I have used an old broke down refridgerator with a 100w light bulb installed to keep rods dry, but I guess it depends where you live and the climate. This might not work too well in Canada, but Florida would be okay.

Here is a project I started one winter to pull and stretch field wire on a State Highway job. All the wire had to be pulled on the outside of the fence, with little or no room between the right-of-ways and the woods. The yellow contraption is an old frame I built a few years earlier to double stack ...

It looks great Darrin. Did you paint it or get it powder coated? You did a great job of getting it looking square, as you well know carpenters and brick layers combined don't do a very good job of leaving a square opening.

If you are going to build it outside in the open, then use the flux core wire, however there is some clean up work to be done when you use the flux core, as it doesn't burn as clean as the gas wire. You are on the right track cleaning up your steel first, the cleaner the steel the better the weld. I...

More photos of the Security Gate Project.

Here is a project I wanted to share with you guys. I started this project one winter when the construction work was slow. I built the gates out of scrap from the recycle dumpster, with a lot of gas cutting and grinding. The posts are made from 18" well liner, cut in 8' sections and filled with ...

I use Google Sketchup. You can download the free version from Google. Most CAD programs are horrendously expensive, so this is a bargain, unless you have equipment with CNC. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles the other programs have, but it is very user friendly. I particularly like the 3D m...

I would say, that one of the worse possible welding jobs that I have encountered, was overhead welding in a confined space on a galvanized barge. Slag balls down the neck all the way to the underpants and crotch area, just man up and take the pain. The fumes were horrific, even with a ventilation sy...

I would like to thank Jody for posting the idea in the first place. Thanks cobber. http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/portable-bandsaw-stand.html I have a couple of friends that have a welding and machine shop I go to and use their specialized equipment. This idea was brilliant, so I had to build o...

I am a self taught welder, that has worked globally in construction and would have liked to go to school full time for a year and learn everything there is to learn about welding. However I don't think there is such a school, that can realistically teach you all this welding technology in that perio...