampled to death by people leaving the building like rats from a sinking ship . Would you believe it ,he was unhurt ,lucky guy .
SkwerI
Treehouser
Your complete disdain for anything or anybody associated with foreign car makers just drips off your posts, Al. It's getting old.
And from your description of the guy, he sounds like a typical UAW worker. I wonder how Honda was tricked into hiring him?
And from your description of the guy, he sounds like a typical UAW worker. I wonder how Honda was tricked into hiring him?
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
He was shall we say a minority and Honda had nothing to do with it other than the fact I was just relating to the place it happened at . Besides that your objecting to anything union is getting rather nonsensical too if you really must know .
I was merely pointing out that the use of a torch can be dangerous if not used properly ,why should that crank you up ?
A danged torch can kill you just as fast as a chainsaw .Grumpy .
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Burning your eyes when welding is a beech, I've done it twice. Man that smarts at night.
Proper welding shop just up the road from me, mostly doing building fabrication and this and that, two guys who are experts. I was slow on work, so they asked me to help them from time to time, and I could improve my skills. The last job I did with them was tig welding ladders into big stainless vats at a dairy product producing plant. It was an enjoyable job.
Proper welding shop just up the road from me, mostly doing building fabrication and this and that, two guys who are experts. I was slow on work, so they asked me to help them from time to time, and I could improve my skills. The last job I did with them was tig welding ladders into big stainless vats at a dairy product producing plant. It was an enjoyable job.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
Ah, then we have fabbing machine shops, or machining fab shop, depending on how you look at it.
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cutitup
Guest
I dunno.....
I like what I do and have worked pretty much every facet of welding. Constrution, eiquipment repair, ship building (which I really enjoyed because like tree work ya better be on your toes and lots of "pulling it outta your ass while working with very little" with rigging etc) and now I do "higher end" manufacturing. Mostly very tiny GTAW work with all sorts of differant materials. But I always enjoyed working outside and the sound of a chainsaw gets me jumpin'. So I guess it's just the human conditon to want what you don't have. Not that I don't do more then my fair share of felling and clmibing but I think ya'll know what I mean.
Oh and BTW I did lose most of my hearing in my left ear due to molten slag gettin' in there. It wasn't so much the slag but the infection that did the damage. So trust me it's NO JOKE.
I like what I do and have worked pretty much every facet of welding. Constrution, eiquipment repair, ship building (which I really enjoyed because like tree work ya better be on your toes and lots of "pulling it outta your ass while working with very little" with rigging etc) and now I do "higher end" manufacturing. Mostly very tiny GTAW work with all sorts of differant materials. But I always enjoyed working outside and the sound of a chainsaw gets me jumpin'. So I guess it's just the human conditon to want what you don't have. Not that I don't do more then my fair share of felling and clmibing but I think ya'll know what I mean.
Oh and BTW I did lose most of my hearing in my left ear due to molten slag gettin' in there. It wasn't so much the slag but the infection that did the damage. So trust me it's NO JOKE.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
You get one of those Kromer welders beany with a bill and put your favorite ear under it .
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Tzed250
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Tzed250
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Tree Reb
TreeHouser
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Wow...it is a Juggernaut!! Cool critter.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Well it should be obvious then that the mechanism is not made of mild steel .I doubt seriously if the nice paint would be recognizable after about 1 minute of operation of that long . Kind of like lip stick .
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
You must be a good smoocher, Al.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Never had any complaints .
sotc
Dormant hero!!
impressive machine
