Good welds

[Am333rcr]

Hi

I thought I would share a few pictures of the welding on shelves at work at an agricultural merchants that hold a large amount of gardening equipments other products. There will be a good bit of weight on it.

This is only two of them. The rest are no better

 

[arther dailey]

Wow, by that standard even I am competant,well maybe thats a slight exagerationarther

 

[Tigman]

they wont last long !

 

[wookie]

Sheeesh that's even an insult to pigeon cr*p, whoever did that should be shot or at least forced to stand underneath it while they stress test it.

 

[Bill Edwards]

If they're actually holding significant weight then the entire thing must be vastly over-engineered!

 

[julianthegypsy]

Any agricultural engineer should be able to do basic welding competantly, it's part of the job. That was done by someone who failed all his exams and managed to avoid all the practical classes completely. He should also avoid welding at all costs...

 

[dazza]

I never really noticed good and bad welds until i joined the forum and started learning. The local fab place seem to do more grinding than welding.

I've noticed some really nice gates which obviously took a lot of time but the welds mounting them are awful.

 

[gordon stephenson]

Those welds are not even good enough to be called bad, they are far worse than bad.

 

[Bsmith]

Worst I've seen on this forum, infact worst I've seen full stop.

 

[mechman]

Stevie Wonder could do better than that.

 

[graffian]

If you have some 1980 ish Corbeau seats take a look at the welding, might well be **Language**ing abysmal.
A mate had a job welding. He had never welded anything, and one day he proudly tells us he's got a job,
CO2 welding and will be able to make hardtails, sissy bars and stuff. He was welding Corbeau seat frames
at a little workshop near Bexhill. He bought a couple of bits of metal he had welded together along for me to
see, the welding looked much like that. I couldn't bring myself to break his weld, he was so proud of it;-)

 

[gordon stephenson]

You aint seen nothing yet, (not mine i hasten to add) Some of you may have seen this before.
I wonder if its a new build or just a "Repair"

 

[Bill Edwards]

You aint seen nothing yet, (not mine i hasten to add) Some of you may have seen this before.
I wonder if its a new build or just a "Repair"
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[Am333rcr]

Hi

It's just at the store. Wasn't an agri merchant boy that did it though. Some one in company that said they could weld to save some money. It's racking in a 20ft container

 

[Jim Davey]

Woah! If you're gonna weld badly, be the best you can be.

 

[norlander]

top beads, obviously all the moaning about EN1090 is well founded, its unecessary red tape. Don't slam the door in that place though...........................................

 

[Richard.]

Having been involved with inspection and training I've seen some poor welding on my travels but those are some of the best.
Jim that was a tea in my lap moment reading your post.

 

[Bsmith]

A lot of work and trouble went into that, it's easier to produce a half decent weld.

 

[tomsutton529]

Half a day with a flap disk and they will look fine.

 

[Jim Davey]

Half a minute with a 3.25mm Lo-Hi turned up to 120 to burn out the pigeon crap and jobs a goodun.