Bad weld photos

[sixdogs]

Considering all the beautiful welds posted here by real artists, I thought you might enjoy these photos of a piece of farm equipment I bought. I have already burned the offending pieces off and ground the areas smooth. A little touch up this spring and ready for paint.

The photos show the weld was so cold I was able to torch and grind it off with ease. I'm only an intermediate welder but stuff like this amazes me and it's all over the place, especially on farm stuff.

 

[Reyer Farms]

Well, it looks like a patch it up and get it back in the field job. The welds are not as bad as the fit up, but I understand where your coming from. Good job with torch. Look forward to repaired and ready post.

 

[Shield Arc]

You want to see a bad weld?:laughing: This is probably the worst weld I've ever been around. We were just getting started on building a work trestle that would provide access to a work platform roughly the size of a football field on the Washington side of the Columbia river. I was out in the river about 100-feet from shore over seeing the rig up of the derrick that would drive all the water pile. Very good friend of mine was over seeing the driving of the land based trestle pile. They were driving short pile, if the blow count didn't come up to spec the welding crew would add another section. This buddy of mine called me on the radio, and asked if I would come to the beach and help the weldor set his machine, (wire feeder). Take note, this is a certified weldor! When I walked up first thing that crossed my mind was WTF! Only took a few seconds to dial the kids machine in for him. But his weld looked like sheet! I walked over to my buddy and asked him if that pile was driving real hard, he said no it was going out of sight. I replied he should have that weld cut out, and start over! But we were so far behind schedule at this point. We decided to go ahead and drive it. I went back out to the derrick. When the crew swung the land driver over to drive this badly welded pile I walked over to the side of the derrick to watch. By the 3rd blow of the hammer I knew we were in trouble! Pile broke, pile went one way, hammer went the other way. Amazing no one didn't get hurt. But the hammer fell on the hood of my company pickup, drove the engine right into the mud.

 

[Reyer Farms]

You want to see a bad weld?:laughing: This is probably the worst weld I've ever been around. We were just getting started on building a work trestle that would provide access to a work platform roughly the size of a football field on the Washington side of the Columbia river. I was out in the river about 100-feet from shore over seeing the rig up of the derrick that would drive all the water pile. Very good friend of mine was over seeing the driving of the land based trestle pile. They were driving short pile, if the blow count didn't come up to spec the welding crew would add another section. This buddy of mine called me on the radio, and asked if I would come to the beach and help the weldor set his machine, (wire feeder). Take note, this is a certified weldor! When I walked up first thing that crossed my mind was WTF! Only took a few seconds to dial the kids machine in for him. But his weld looked like sheet! I walked over to my buddy and asked him if that pile was driving real hard, he said no it was going out of sight. I replied he should have that weld cut out, and start over! But we were so far behind schedule at this point. We decided to go ahead and drive it. I went back out to the derrick. When the crew swung the land driver over to drive this badly welded pile I walked over to the side of the derrick to watch. By the 3rd blow of the hammer I knew we were in trouble! Pile broke, pile went one way, hammer went the other way. Amazing no one didn't get hurt. But the hammer fell on the hood of my company pickup, drove the engine right into the mud.

Danggit boy! It's all fun and games till somebody gets hurt I have one on my other phone of a stringer on a staircase at a plant. Weight of the hammer or bred of the dog is the only ify part. I'll try to find it and some others.




Mount for pneumatic cylinder, when they hired me they asked "are you sure you can weld" when I showed up I knew why.

 

[hodge]

Danggit boy! It's all fun and games till somebody gets hurt I have one on my other phone of a stringer on a staircase at a plant. Weight of the hammer or bred of the dog is the only ify part. I'll try to find it and some others.



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Mount for pneumatic cylinder, when they hired me they asked "are you sure you can weld" when I showed up I knew why.

So booger welds do really look like boogers.

 

[sixdogs]

Well, it looks like a patch it up and get it back in the field job. The welds are not as bad as the fit up, but I understand where your coming from. Good job with torch. Look forward to repaired and ready post.

Here it is ground smooth and metal pounded flat again. Some of the pieces welded to the frame broke loose with a whack of a 2 lb hammer.

 

[sixdogs]

When we first moved into a house by the Main Rd, a State Trooper drove in one day and asked if it would be OK for a guy to park his trailer in my barn drive until it could be welded correctly. I was stumped but, OK sure.

Anyway, the trailer was grossly overloaded with farm junk poorly strapped on and welds that I do not know how to reproduce. I'm not experienced enough but figure the heat was on the lowest setting with the wrong rod and repeated welds over uncleaned slag might do it. Maybe toss in a cool day.

We found a welding shop he could go to and he was off to greener pastures but I'll bet he never even stopped. I didn't want to weld on that since some weak link might give way and it would bounce back on me.

 

[Reyer Farms]

Here it is ground smooth and metal pounded flat again. Some of the pieces welded to the frame broke loose with a whack of a 2 lb hammer.

Very nice, very nice. Well done sixdogs.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I was a pipe welder and welding supervisor before I got into quality management role. I have ran test booths for testing welders and believe me, I have seen some of the worst welds imaginable. Guys come in to test on pipe and barely know how to put on the welding hood and just hope they can get a job and practice to get better before getting fired. It rarely works that way, some cheat and try to roll out the test coupon but its easy to spot a repositioned coupon.
Heres a funny one, had a guy in to take a TIG welding test. Gave him some tungsten, 3 lengths of ER70S-2 bare wire and the weld coupons and put him in a booth. A while later one of my foremans came into the office and told me "You gotta see this" We went to the booth and the guy had not used the tungsten in the TIG torch but had put one of the 36" long bare wires in the tig torch and was trying to strike an arc with it on the test coupon. He had arc marks all over it. Of course all it was doing was touch and instantly stick and then he would jerk, pull, twist and try to get it loose. LMAO. The foreman ribbed him a bit and suggested he needed more amps etc before finally telling him what to do. We did give him a short lesson in TIG welding and he admitted that he never seen a TIG rig before. I even tried him on stick but he couldnt weld stick rod either. But he got a little free practice and some insight into how to run a test. Someday he might have ended up as a welder somewhere.

 

[Shield Arc]

Gary back in the 70s when I worked in a tank shop, I was welding something on the shop floor. Picked up my hood and the shop superintendent was standing there with a girl I'd never seen before. He said Shield Arc here is your new partner, put her to work. I needed to cut more parts, and the girl needed to get ready for work. I walked by the superintendent on the way to the saw. I asked him what her story was, he said he just hired her, she had just got out of some fancy welding school in Boston, OK. I cut the pieces I needed, when I walked back the work area she was standing there waiting on me. I laid out where the pieces went, told her to start welding, and I'd go get more material. Later she walked up to me and said something was wrong with the Mig machine. I said that's strange it was just purring a few minutes ago. I walked back to the work area, it looked like a porcupine had crawled up on the plate. I asked her to show me how the machine was working. She held the gun about 2-feet from the plate, and pulled the trigger.:laughing: