
Originally Posted by
Tim R.
Try welding with your left hand looking at a mirror while standing on a scaffold pole 125' of the ground. You know the job's going to suck when you hire on and they give you 2 mirrors with magnetic bases. Oh what great fun.
Best I ever saw was when I worked at a shipyard. I was just a glorified ironworker that was allowed to tack, but had to request a "real" welder in order to nail things down permanent.
In one instance I had to tack two pieces of pipe to a bulkhead on the inside of a tank. The tank was probably only about 2 ft square and had one opening in the top. I had to hang upside down and looking backwards to get it stuck to the wall, about 6" off the deck, and thought that was a major accomplishment. When the welder showed up I thought "weld that, sucker". The welder takes one look, tapes a mirror to the right boot, bends the rod into about a 45, sticks one arm and mirrored foot into the tank and welded that sucker 360 deg without breakin a sweat. SHE gets done and says "no sweat, eh?". She was from wisconsin and the best **** welder I'd ever seen. Anytime I needed crap welded I always requested her because she never *****ed, would work her *** off ( a rather nice one at that), and always got the job done.
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