I Learned This When I Was Pipelinin'

Been watching for years, not even close to a welder and don’t pretend to be. Just a field mechanic but you absolutely have the most positive and best YouTube channel out there! Thanks for passing on your knowledge!

I have welded for Chevron years ago offshore and most all welding offshore regardless what company you are sent out to weld for is usually done with 6010 , some of the pipe welding offshore when it comes to capping is done with what's called a downhill butterfly cap and some welders get really good at it and it puts a nice flat cap and it looks like butterfly wings it's really neat and not all welders can acquire to that skill but Inland for Chevron their pipe welding is done with a downhill Mig and it's really fast and you can put even large gaps between the pipes if you like because the Mig will go from pipe to pipe real quick and fast and easy and smooth but when using Mig I would suggest that you always preheat everything that you're going to be welding I welded downhill Mig on Pipe type structures that were round and large enough to drive a car down the middle of it that's when I was building those gigantic Towers in Chattanooga ,wind Towers, most of the welding was done with sub arc welding but sometimes we had to recap certain areas and it was done with downhill Mig and sometimes with uphill flux core, But overall my experience working in land and offshore, offshore you get paid for 84 hours a week and sometimes 126 hours a week and you do less work offshore because sometimes when it rains or the wind blows very hard you get to go lay up and watch television and you get paid for the whole day not only that it's no rush offshore because the contractors that send you out there they want you to drag on because you get paid more and they do too if the time goes on slow, but if you go out there and hurry up and finish a job then you're not going to make you or your boss as much money so it's really laid-back offshore plus offshore you're guaranteed a Helper and so the helper does a lot of the physical work changing out the gauges on air tanks, bringing down cans of rods and such but a lot of welders would never go offshore even with the high pay they would never do it cuz they don't trust their wives they want to be home every night to watch that wife and make sure she's not running out on them. Through all my years of experience working in land and offshore and I'm retired now the best welding you will ever do and enjoy is being in business for yourself and I'm so glad that this gentleman in this video has taken it upon himself to leave the pipeline and to go in business for himself because pipeline welding could be some of the most dirtiest welding getting down in a hole underneath pipe and it's rain the night before I mean it can get really dirty and hot in the daytime but if you've got your own shop you can build and fabricate things and if nobody's giving you work to do our jobs to do you can still fabricate certain projects to sell just like Factories do so you can still enjoy welding in making money and not be concerned whether somebody calls you up on the phone to give you a job or not

As a retired Ironworker, I subscribed to your channel within the first 60 seconds of finding it ! ! ! Hope to enjoy your pleasent attitude from here on ! ! ! ! Attaboy ! ! ! ! ! !

I was at an aluminum plant one day and one welder showed up with a truck rig but it had a MIG welder on it and he told me every time he would go on a job where they would have more than one welder that they contracted the workout to, other welders would confront him in a real bad way , they hated to see any welder show up with a MIG rig because they knew that he would weld circles around them welding much more faster much more quicker and putting out beautiful smooth Mig Welds. He said the other welders wanted the job to go slow and drag on because they were being paid by the hour so they would show a lot of hostility against any welder that would show up with a truck rig that had a MIG welder on it , but he himself wanted to hurry up and get the job done and go to the next job. I understand both sides of the coin here but if you bid on a welding job and you want to hurry up and get it done because you're not being paid by the hour but by the job then MIG welding is the way to go and if you're concerned about the wind blowing your gas away from the arc you can build a portable tent type structure to hover over every joint that you have to weld keeping the wind out, believe me the MIG welding is quick and fast if you only want to use it for a root pass and a hot pass and do the rest with stick welding that will seal still save you a lot of time. Even a small Hobart 125 that you cal run off a generator with .025 wire, with it you can hurry up and do your root and hot pass almost perfect with no blowthrus, and that saves alot of time, and then finish it out with stick. Downhill with mig welding with root and hot pass puts in almost flawless beautiful passes.

A suitcase would come in handy on those kind of jobs

The pressure build up is from the heat, if you can leave the top open and let it cool down then fill the hole. I’ve had to weld tanks and they need to be vented. I don’t weld a lot of pipe, mostly emergency repairs. Great video by the way!

Always great content. Love the longer videos too!

Thanks for sharing with us Austin, that was a lot of welding. We enjoyed all of it, stay safe and have fun while you are staying cool too. Fred.

Thank you for the explanations and the oopsies. The things that go a little sideways are as helpful as the pretty stuff!

I keep learning something from every video thanks

wanting to get into pipeline welding and your videos are very helpful. keep up the great videos.

you're a really good welder MR Ross.

You should get a suitcase with some duel shield fluxcore it would have saved you a lot of time

Good working brother

I can't get enough of this channel man. One boss I had that taught me handrail the right way, taught me to always bevel the tubes and leave a 1/32" land so the weld would suck in and we wouldn't need to sand - ever. And we didn't. I suppose similar to a weld test coupon bevel or other full pen welds. We have a rota-brade or whatever they are called the little hand held belt sanders that work on air feed, but I'm sayin' we rarely ever used it. all of our handrail was bead blasted, but anyone will understand how good that is with handrail where there's no sanding needed. Smoooooooth welds. That dude taught me so many insightful things that I've used as a fitter/welder/millwright. From woodworking to auto repair. Extremely valuable individual. I can say he was a total dickbag of a human, he was cheap as hell with the crews we all were on. This dude would cut the paint we used to spray all red oxide on the finished weldments with straight gasoline. Then we would use a standard spray rig to spray it on the parts.

I just welded for the first time the other day and did a semi ok weld, and I actually like welding

Thank you for the tips. Enjoy your videos there are very informational.

But 💯% like your videos, bc you’ve shown a lot about pipeline. I’ve got my foot in the door, I enjoyed it. I wanna start pursuing more into the industry by practicing welding pipe but I been watching you since I’ve started welding school. That was 2 years ago and thank goodness I found someone who can demonstrate and teach what this industry is all about. 💯%

Years ago back in my early days I started out in a CNY truck/job shop. One of the old timer farmers'd come in he'd need to get "some welting done." 🤔

I just got into welding for home use and appreciate hearing tips from a pro, thanks for sharing your skill.