Cleaning New Steel Stock

[Jesse masterson]

Building a bridge would definitely be defined as a crucial weld and should ne done with upmost care

 

[Rock knocker]

In my trade most foreman were riggers, and everyone of them were high ballers! And everyone of them thought weldors were nothing but dead beats!........................... When we built the West Seattle Bridge in the early 1980s I was working on the east end, right where the Spokane Street viaduct started

UA 32?

 

[Shield Arc]

UA 32?

No, I wish! :laughing:

 

[Rock knocker]

Ironheads? Them, and the BM's have the most wing-nut riggers as Supervisors.

 

[Shield Arc]

Ironheads? Them, and the BM's have the most wing-nut riggers as Supervisors.

Iron Workers is pretty close. More like a marine Iron Worker.
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[Rock knocker]

I was never around them. Met a pilebuck a time or two before, and they always seemed hopped up on stupid and macho

 

[Shield Arc]

Met a pilebuck a time or two before, and they always seemed hopped up on stupid and macho

Same thing.
I guess I shouldn't take that personal?

 

[Rock knocker]

Same thing.
I guess I shouldn't take that personal?

No, you're one of the good guys! I was talking about the ones who were mean to you.

I knew a Boilermaker who ended up as a C List weldor out at Valdez. He said that they would weld a scaffold to the pile, and then tack up the new pile on top of the existing. Then he would weld up some sch. 320 ( or some other ungodly wall thickness) x 32" pipe all day long hanging off the side of a pile at sea. Wild story!

 

[Shield Arc]

Oh they weren't mean, majority of them are ignorant of what it takes to be a weldor. And a few are just dumber than a box of rocks! And the rest just don't care, they want to get their work done as fast as they can.

When we did this project just down river of the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia, the Army Corp required the 10-feet dia pile be welded from both sides. Weldors would stand in a man basket hanging from the crane for hours welding on the inside.

 

[ericher69]

Oh they weren't mean, majority of them are ignorant of what it takes to be a weldor. And a few are just dumber than a box of rocks! And the rest just don't care, they want to get their work done as fast as they can.

When we did this project just down river of the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia, the Army Corp required the 10-feet dia pile be welded from both sides. Weldors would stand in a man basket hanging from the crane for hours welding on the inside.

Shield arc;

I've seen these welded with a robotic MIG setup before! What is the reason that the army core would require a human welder vs a robotic (human supervised) weld? Just asking for my own knowledge