Welding Tips and Tricks

I am stripping and re-decking a big cedar deck and I was at the carpenters candy store today and saw deck board strippers. The best one they had looked like a flimsy POS and they wanted $100 for it so I came home and built this sucker out of 1 1/2"- 1/2" wall hernia pipe and sacrificed a couple chinesey pry bars. The hook will dig into the wood so it won't slip and the leverage pops the board right up. My laborer is gonna have muscles in his shit wielding this bad boy all day cause it probably weighs more than he does Check out the mig like tig action going on there too.

Love to read, when a weldman goes to a shop, sees what they are selling, gets upset with the world, goes home and welds the same stuff and even better, just because he can.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When you're a welder, everything looks like whatever the hell you want it to be!

(Stolen from facebook.)
(Seems extra appropriate for exnailpounder.)

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When you're a welder, everything looks like whatever the hell you want it to be!

(Stolen from facebook.)
(Seems extra appropriate for exnailpounder.)

Steve S

Yup...necessity is the mother of invention

needed to cut tapered legs for a wood project.
looked on line and everything looks cheesy.
built this one from 1 1/4 alum sq tubing and
1/8" flat stock

motox wrote:needed to cut tapered legs for a wood project.
looked on line and everything looks cheesy.
built this one from 1 1/4 alum sq tubing and
1/8" flat stock

Very nice, when does the production models hit the shelves?

LtBadd wrote:

motox wrote:needed to cut tapered legs for a wood project.
looked on line and everything looks cheesy.
built this one from 1 1/4 alum sq tubing and
1/8" flat stock

Very nice, when does the production models hit the shelves?

The Chinese has probably already stolen the idea and started production.
Nice work Craig, looks like factory made.

Jeff, you could probably pry open the deck even if it was welded with that thing, looks like brutal force

Knowing Jeff, he could probably just pry the things with his bare hand and one tied behind his back. He just built the tool to get out of the house and weld something

He'll probably end up using it as a dinner fork.


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Coldman wrote:He'll probably end up using it as a dinner fork.

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It works GREAT! My laborer's arms are 2 inches longer today than they were. No heavy duty utensils for me any more. 20 years ago this would have been a toothpick but that wear and tear arthritis is taking it's toll...the golden years ...my ass

exnailpounder wrote:It works GREAT! My laborer's arms are 2 inches longer today than they were. No heavy duty utensils for me any more. 20 years ago this would have been a toothpick but that wear and tear arthritis is taking it's toll...the golden years ...my ass

I think the golden years must mean something else...Like we should have invested in gold years ago so we could actually retire some day.

electrode wrote:

exnailpounder wrote:It works GREAT! My laborer's arms are 2 inches longer today than they were. No heavy duty utensils for me any more. 20 years ago this would have been a toothpick but that wear and tear arthritis is taking it's toll...the golden years ...my ass

I think the golden years must mean something else...Like we should have invested in gold years ago so we could actually retire some day.

I think maybe"'the golden years" is when you start pissing your pants again

Coldman wrote:He'll probably end up using it as a dinner fork.

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He posted his picture in "The Rouges' Gallery. You could be right. Make sure he's on your side in a bar brawl.

Steve S

exnailpounder wrote: I think maybe"'the golden years" is when you start pissing your pants again

That explains all the "Depends" commercials during "The Golden Girls".

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:

exnailpounder wrote: I think maybe"'the golden years" is when you start pissing your pants again

That explains all the "Depends" commercials during "The Golden Girls".

Steve S

What kind of television do you watch?

Farmwelding wrote:

Otto Nobedder wrote:

exnailpounder wrote: I think maybe"'the golden years" is when you start pissing your pants again

That explains all the "Depends" commercials during "The Golden Girls".

Steve S

What kind of television do you watch?

This was back in college, 89 to early 90's when I was first dating my now wife. I would come to her dorm, and she was in a suite with five other girls, so the television was not under my control. Also, it was a real fat-back television with a "rabbit ears" antenna.

Jeff's about my age, and likely will get the reference.

Steve S

exnailpounder wrote:

electrode wrote:

exnailpounder wrote:It works GREAT! My laborer's arms are 2 inches longer today than they were. No heavy duty utensils for me any more. 20 years ago this would have been a toothpick but that wear and tear arthritis is taking it's toll...the golden years ...my ass

I think the golden years must mean something else...Like we should have invested in gold years ago so we could actually retire some day.

I think maybe"'the golden years" is when you start pissing your pants again

How can you tell which guy is in his "golden years"?

He's the one with the yellow sneakers and the rusty zipper!

How do you spot a blind man at the nude beach?

C'mon, now,
it's not hard.

Otto Nobedder wrote:

exnailpounder wrote: I think maybe"'the golden years" is when you start pissing your pants again

That explains all the "Depends" commercials during "The Golden Girls".

Steve S

Did you really just realize that? And why the F are you watching the Golden Girls??

Steve,
If Jeff and I were in a bar with a brawl going on I think we'd leave quietly by the back door and go get a beer at another bar.


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Coldman wrote:Steve,
If Jeff and I were in a bar with a brawl going on I think we'd leave quietly by the back door and go get a beer at another bar.


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Youth is for young people...brains are for the smart ones. I used to be able to clear a bar...times have changed

exnailpounder wrote:

Coldman wrote:Steve,
If Jeff and I were in a bar with a brawl going on I think we'd leave quietly by the back door and go get a beer at another bar.


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Youth is for young people...brains are for the smart ones. I used to be able to clear a bar...times have changed

Now some bars you wouldn't want to touch. Especially those down at the colleges. They can pretty weird.

Farmwelding wrote:

exnailpounder wrote:

Coldman wrote:Steve,
If Jeff and I were in a bar with a brawl going on I think we'd leave quietly by the back door and go get a beer at another bar.


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Youth is for young people...brains are for the smart ones. I used to be able to clear a bar...times have changed

Now some bars you wouldn't want to touch. Especially those down at the colleges. They can pretty weird.

Somehow I bullshitted my way into getting a concealed carry lisence so I fear nothing again

Coldman wrote:
Steve,
"If Jeff and I were in a bar with a brawl going on I think we'd leave quietly by the back door and go get a beer at another bar."

now there is a great the first line for a novel.......
craig