Welding Tips and Tricks

Hi everyone.

Here is a link to a Youtube video of pipe welding. It shows how 2 professional pipeliners work together. I have talked via youtube to the dude who made the vid. He gave me permission to link it here and also answered my questions. As i am sure, any of yours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm32yngs ... ature=plcp

A great insight into pipe welding.

Mick

Thanks for posting this Mick!
It sure is a beautiful thing when you seem teamwork like that in action. It is downright poetic to watch!

Only once in my career have I worked with someone I gelled with like this. We were both fitter/welders, so neither was the other's helper, yet we were constantly each other's helper.

We were sheeting out the walls of the coal bunkers at a three-boiler coal-fired cogen. One day, my buddy and I were working one bunker, while two teams were in each of the other two bunkers. That day we fit fifteen sheets by ourselves, while the other bunkers were fitted with four sheets in one, and three in the other. (These were 24' sheets of 3/8 carbon steel, of varying widths up to 16 feet.) The next day, the boss had everyone else stand down, and watch us for two hours just to see how we did it.

It did help the others a little, but unless you can truly work as a team, anticipate the other's actions and react, and just keep moving together, you won't put out the level of work the guys in the video did.

Kudos to them.

Steve

That's the way it's done. Pipeline, rock and roll the 5P downhill, damn hear flush cap and move on to the next. Believe it or not years ago I had a woman leaner that I swore could read my mind, always two steps ahead and if I was thinking about coffee I would raise my hood and she would have a cup in her hand. And she was no beast, kinda reminded me of Sally Field. Worked with her for 8 months on a NH3 line. She was a flea and I never ran across her again, but never forgot her.