Anything welding

Oh ok I gotcha. Well good job on the quick work then. And yeah I hate doin "special favors" for my guy friends too .....

 

Heres my current bumper I threw together in 2 days only because I had some tubing laying around that wasn't quite enough for a set of sliders





No wrap around supports yet.. ran out of tubing but probably leaving for PA sometime soon for a weld test so it wont be seeing much abuse anyhow

 

weld test you say, what kinda test?

 

Nothing fancy.
Structural 3/4G plate
SMAW 1/8 and FCAW .045 wire

 

damn dude, that sounds up my alley. Wish it was closer. Im really fed up with my current job and want to get out in the field and weld like i had originally planed to.

 

Not to far of a drive lol

 

I just drove my truck from orlando to knoxville and thought i was going to go crazy. Where do you find out about your jobs?

 

I had a buddy call me about this one literally this morning and im set up for a test Monday morning after next week

 

Good luck to you.

 

thats exactly how i came across the one test that i took (2in 120 sch 6g tig root 50% tig 50%7018 with cap) but since then ive never heard anything else and i found a fabrication job

 

Yea this will be the first job ive ever tested for, my last one I was more of a laborer at a Union site up in North Dakota. but I run my own little fab shop here when im home to pick up for a little slack of no incoming checks weekly while I wait for the next job to come along

 

YES! Get the 211i with the attachments. I LOVE mine. That thing is AWESOME!


By the way, here is a close up after grinding and paint.

 

damn i wanted to go up to ND after i was done with school but never knew how to get started in all of that.

I really want to get a welder right now so i can practice and then go out and test when i find something but i dont have any metal working tools at the house so i wouldnt have any cut or prepped metal to play with

 

I figured while I was on the Job in ND id order up the stuff to help me keep some sort of income while I was at home and that's what ive been doing. Get in touch with JV Industrial Companies, its the non union side of the company I worked for in ND, Madison Industrial Services Team. but they do a lot more southwest state work at refineries and such, Just need to pass a 6G sch 80 pipe, tig root and hot 1/8 7018 out

 

thanks man, I had an AWS cert on that when i came out of school. but i let that cert slip

 

No problem, they have a job coming up in AK I wanted to go on but never heard anything back..

 

i just sent them a brief email, my biggest thing is getting a test right now. I will have to get off work and travel. And then hopefully pass the test and get the job

 

Sweet thanks for the info. Guess I'll be saving for a little bit. Clean looking bumper by the way.

 

Since the forum topic did say "anything welding" figured I'd add a couple pics of my ATV bush trailer.

I used ballon tires with axles I fabricated from 2 inch trailer recievers. Pull the pin and tires can be swapped out for skis for winter usage.
I even fabricated the fenders myself as there was nothing on the market big enough for the atv tires.

Enjoy
Wildwr

 

Awesome work!