WELDING: THE BEST WAY TO LEARN!

Wholeheartedly agree -I just finished a 60hr training course at my (not so local) trade school 2 x 3hr evenings a week for 10 weeks. Cost 300Euro. Course was beginners MMA (Stick to you yanks). Guy taught me everything including which welder/helmet to buy, rods to use AND where to get the cheapest steel..... Loved it.

I learned about welding. My daughter learned some fun new words to share with her friends at kindergarten. It's a win-win.

I just finished a 10 week mig welding course and for the first 8 weeks we had to use an arc, everyone was so angry at the time but when we got the mig in our hands it was too easy and everyone apologized to the instructor and thanked him afterwards and he said that happens after every course that he does.

I was a sculptor/artist but lost the use of my left arm & hand 7 years ago in a motorbike accident. Two weeks ago I brought myself a stick welder, best thing I've done in a long time; the possibilities and solutions opened up by the humble stick welder have rekindled a creativity and excitement I thought was long gone.

When I went to high school as a kid (one year out of four), I took "hot metals" class and they showed us how to weld. When I left, after that first year, I got a job building heat furnaces as an arc welder. Now they say that these type of classes are old fashioned and have been removed, replaced with more programming or graphic arts. Welding fed me for the first few years of my adult life. Thank God for those classes and I hate to think of the wasted opportunities for our kids to make a living. Bring back the shop classes!

came to waste some time before work, accidentally learned how to weld

“No old welders.”Haha. I had a welder friend who lived to be in his 80s. He was a dive welder. The lifetime of high pressures left him nearly deaf though, and he would puff out his lips frequently while breathing because he was so used to his regulator.

"Grinding and paint make me the welder I aint" well my grinding skills are getting world class..... now to improve on my painting.

Farm boy tip: if you're wearing rubber boots while welding, don't tuck your pant legs into your boots. As a kid, I was approaching our farm shop one day where my father was welding. I heard an obscene shout and saw a backwards somersaulting rubber boot come arcing out of the shop door and fly halfway across the yard, after a gob of hot slag went down his boot.

This guy? This guy makes me inspired to learn. I especially like how he grounds you by talking about not getting discouraged by perfect welds people basically stage and put on forums. This is the sort of mentor I'd be honored to work under.

"Like an East Indian ship breaking yard threw up in here". Thanks - Lumpy

I weld with 6010 almost every day doing pipeline. It welds really nicely, the 200lb gorilla just needs more skill to make it look nice. 7018 pretty much does the work for you.

'..burning metal hurts for a little while, just until the nerves are finally destroyed......' Nice.

fun vid! but I thought we were pretty clear on this.. gas welding this week, stick welding next week.

This reminds me of when I learned to weld. I asked grandpa if we could light those sparklers. lol

2:39 "When you actually make somethin, it feels good!" Brotha preach!!

MIG, in the wrong hands its just a metal caulking gun.

"I've quit better jobs than this" lmao

If I had a dollar for every time I said “I just gotta tac a couple pieces I don’t need my hood I’ll just shut my eyes” then come home and hear “ wtf happen to you how do you get a sun burn on night shift!”

I took welding and metal working at community college, but I just couldn't get that proficient. Several years later, I was working on cars at a state prison. I quickly picked up not just stick but also mig, as well as becoming pretty good at sheet metal. So yes, I learned more in prison than I did in community college.