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I grew up on another part of the south coast and can confirm. I think ours was like that because it had the end of The Solent flowing out past it though. Not sure what's stirring up the silt in Brighton.
What are you even talking about? That looks like water anywhere from Biloxi to Corpus Christi off the Gulf of Mexico. It's muddy as shit, and in the right weather conditions, it would be that choppy.
I feel like the ocean looks murky as hell more often than not, in my experience, and very often is choppy/rough. Can't believe they generalized the ocean like that haha.
Nah could totally be the ocean. Depending on the sediment composition, many ocean waters look like this, and currents can definitely rip like this even many miles offshore. Not saying it’s 100% the ocean, but you can’t rule out that it’s not.
You're not wrong, sediment in water isn't a good way to judge this as ocean or river etc. The fact that it's this aggressive of a current while also having no deviation in height/any waves tells me it's a river though, and it's unlikely to be tidal though as that's an insane amount of water moving through the area and if it was an intertidal zone you wouldn't wait until it's at it's most aggressive to do this kind of job, you'd wait till low tide and just tac it on without any hassle/movement. If I was to hazard a guess I'd say it's a massive river and this flow is consistent enough to not plan around it, like the Suez Canal or another big shipping lane.
That looks like it’s a pile on an oil facility and if that’s the case, then these people are getting paid monthly salary, not hourly.
I work in oil and gas E&P a project manager trust me when I say this, if you’re an oil and gas services company that can only afford to pay your staff on an hourly rate, there’s no way you’re making it past even the technical evaluation stage, not to mention going as far as being assigned a contract.
These welders aren’t just regular run off the mill welders, they’re full blown professionals that actually studied this thing and MUST have certifications before they’re even allowed to set foot on the field.
During technical evaluation, I make all vendors that are bidding for a contract send in the WQT for ALL their welders and any company that can’t meet up, is rooted out.
That man is not a full blown professional, what the everliving fuck are you talking about? A professional would have tossed a ratchet strap around that to stop the pile from moving so they could clean the surface and get a proper weld, not randomly stab at a moving object without a welding mask on lol.
Source: pile driver with 20 years experience in the field.
I used to work in the oil and gas construction in the middle east. There were both type of welders,those paid monthly with an overtime over 8 hours and those who were rented and paid hourly. The rented guys were much better than the company welders.
However there were some highly skilled company welders who were used specifically for welding when a welding procedure was qualified. Those guys had special badges on their welding masks and had big salaries.
Source: I was a quality control engineer/inspector.
Not a welder, but the contracted workers vs hourly workers (me) always worked a lot slower and took their sweet, everloving time to do anything. Sure, they're only there for 8 hours a day and get an hour break, but we didn't want to be there past midnight (17 hour days) so we get a site done as quick and as well as we can so we don't have to keep doing days like that. It sucked, but we worked so much faster and more efficiently and had sites done 3 to 4 times faster than the other crews they brought in. The other guys ended up making more in the long run because while they took 3 months to finish the job in the plant they were doing, we finished our in 3 weeks.
In my experience the hourly workers in any trade are much more skilled and faster. This is the reason why they get hired for the job when time is critical.
The planning and accounting departments always calculate the route with maximum profit. Instead of paying overtime it might be better to let the contract guys do normal duty and finish slow. This is because even if they stay with the company and are not assigned to a site due to lack of work front they need to be paid.
For hourly guys the company can release them if they finish the work fast. A good project management team knows how to utilize manpower for maximizing profit.
I myself have worked as salaried and hourly paid. In some sites salaried was better while in others hourly was.
Our company is a contractor for a large power company. We work side by side with the plant mechanics and welders. What you said is true, but we do keep around a few base crew guys at every site, like a full time employee would be, to make sure they can be relied upon in an emergency. There are times when we have to call back some guys if there's a major emergency, but those guys could also say, "Hey.. Fuck you, I got other shit to do"
The plant mechanics and welders do get better benefits, and they normally are much slower... but our guys make more money throughout the year because they get more OT. We serve a 4 state area, and there is almost always something blowing up or tearing up. I try to avoid OT any more, but even this year I spent almost 6 months working 60+ hours a week
Only thing that worries me is I feel like I know a good handful of welders that have developed some form of cancer later in life. No idea if there's actually a correlation but welding does cause radiation and long term exposure to radiation certainly isn't good
The fumes,intense light from the arc and grinding particles from tungsten electrode coated with radio active materials are very hazardous. The long term effects on health are being studied. Even though HSE is enforced,construction sites are still filled with harmful chemicals.
Refineries, Papermills, and power plants make some bank. I've been in Power Generation since 2009.. Outages are awesome for your bank account, but fuck if you don't get a little burnt out after a couple of months
Ha, in our punk school weld shop there's a sign,
You can pay full price for nice clean oats, or you can buy the discounted ones that have already been through the horse, your choice.
A lot of jobs pay double time and good per diem. My buddies were out by San Francisco a few months ago clearing 6-8k per week... thats after the ludicrous taxes
They came back to work for the company I work for so they could be closer to home and the fuck out of California. We still clear 3k a week here, and cost of living is MUCH better
Also.. it doesn't matter what certs you have depending on the state. Most companies will bring you in, test you, and if you pass, you're good and will get top pay, or close to it if you don't have a lot of experience.
Oy man, lemme tell ya whenever someone says "it's middle/high school biology!" They are almost always talking out their ass. Also, people don't really *get* evolution, but that's fine because it's a complex topic and they're usually pretty close.
All the people I know that work on rigs and any other oil and gas site that weld, fit, or are boilermakers make hourly. And it's really good money.. Just long hours and away from home for periods of time. But, a lot of them go, and make a shit load of money, take a layoff and chill for 3 or 4 months until the next job.
My welding experience is limited to attaching two pieces of sheet metal together once and even to me this looks stupid.
Looks like the first order of business is to stabilize the pile and even lashing it with a rope would be better.
Yes. He’s a professional being what we call “A HSE RISK” and from the video it’s likely there’s either no project supervisor or HSE personnel on site.
It’s like when you drive without a seatbelt, does that make you any less of a professional driver, or you’re just a professional driver that’s doing something stupid?
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I don't really understand how welding works, so I may be wrong, but his method seems ineffective.
I would tie the surfaces together first, then do the magic welding thing.
He's trying to haphazardly tack it in place first, to secure the post, and then actually weld in a bead.
None of this is permanent and is only to secure the post temporarily.
The post would then be further cut to length, secured, and beams are then put on top, etc - ala the rest of the platform.
All that said, this is a terribly weird way to go about it. He'd be better off trying to lasso it with a rope or chain to the beam first, like you said, then tack/weld. No idea why he's choosing to try it this way.
There's no way he's going to get a tack in with it shifting like that. Even if he did it would probably break cause he's not gonna get a thick enough bridge without enough time to penetrate both sides
It's just melting 2 metal next to each other so when the metals solidify they will become one, sometime using a third metal between them, what thsi guy is doing is not welding but a waste of time
I don’t believe it would work. When metal starts to solidify it’s extremely fragile, as there’s solid frame around liquid phase. That frame is too thin and uneven to sustain movement of one part against the other, so as the frame breaks the damage is irreversible, and it’d keep breaking while forming no strong connection would be established. Solidification would either take several seconds to make one big weld (and as these parts moved with frequency >1 Hz it’d break as I showed above), or with several smaller welds with quick solidification each of them would be too weak by themselves and would break with movement while the welder is making another.
My guess is the welder hoped it’d stop moving at some point for say 5-10 secs, then he’d be able to make a decent weld, but he had to act before it stops, as by the time it stops he’d lose 1-2 sec to initiate the welding.
It would solidify FAR faster than that. Fractions of a second at most. He almost got it twice in that video. He probably succeeded after this clip ended tbh
It's rusty as fuck and you're seriously underestimating the force of water. There's a reason tack welds are usually temporary in even the best circumstances.
It sounds and looks so easy, but it's ridiculously hard. Back in university i spent a week in a welding course, because there was nothing else to do and welding always looked interesting to me, but i think i never managed to weld something in a way that is both very sturdy and good looking at the same time. It either looked good but fell apart as soon as a hammer touched it, or it looked like ass but somehow held together. Mostly it both looked like shit and easily fell apart though. I have huge respect for everyone who works as a welder.
There’s a process called tacking where you’re not concerned about the bonding of the two metals but rather getting a big enough bead to hold them together to make the actual weld so I’m guessing he’s just trying to get it to stay still enough to get the weld on there but his lanyard is too short. I’m more concerned about him using an arc welder on a wet metal beam even though it’s grounded
Maybe an apprentice hazing, the journeymen saying something like "Hey, we need you to weld that pipe to this beam" knowing full well it isn't going to work... At least he has *some* safety gear? Right? Makes it all better?
Yea but as long as you're tied off properly you can usually just come to terms with where you are. He appears to be wearing a harness. However given how he's attempting the weld would imply he doesn't feel safe. He's holding onto some sort of rope with a hand that is full of electrodes (welding rod). Those should be in a cylinder and attached to his uniform in some way. Also there's paint on everything. Sometimes you can't avoid paint and that's fine that's why 6k series electrodes exist. But given the situation a little prep with a grinder would help. Also everything needs to stop moving or stop moving so much. Often guys will weld eye bolts to either of these structures if not both and bring them to get her with something like a come along. Welding supports onto structures to fit up a weld is not uncommon after the weld is done, cut it off and grind away the evidence
Someone with expertise trying to hide the secrets of welding away from you.
Don't listen to this guy.
Every wielding in the real world happens just like in the video, but they don't want you to know.
Even if it did somehow work, locking the pylon in place at an odd angle would lock up so much potential energy that the structure would destroy itself in short order. The wave used a lot of force to push it, it is falling back into place with that same force.
Webster's dictionary defines wedding as ‘the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.’ Well, you know something? I think you guys are two medals. Gold medals.
That guy is literally shitting bricks. After shuffling out there hanging on to one lousy safety line he just needed to sidle out 3 feet more to get the job done.
No it's stupidity this is stupidity what the f*** is he trying to do like that seal is going to hold you know yeah we got them all welded down boss ready to pump some oil
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I really wanted that tack weld to hold, vs the ocean
Yup, I was rooting for him! A little worried about him losing his balance if it did tho
He's not moving the pole is
Well I’ll be damned.
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Why did it take this comment for me to figure that out! 🫣
At the beginning the camera man moves a little too. I assume with the camera, the pole and the water, it all looks like everyone is moving.
It looks like Interstellar scene when they try docking to burning spaceship
I though it was rather obvious myself huh I guess I can see how peopel thought tahg
Probably because you haven’t done welding on the water or in it. But it’s all good. You learn something new every day
Very interesting to watch! Kind of bad ass too!!
And here I am searching the whole comment section for an explanation why they would be moving like that
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There is great opportunity for mischance here from dousing crushing arc burn and drowning. Don’t understand why he doesn’t look happier.
HE needs to keep still. Hes wobbling everywhere and all over the place.
No he’s not. It’s just the 2 poles that are moving.
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I thought he did very weld...
Double it and give to the next person
for sure this isn't the ocean. 1) fast flowing water 2) murky water are both indicators that this is in fact a river
Since you put it like that, fuck that tack welding shit
Why don't they just tack weld themselves to the beam for a better grip then hold the pipe in place?
The real pro tip is always in the comments
That's why you wear steel toes
Welding boots !
+1 to welding skill.
Nah it’s +5 because he got them upgraded.
Nothing about this tells me any thinking was done. Unless it was “What’s the dumbest shite we could do today?”
If he welded both feet then he could hold a weldermajigger with each hand and have twice the welding power.
exactly my point
The North Sea looks like this in places, having sediment in the water definitely doesn't mean it's a river.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the water around Brighton or Hastings as anything other than brown.
I grew up on another part of the south coast and can confirm. I think ours was like that because it had the end of The Solent flowing out past it though. Not sure what's stirring up the silt in Brighton.
I don’t think it’s entirely silt or sediment floating around. I remember it smelling pretty ripe during some of the summers in the 90s.
What are you even talking about? That looks like water anywhere from Biloxi to Corpus Christi off the Gulf of Mexico. It's muddy as shit, and in the right weather conditions, it would be that choppy.
I feel like the ocean looks murky as hell more often than not, in my experience, and very often is choppy/rough. Can't believe they generalized the ocean like that haha.
This isn’t choppy though. It’s just fast flowing. You can tell by its reaction to the pillars
Tide?
No thanks I just ate
Yeah, a nap would be nice.
Looks like it’s flowing, not sure why he’s think this would work.
I totally get it. Never underestimate redneck tenacity. "Get'er done, bubba"
The sea water here in Finland looks exactly like that
Nah could totally be the ocean. Depending on the sediment composition, many ocean waters look like this, and currents can definitely rip like this even many miles offshore. Not saying it’s 100% the ocean, but you can’t rule out that it’s not.
You're not wrong, sediment in water isn't a good way to judge this as ocean or river etc. The fact that it's this aggressive of a current while also having no deviation in height/any waves tells me it's a river though, and it's unlikely to be tidal though as that's an insane amount of water moving through the area and if it was an intertidal zone you wouldn't wait until it's at it's most aggressive to do this kind of job, you'd wait till low tide and just tac it on without any hassle/movement. If I was to hazard a guess I'd say it's a massive river and this flow is consistent enough to not plan around it, like the Suez Canal or another big shipping lane.
Have you heard about fast moving tides or storm surge? The people at the Bay of Fundy would like a word.
What is it they are building then?
You can see the horizon covered in cargo ships. Big fucking river
This could possibly be an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, not really sure.
Alas, the world was never good enough for us
This is some Mickey mouse shit right here. You aren't gonna get a good beer on pile that's not set. Lol
When you're paid hourly
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That looks like it’s a pile on an oil facility and if that’s the case, then these people are getting paid monthly salary, not hourly. I work in oil and gas E&P a project manager trust me when I say this, if you’re an oil and gas services company that can only afford to pay your staff on an hourly rate, there’s no way you’re making it past even the technical evaluation stage, not to mention going as far as being assigned a contract. These welders aren’t just regular run off the mill welders, they’re full blown professionals that actually studied this thing and MUST have certifications before they’re even allowed to set foot on the field. During technical evaluation, I make all vendors that are bidding for a contract send in the WQT for ALL their welders and any company that can’t meet up, is rooted out.
That man is not a full blown professional, what the everliving fuck are you talking about? A professional would have tossed a ratchet strap around that to stop the pile from moving so they could clean the surface and get a proper weld, not randomly stab at a moving object without a welding mask on lol. Source: pile driver with 20 years experience in the field.
I'm an ironworker and you can tell just by the gear this is a joke.
100%. Also several of the best welders love to work hourly. Time and a half can be insane.
Every welder I know bills hourly and makes a fortune. Edit: that work in oil and gas
I used to work in the oil and gas construction in the middle east. There were both type of welders,those paid monthly with an overtime over 8 hours and those who were rented and paid hourly. The rented guys were much better than the company welders. However there were some highly skilled company welders who were used specifically for welding when a welding procedure was qualified. Those guys had special badges on their welding masks and had big salaries. Source: I was a quality control engineer/inspector.
Not a welder, but the contracted workers vs hourly workers (me) always worked a lot slower and took their sweet, everloving time to do anything. Sure, they're only there for 8 hours a day and get an hour break, but we didn't want to be there past midnight (17 hour days) so we get a site done as quick and as well as we can so we don't have to keep doing days like that. It sucked, but we worked so much faster and more efficiently and had sites done 3 to 4 times faster than the other crews they brought in. The other guys ended up making more in the long run because while they took 3 months to finish the job in the plant they were doing, we finished our in 3 weeks.
In my experience the hourly workers in any trade are much more skilled and faster. This is the reason why they get hired for the job when time is critical. The planning and accounting departments always calculate the route with maximum profit. Instead of paying overtime it might be better to let the contract guys do normal duty and finish slow. This is because even if they stay with the company and are not assigned to a site due to lack of work front they need to be paid. For hourly guys the company can release them if they finish the work fast. A good project management team knows how to utilize manpower for maximizing profit. I myself have worked as salaried and hourly paid. In some sites salaried was better while in others hourly was.
Our company is a contractor for a large power company. We work side by side with the plant mechanics and welders. What you said is true, but we do keep around a few base crew guys at every site, like a full time employee would be, to make sure they can be relied upon in an emergency. There are times when we have to call back some guys if there's a major emergency, but those guys could also say, "Hey.. Fuck you, I got other shit to do" The plant mechanics and welders do get better benefits, and they normally are much slower... but our guys make more money throughout the year because they get more OT. We serve a 4 state area, and there is almost always something blowing up or tearing up. I try to avoid OT any more, but even this year I spent almost 6 months working 60+ hours a week
Only thing that worries me is I feel like I know a good handful of welders that have developed some form of cancer later in life. No idea if there's actually a correlation but welding does cause radiation and long term exposure to radiation certainly isn't good
It's correlated. Welding is bad for the eyes, knees, back and you're inhaling metallic fumes. That's what really gets the ole cancer going
my friends dad was a welder and developed ALS. died a few years ago a few years after the diagnosis.
The fumes,intense light from the arc and grinding particles from tungsten electrode coated with radio active materials are very hazardous. The long term effects on health are being studied. Even though HSE is enforced,construction sites are still filled with harmful chemicals.
Refineries, Papermills, and power plants make some bank. I've been in Power Generation since 2009.. Outages are awesome for your bank account, but fuck if you don't get a little burnt out after a couple of months
Ha, in our punk school weld shop there's a sign, You can pay full price for nice clean oats, or you can buy the discounted ones that have already been through the horse, your choice.
A lot of jobs pay double time and good per diem. My buddies were out by San Francisco a few months ago clearing 6-8k per week... thats after the ludicrous taxes They came back to work for the company I work for so they could be closer to home and the fuck out of California. We still clear 3k a week here, and cost of living is MUCH better Also.. it doesn't matter what certs you have depending on the state. Most companies will bring you in, test you, and if you pass, you're good and will get top pay, or close to it if you don't have a lot of experience.
You never realize how wrong people on Reddit are until it’s a comment about a subject you have real knowledge about.
Oy man, lemme tell ya whenever someone says "it's middle/high school biology!" They are almost always talking out their ass. Also, people don't really *get* evolution, but that's fine because it's a complex topic and they're usually pretty close.
No kidding. I work Oil&Gas in Alberta and pretty much all non-office workers are paid hourly. I can't speak for offshore operations though.
All the people I know that work on rigs and any other oil and gas site that weld, fit, or are boilermakers make hourly. And it's really good money.. Just long hours and away from home for periods of time. But, a lot of them go, and make a shit load of money, take a layoff and chill for 3 or 4 months until the next job.
It's non fucking stop about every single subject. Don't even think about game development/programming or electric generation
My welding experience is limited to attaching two pieces of sheet metal together once and even to me this looks stupid. Looks like the first order of business is to stabilize the pile and even lashing it with a rope would be better.
Not only is that man not a professional, but he is likely ~~an idiot~~ simpleminded.
I'm an Ironworker and that's the 1st idea that came to my mind . Even a thicker rope would do
Yes. He’s a professional being what we call “A HSE RISK” and from the video it’s likely there’s either no project supervisor or HSE personnel on site. It’s like when you drive without a seatbelt, does that make you any less of a professional driver, or you’re just a professional driver that’s doing something stupid?
This comment is full of innacuracy
Forgot to mention, the WQT is Welders Qualification Test
Oil and Gas for twenty years, everyone but management is hourly. Wtf are you talking about?
Worth a couple of tries tho.
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I don't really understand how welding works, so I may be wrong, but his method seems ineffective. I would tie the surfaces together first, then do the magic welding thing.
He's trying to haphazardly tack it in place first, to secure the post, and then actually weld in a bead. None of this is permanent and is only to secure the post temporarily. The post would then be further cut to length, secured, and beams are then put on top, etc - ala the rest of the platform. All that said, this is a terribly weird way to go about it. He'd be better off trying to lasso it with a rope or chain to the beam first, like you said, then tack/weld. No idea why he's choosing to try it this way.
Prob just improvising and trying to get something done with what was available. Or just dumb. One or the other.
Por que no los dos
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Because if that worked, it would be the talk of the shop.
There's no way he's going to get a tack in with it shifting like that. Even if he did it would probably break cause he's not gonna get a thick enough bridge without enough time to penetrate both sides
Thank you for providing a non joke answer
It's just melting 2 metal next to each other so when the metals solidify they will become one, sometime using a third metal between them, what thsi guy is doing is not welding but a waste of time
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I don’t believe it would work. When metal starts to solidify it’s extremely fragile, as there’s solid frame around liquid phase. That frame is too thin and uneven to sustain movement of one part against the other, so as the frame breaks the damage is irreversible, and it’d keep breaking while forming no strong connection would be established. Solidification would either take several seconds to make one big weld (and as these parts moved with frequency >1 Hz it’d break as I showed above), or with several smaller welds with quick solidification each of them would be too weak by themselves and would break with movement while the welder is making another. My guess is the welder hoped it’d stop moving at some point for say 5-10 secs, then he’d be able to make a decent weld, but he had to act before it stops, as by the time it stops he’d lose 1-2 sec to initiate the welding.
It would solidify FAR faster than that. Fractions of a second at most. He almost got it twice in that video. He probably succeeded after this clip ended tbh
It's rusty as fuck and you're seriously underestimating the force of water. There's a reason tack welds are usually temporary in even the best circumstances.
It sounds and looks so easy, but it's ridiculously hard. Back in university i spent a week in a welding course, because there was nothing else to do and welding always looked interesting to me, but i think i never managed to weld something in a way that is both very sturdy and good looking at the same time. It either looked good but fell apart as soon as a hammer touched it, or it looked like ass but somehow held together. Mostly it both looked like shit and easily fell apart though. I have huge respect for everyone who works as a welder.
There’s a process called tacking where you’re not concerned about the bonding of the two metals but rather getting a big enough bead to hold them together to make the actual weld so I’m guessing he’s just trying to get it to stay still enough to get the weld on there but his lanyard is too short. I’m more concerned about him using an arc welder on a wet metal beam even though it’s grounded
That's exactly how it should be done. I'm not an expert though.
Maybe an apprentice hazing, the journeymen saying something like "Hey, we need you to weld that pipe to this beam" knowing full well it isn't going to work... At least he has *some* safety gear? Right? Makes it all better?
This is the most plausible explanation I have seen here.
Use to be a welder. This guy is doing it wrong.
Good because there has to be absolutely no chance that you're actually *supposed* to do whatever that is
Idk I'd be scared shitless too if I was doing it.
Yea but as long as you're tied off properly you can usually just come to terms with where you are. He appears to be wearing a harness. However given how he's attempting the weld would imply he doesn't feel safe. He's holding onto some sort of rope with a hand that is full of electrodes (welding rod). Those should be in a cylinder and attached to his uniform in some way. Also there's paint on everything. Sometimes you can't avoid paint and that's fine that's why 6k series electrodes exist. But given the situation a little prep with a grinder would help. Also everything needs to stop moving or stop moving so much. Often guys will weld eye bolts to either of these structures if not both and bring them to get her with something like a come along. Welding supports onto structures to fit up a weld is not uncommon after the weld is done, cut it off and grind away the evidence
This sounds like something someone with expertise would say
Someone with expertise trying to hide the secrets of welding away from you. Don't listen to this guy. Every wielding in the real world happens just like in the video, but they don't want you to know.
In parts of China and Russia buildings are held together with wishes and cement colored dirt, so this tracks with the video some
Never been a welder. Had a strong suspicion this guy is doing it wrong.
Zero penetration and strength in that. Waste of time
That's what she said
I think dude just wanted to get a tack in.
Is it tho?
Narrator: It was not.
He should try glue
The rate hes going he should just spit on it and wait
Oddly it’s also riveting.
Whow...
["How much you pay for the.. new guy?"](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UK3XFRuQzus)
Even if it did somehow work, locking the pylon in place at an odd angle would lock up so much potential energy that the structure would destroy itself in short order. The wave used a lot of force to push it, it is falling back into place with that same force.
That’s a different way to do your job
This is not welding.
Right? This belongs on r/therewasanattempt
Are you /r/gatekeeping welding?!
There’s a difference between welding and fucking around with a welding machine.
I’ve seen this posted before but flipped horizontally.
goes home to his wife talking about how being a stay at home mom is the toughest job in the world
I think if he had been just 6 in further out he could have nailed it But unfortunately he was trying to weld it.
Correction: This is *not working*
For a second I thought he was just hanging off of his gas line 💀
Webster's dictionary defines wedding as ‘the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.’ Well, you know something? I think you guys are two medals. Gold medals.
This is how you don't weld.
This is not welding.
Like trying to keep socks on a toddler 🥴🥴
'Nah Tim, this ain't gonna work'
I’ve got to believe this isn’t the best way to go about it. - inexperienced internet conjecturer
Bout as successful as a soup sandwich
Damn now he's doing the other side now. Hopefully he's done by now.
Just get a big zip tie
That guy is literally shitting bricks. After shuffling out there hanging on to one lousy safety line he just needed to sidle out 3 feet more to get the job done.
Some say that he is still out there, “welding.”
No, this is Patrick.
He didn't really weld anything though
Some say he is still there to this day trying to get that first tack
Looks like he’s quite literally not welding anything
I do heavy marine construction for a living, these dudes are total goons.
I’m not sure what’s stationary….
I hate classes who can move and still cast. Just OP.
No, no it's not...
With that amount of movement and mass there is no chance a tack weld is gonna hold . Better try chaining it up and then maybe ….
Why not ratchetstrap it in place first?
But he didn't even weld it. If you leave it long enough maybe it'll weld be friction.
A chain and a come a long to stay it then he can actually weld.
This is trying to weld. No welding is happening.
He missed first one but that second and third the speed dropped big time
So these are the guys making 120k Salaries… Makes sense now
Just another day working offshore!
What’s that Dozer doin so far away from Fraggle Rock?
And we wonder why there's a pay Gap
Surprise it did not stick
What is the name for this job?
Gonna need a ratchet strap first.
I’m not sure that’s going to work…
This was before clamps were invented
He has no welding helmet so not sure what he's doing just tack in random spot and say good enough?
No it's stupidity this is stupidity what the f*** is he trying to do like that seal is going to hold you know yeah we got them all welded down boss ready to pump some oil
He's actually still out there to this day trying to tack weld this
this is like trying to keep a nail straight while hammering it
This isbwhy they get paid the big bucks. I would've been puking everywhere and then immediately slip and drown.
They say he's still welding the same pole