Aeroknow
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I DO NOT call people or answer the phone when i’m buzzin. Learned that lesson a long time ago.
What did you accomplish today?
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Aeroknow
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Bad ass dude! Props!
manfredo
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I normally don't answer my dad or bro after about noon, but hadn't talked in a long time so I took a chance...I was wrong!!I DO NOT call people or answer the phone when i’m buzzin. Learned that lesson a long time ago.
DarkWeb
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Aeroknow
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Like i was sayin. Overhead is where it gets a little tricky with the stick and light gauge. Especially to a thicker metal.
The main trick with the stick and our material is keeping the rod jammed into it
DarkWeb
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I have a small scar on my chest from my overhead cert back in '98
Aeroknow
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I might still have a scar from slag getting down in between my pants. wearing bags, no leathers, the fucker got in between stuck right at my pubic hair welding overhead. That mother fucker oh my god. Then it got infected. Took forever to heal. And wearing my bags every day rubbed it. Took forever to go away
DarkWeb
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I don't know what you mean by that.Btw, we would usually let the convicts buy their cards to be the ones welding everyday
DarkWeb
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I have removed clothes and my leather boots faster than most people can imagine because of a bb. Sometimes you gotta let it just burn in lol had one melt into the inside of my glasses when I was in votech.
Aeroknow
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Union
Some convicts get taught welding while in prison.
Our apprenticeship is 4 years to become journeyman. 4 yrs of school included.
We’ll let convicts “buy” their journeyman card and all they do is weld. They don’t have to do the schooling we did or pass the 4yr mark on the job either
Aeroknow
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Yeah i got lots of other slag stories. They’re always from not putting on the leather jacket. Just picking up the shit to get it done overhead.
The weirdest story i got was screwing off some shitrock. A laborer decided it was a good time to burn off some steel up above me. He caught me on fire no shit. My partner looked at me and said dude you’re in fire! I stepped back tore off my tee shirt. Looked above us. Dude was still burning these old gaurd posts off. What a fucking lame! That same job. Same laborer burned through his lines, evacuated the whole jobsite until the bottle of acetylene ran out lmao
DarkWeb
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I never did any union work. My buddy probably knows more about that than me. But yeah definitely more of the dirty work is done by some people that may have had a different background. It's a great thing to learn. I've worked in big shops that the majority was from something like that. But there was only three Tig welders and we all came from a school. Not my favorite job.
Aeroknow
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That kinda bugged me. Not that i wanted to be the one stuck welding everyday even though i’ve been that guy.
That is one thing that doesn’t bug me complaining about.
But i’d love to also like to share this here.
we are also the ones who hang the shitrock on jobs. God damn i hate being stuck on the rock pile for days. We all do.
We let our mexican brothers buy their cards and all they do is hang board everyday. If it wasn’t for them all these commercial buildings would not get built.
fucking pisses me off when people think they took our jobs and shit. The guys are hard working. They don’t complain. There’s not enough people in my trade as is. They help build america. They are needed.
Aeroknow
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@doublejj.
Was just here the other day and
We were discussing the whole prison fire fighters taking away civilians fire fighter jobs. More like why i had a problem with convict welders buying their cards. It’s a weird thing. Kinda goes both ways imo.
Just to clarify its not like jj was talking shit about convicts fighting fire. It’s just a kinda beef civilian fire fighters have with convicts fighting fires around here.
Was just here the other day and
We were discussing the whole prison fire fighters taking away civilians fire fighter jobs. More like why i had a problem with convict welders buying their cards. It’s a weird thing. Kinda goes both ways imo.
Just to clarify its not like jj was talking shit about convicts fighting fire. It’s just a kinda beef civilian fire fighters have with convicts fighting fires around here.
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StonedGardener
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Ya need some help ? Sounds like heaven. !
StonedGardener
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That was meant for Aeroknow.....fillers, fumes,smoke and hooch ......great project
Aeroknow
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Dude these colors are killer man.
Here’s the SW codes that HD or lowes can also whip up also
StonedGardener
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He dude, sent you a reply meant for Aeroknow...you were responding to his project post.
DarkWeb
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I'm with you on that bud.