@@analogueoverdigital929 you sound like a perfect candidate hopefully you get in!

@@contessa.adella Welding is a very ego driven skill for a lot of people. This sucks because it creates extremely closed minded individuals in the community. So when someone who already knows welding terms and functions comes across a video like this they think it’s stupid because the answer is obvious to them. They completely forgot that there other people who will find the video informative and learn from it because they won’t understand the same concept from reading a chart or manual.

@@litemup50 yeah he has the best 1/2 ton rig I’ve ever seen.

@CaptainShotgun007 start a apprenticeship and once you have 10000 hours of experience in welding try out being a supervisor and see if it’s right for you. Honestly though usually supervisors have a extremely demanding schedule that leaves them very little time for their personal life. If you’re just a welder it’s much easier to take time off and look into investment opportunities like real estate and stocks. I’ve seen many welders make over $150k a year then take time off to buy and fix up an income property and before you know it they have over 10 properties and a great stock portfolio making it possible for them to retire really early. That would have been a lot more difficult if they were loyal to a company as a supervisor.

@@delas7389how?

@@robotrash41 Yeah if you already have it than perfect!

@@matthewarndt9861 Nope! Turned out Forney just can’t make aluminum rods. I tried out some blue demon ones and they worked 1000 times better.

@@Makeithappen8888 Perfect, that will work perfectly fine for starting out. I’m 1.5 years in and I’m just now fitting my main rig with a custom welding deck for what I need and making a skid rig with my backup truck. It’s honestly best to start simple and build up from there because in the beginning you honestly don’t know exactly what you need.

@JTwelder. I figure as I get going, my next rig or set up will be dictated by the type of things I will be doing. I mean, we all dream of having a big custom truck, but I figured that at this point in my game, it would be moving me backward.

@@Makeithappen8888 Yeah exactly! I’m my opinion you gotta work out of your truck for about a year to figure out what set would be the best for the type of work you get into. Way Way too many welders and mechanics go out and pull a $100k+ loan out on some crazy rig/service truck right out of the gate only too realize that they should of started out small and built up.

@@robertcromwell9736 Yep, any time you’re welding with shelf-shielded flux core you need to be DCEN that rule applies to any machine. Apparently those titanium one are good little units.

@@matthewmiller6068 try both ways is a great idea to get an understanding of the difference and see in real time how much better the wire reacts when using the right polarity.

@@ericrobillard-n7r it was freshly buffed and whipped with acetone so it definitely wasn’t contaminated. And I did try dc+. Turns out forney rods just suck, the blue demon one work much much better.

@ i saw one using pulse, seems to make a great difference 50% down pulses. looks like stacked dimes

@@ericrobillard-n7r yeah that be cool!

@@mikem2022 If you get a high skilled position you’ll be paid good, there’s just a lot of low skilled welding jobs out there and a lot of people gravitate to those because of the easy schedule and skill requirements.

@@FEARMYSWORD depends on where your located. In my local you have to bring your own boots and tool belt, a lot of guys gear up their own tool belts because the company’s only stock really crap stuff. A lot of welders bring their own quick latch respirators as well because most companies only provide the bare minimum cheap respirators.

@@MrFantasylover1 if it’s a flux core only machine it should already be set up right. Yes welder is a new enough brand that they would get it right.

@@user-yf1sg5pp5f trying out a entry level welding course is definitely a good start!

@@kitkatscarch9091 yes they are a 1/2” square, the fibre metal ones are a 1/4” square.

@ thank you!

@@StephenFleming-b8j the plate was freshly cleaned with a grinder and acetone so it perfectly clean and after the first weld pass the plate was easily at a proper pre heat temp. It was actually the rods fault. Forney doesn’t make a good quality product apparently there are a few brands that make a much better version of this product that is significantly easier to weld with.

@@EricCampbellUAV maybe for the type of work you were doing that was the best option. As I mentioned on long term projects like structural builds and plant shutdowns being able to tow a trailer in and park it on site for an extended amount of time is really nice. Now if you go out to the Alberta oil sands or the Texas oil refineries and pipelines you’ll see that 99% of welders are running the welder on the back of the truck. That’s because for that type of work it’s the best option. I weld mostly in equipment yards and on nickel mine sites. Having a trailer would be extremely inconvenient. Another contractor I work with at the mines brought in a welding trailer recently to try it out, within one week they decided to move everything into the bed of a truck because the trailer was to inconvenient.

@ it’s not inconvenient. you just need more experience backing up a trailer with such a narrow wheelbase

@@EricCampbellUAV maybe where you live but that’s not true everywhere around the world.

@@wildirishduck your the first to comment about it! I forgot I had unlatched it so I had to reconnect to get the truck all the way off the trailer.

@ haha i was looking at it and i was like wait hold up and had to rewind a couple times

@ I got pretty lucky that my hitch didn’t go through the tailgate!

@@jrlra748 glad I could give you some good information!

@@AustinMooney.aka.mrdeezwelds definitely not cheap! $179 USD. That’s why I want to test it in some brutal environments because all my other welding jacket aren’t very comfortable and they don’t last very long, if this one can take the heat over a long period of time than it will definitely be worth the price!