Welding in the rain ?

[Barking Mat]

What's the score on this ?

I'm supposed to be arc welding tomorrow, more boat trailer fun, but it's going to pee down tomorrow.

10 - 20 mm of rain, I'll almost certainly be working outside, I can put the three phase welding machine under a tarp or something, but I've never welded in the rain before.

Is it a no no ? Take an umbrella / parasol.

No, don't have a suitable tent.

Thoughts please.

Thanks people.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Barking Mat Get the new lad to do it.

Keep your work area dry, keep the return as close as posible. Rig a shelter over you, keep you dry.

Don't be a conductor.

 

[bourbon]

Yep, as above. get someone else to do it. He's got to learn after all

 

[Barking Mat]

@Barking Mat Get the new lad to do it.

Keep your work area dry, keep the return as close as posible. Rig a shelter over you, keep you dry.

Don't be a conductor.

Not technically work, i.e. Day off tomorrow, bit of private work.

I've already got him to lay down a bead, he's got some practicing to do.

Yep, as above. get someone else to do it. He's got to learn after all

No, deffo me.

 

[Osu817]

Keep your gloves dry! Don't touch the thing you are welding, and make use of any weather windows. Also, keep any toolboxes closed...

 

[Porkypine]

When I was on the railway I had lots of this, if it was raining hard luck, you still had to go out and do it my main memory is getting a bit of a belt every time I changed a rod ! ....Keeping your gloves dry just wasn't an option unfortunately...still I'm sure it "builds character".. Happy days eh !

 

[Barking Mat]

Try to stay dry, keep gloves dry, don't electrocute myself...

What could possibly go wrong ?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Try to stay dry, keep gloves dry, don't electrocute myself...

What could possibly go wrong ?

Knowing you.
WW3.
Or.
Beer.

 

[Barking Mat]

Hmmm...

 

[Pete.]

When I had divers doing Broco work in salt water they wore marigolds under their diving gloves.

 

[Tigman]

Jump just as you put the Rod in the stinger !

 

[Barking Mat]

When I had divers doing Broco work in salt water they wore marigolds under their diving gloves.

I like that idea, thanks.

 

[Tigman]

Both feet off the ground !

 

[Barking Mat]

@Barking Mat Get the new lad to do it.

Keep your work area dry, keep the return as close as posible. Rig a shelter over you, keep you dry.

Don't be a conductor.

I'd never ask anyone to do something I wasn't prepared to do myself.

 

[Barking Mat]

Both feet off the ground !

Wellington boots perhaps.

 

[MattF]

Wellington boots perhaps.

Wise move. Wear some rain collectors.

 

[Barking Mat]

Right, I've just phoned them up, they can get the trailer into a barn / shed.

Sod welding in the rain, seems a bit, dangerous.

 

[8ob]

Right, I've just phoned them up, they can get the trailer into a barn / shed.

Sod welding in the rain, seems a bit, dangerous.

Its not that bad, a tingle at its worst

Bob

 

[ajlelectronics]

I'd never ask anyone to do something I wasn't prepared to do myself.

Hmmm, can you reach?

 

[Gareth J]

I did see a HSE report where somebody, probably a farmer, had got killed with an arc welder. May have even been on here. I recall it was all manner of wrong though, like he was welding while lying in a puddle and clamping a rod to bare wire with his teeth (well not that, but I forgot the details). Have had a few tickles in the damp before but always given a bit more respect since reading that.

Edit;
I might have embellished a bit;

NASD - Farmer Dies When Electrocuted While Welding Feed Bunker Wagon

Summary Figure 1. Welder in wooden building On August 6, 2003, a 44-year-old male farmer was welding a feed bunker wagon when he was electrocuted. The portable 240-volt plug-in cord-connected Hobart welder was in disrepair. The power cord and the cables had damaged insulation exposing the conductor

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