Welding box section - checking the welds?

[Talk]

Without sounding condescending I’d like to know I can trust my welding in general before I’d build something like car ramps, which might be holding a car above me.
How much experience do you have in welding already? Do you basically know when you have done a good weld, or a bad one?

I have to agree, if someone can not trust their own welds then they shuold not be making load bearing structures.
OP shuold get someone to do the welding, tack it all up and bring it to them for welding, make sure it is cleaned well.

 

[bricol]

8ft ramps, with sufficient cross bars, made out of say 50 sq box are going to be pretty heavy . . .

 

[BrokenBiker]

8ft ramps, with sufficient cross bars, made out of say 50 sq box are going to be pretty heavy . . .

I can confirm, they are ludicrously heavy, my 7m5t beaver tail came with box section ladder ramps, I remade them form angle and effectively halved the weight but still heavy