Stick welding only employment?

[Bobupndown]

Here's a few of mine.

2x 12 hour shift spent needle gunning, wire wheeling and grinding kneeling/laying on hardfaced cement mill table.

16 hour shift welding on crane at immingham docks, 2000m x 800mm x 20mm plate butt weld MPI & UT, all overhead, whilst in scaffolding habitat suspended 40m+ over the sea.

2x 12 hour shift spend kneeling ontop of cement mill rolls, hardfacing with 1.6mm open arc wire.

Thats some of the fun ones.

Powerstation shutdowns and Scunthorpe shutdowns were beyond what you would think the human body can tolerate. Room temperatures above 50 degrees, so much dust you cannot see much beyond 10 ft, mammoth jobs you can't imagine getting to the finish line.

10,000 stud welded y cleats in two weeks, plus additional welding works on nights at British Steel.

But there's no plan b, no one else to come and finish the job, no point moaning about it, you have to get on with it.

Thats the life of site welders.

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I worked briefly (thankfully) for a company maintaining conveyor belts in power stations and quarries, on shut downs, working all night lining coal chutes and the like. I was only 21 at the time, glad to have got out of that line of work, wouldn't fancy still doing it at 50!

 

[chrismac]

Used a welding jacket and fibreglass blanket, i've not had a go with a 1 ton bag. I think they burn pretty good don't they? Keeps things exciting.

Tig work so not too exciting, just a bugger keeping the wind out.