That’s great advice. I have found that to be true too. I’had one guy bring me a small hub and pulley to weld and it took me more time to get my welder out than it did to weld it. When I was done he ask me how much and I just told him to come back the next time something breaks and he’s been back 4 times with something different each time and never questions the price when I tell him.
I just welded a broken ladder rack support for a local roofer. Small 2 1/2” stuff. Thin wall as hell and rusted from the inside. Used 3/32 6011 at 54A. Not fun at all but the family whose roof is being repaired tomorrow will be happy. That’s the pay off. Down the line somewhere that weld joint matters beyond pay and beyond aesthetics of the trade. BTW, I did the weld on a pawn shop inverter that cost me $80 about ten years ago. That’s a win!
Hold firm on your price point based on your experience, and skill. Leave your clients satisfied, and go beyond the call of duty. Word travels fast in this industry, especially, when you get connected and build a network within the community. Various fb groups, forums, etc. Showcase your work. Don't get in a bidding war to win jobs. You'll lose. Skilled welders ain't cheap. Cheap welders are not skilled. People get what they pay for honestly, they are paying you for your experience, not your time. If a customer tries to nickel, and dime you for a project, or a job. It's in your best interest to walk away. Do some research on what welders are charging based on their experience, and particular projects you are interested in doing for work in your demographic. That's your best bet.
Another method of repair would be to weld that up slick it off and split another piece of tubing with that ID, then either 45 each end in the same or opposite directions, clamp the repair tube on and weld all that up over the repair. When welding on tubing of that size and where it is I found that a perpendicular weld will almost always crack beside the weld and then fail. In aircraft fuselage repair, it is a big no no to weld perpendicular to the tube. It is always cut on an angle and then welded, rosette welds work wonders too in that application.
I like it Austin and nice work on the livestock trailer repair ! AMEN at 10:00 as it's the small projects that open the door for bigger jobs . Some times I'd rather have 10 smaller jobs then one big one . Keep up the good work !
Looks like a good job for what you had to work with. Those cows don’t care if the weld isn’t perfect! I agree about doing the small jobs. It usually works into bigger jobs. Like greasing the gate hinges, little things like that is what some customers remember. Let that trailer leave out in better shape than it came in. Keep up the good work, and be safe!
I'll tell you austin welding on ole junk/ rusty or old metal , when you get back on a pipe line with all that new pipe it seem so easy to weld and it is that rod just burns into that new steel so smooth
The old retired welder I see you put some 7018 on that bad boy she gonna hold good job been waiting on a new video hang in there work gonna pick up for you
"Dont let that door hit my door" I love how u made us part of the project! Keep up the videos man. Your vids just get better and better Full time youtuber!? I hope!!!!
Im currently a student welder from El Paso, TX. I really like watching you use different techniques and the way you hold on to your rod to keep it where you want it. Those little things help me get better! Keep the content up!
Awesome video as always. One of the things that keeps me engaged with the content you keep turning out is your positive attitude. Thanks for everything you do.
Could not agree anymore on the 'lil project'. You fix that trailer now and he's going to tell 100 more people you weld and before you know it, you won't have enough room in your yard or your shop for all the smaller jobs. Best of luck you and the channel, big fan.
Old Pipeliner up here in Muskoka, Ont. Canada and I gotta say I enjoy the way you role young fellow good job as usual Austin. I worked around welding on big inch jobs from British Columbia across this great land to Cape Breton on the east coast and had the luck to work with a lot of the best, be they welders, operators, teamsters, labour's, heck I'll even throw in a few engineers, safety hands, environment consultants, surveyors, field office support, Inspectors, land agents etc. The game changed a lot from when I was a bronc to what we have today and I guess mostly for the better. I know we put a safer better engineered product to bed now than in the past I think mainly due to safety, welding, Inspection, coating, environment policy and procedures. I know todays Coating systems add many years of life to the pipeline but it takes everyone out there to do there part, when I first started back in 1969 all or most of the big nuts where U Alls as us canadian boys called you americans. That changed in the early 1970 tees, I will never forget some of those characters that I had the privilege or misfortune to work with or around in my life on the line most of them long gone now. Anyway I get kinda long winded now and again so I'll end with this - Hang on to some of those dollars! Life is full of peaks and valleys and the years have a way of flying by! I though I'd be young forever and there would always be work and the kids would understand why I missed so much, full of good intentions that has lead me hopefully not to the gates of Hell but to being suddenly old and out of work , broke and seemingly unwanted, I and the wife where poor money managers and we are reaping the benefits now. Anyway I bought a little lincoln mig welder about2012 and it sat in my little wood shop for about a year never plugged in, one day one of the finest welders (Murray Earl) a friend I met on the work stopped by to shoot the breeze and asked how I was enjoying the lincoln to which I had to respond that I had not fired it up as I was alittle scared of the damn thing, well he laughed and said he'd never thought of me a chicken sh-t and to fill my boots and he left. I cleaned up a couple of pieces of 3/16 mild steel and hitter, well i welded and ground my way right into new world, I liked It! about a year ago I switched form Flux core to shielding gas and it helped me big time! So I now make and sell the odd piece of Garden, Cottage/Boathouse art to help supplement my measly Canadian government pension, it helps alittle still in the hole and its getting deeper but gives me hope or at the least keeps a Guy from goin crazy, I weld big birds, whales, fish, flowers, Ducks and snails with native rock, oh sold a couple of i don't know what to call them but I incase glass wine bottles in steel and hang them in a 36" ring and raise them up so the morning sun can whisper through the glass, some think I am odd some call me an artist, thank God didn't make us all the same is all I know! Mike (starving artist) Ps. real reason iI started this conversation was to suggest that you might have dropped a little air out of trailer tires and backed it in shop to use your Mig. Just a thought. Thanks for taking the time to hear me out I guess I needed to talk! Take care, you are a good hand Austin, all the best!
Thanks for that Mike, we all can be grateful for our life and a life well lived, and for our children that are out there in the world on their own, I know I am. Have a good rest of your life.... Oh, and I hear you, I'm right behind you.
Austin try .045 innershield mp by Lincoln dcen current self shielding wire works great for that type of repair. no gas needed. I have been welding for 46 years and enjoy your videos!! keep up the good work attitude. Things will pick up in the industry spoon !
The welds look good for what you had to work with Austin. 👍👍👍👍👍 I loved it when I worked in a shop and sometimes when work was slow I did "projects" to stay busy. Always something different and something new to learn. Those were good times. 😊
oilfield is fucked for a while now, gonna be a few years before it picks up. the only ones working are the service folks. but theyre being put outta work too.
ill have to agree with that smaller project work will lead to bigger project work! Me simply tacking some stainless pieces together for my parents grill led to my neighbor needing hers tacked, leading to my other neighbor needing a custom window well to more custom projects! Love ya bro stay safe!
Looks good Austin . Most likely will hold up for a while under dynamic load . if it cracks out again it will be in the heat affect zone beside the weld . A corner gusset would help to change the lines of stress . In leu of that just weld a couple of vertical beads starting about 2 inches above and ending 2 inches below your horizontal welds . It has worked for me welding bolts to plate
I know I will never be a pipe welder(too old to start now) but I'm sure I'm learning a lot from you! Keep up the good work! You mentioned the Millermatic, I just got a Lincoln 210 MP, I wish I had the opportunity to compare both.
Austin a couple of cans of primer would help protect from weathering, and erosion before customer pick up! I'm not badgering you at all, so please don't judge me harsh for what I see and speak upon to help you, get to be that well rounded businessman.I see tremendous potential in [YOU] and If you don't mind healthy criticism, I hope my eyes and experience can gesture my opinion to help you through your journey of fabrication or welding.
Hi Austin, You are working in a simlar welding circle to me. That being broken farm stuff. it isn't cool, it isn't always pretty, it isn't always clean and it isn't always fun. But it always helps to pay the bills!
Personally I like little projects like those it changes up the days and you sometimes have to think outside the box to get the best repair possible as compared to just throwing beads on fitted joints all day long shutting down the brain and going at it till quitting time
So happy you ended up using stick for this repair -- stick-welding is the next skill I would like to learn. I'm also happy to see your rod sticking and arc misbehaving. If it happens to Austin (on thin stuff, anyway), then it's not the end of the world if it happens to me too :D
I have been known to even do piddly little things, for free. It always comes back in bigger projects! Word of mouth is powerful! What better advertising can there be, than to have your work out there to been seen and a customer attesting to your fairness and skill? Biggest piece of advice? Ugly never leaves my shop!
Id love to start taking on little projects like this soon thanks for the inspiration hopefully I will get a little project like this one soon started my first project making a letter box for someone loving it and just subscribed to your channel
Another good Austin Ross video. I enjoy watching how you approach a problem and come to the solution for it. If you don't want to disclose the cost of that job that's okay but I'd love an idea if what that cost the customer I'm out in a rural area and part of what I plan to do for work is exactly that - pipe fence repair, ranch equipment etc. Just curious if you essentially charge by materials if used or just factor your time or what.
I always enjoy your vids! I’m sure someone has already mentioned this, but wouldn’t this have been a good application for flux core with some 0.35 multi-pass wire? Thanks again!!!
Say Austin, this is Scottie Lewis out of central Texas. Ive been checkin out ur videos and I really get a lot out of them. I do a ton of tig welding but some stick on pipe fence and entryways and of course mig. I wanted to say that ure one hell of a welder and to me u seem like an all around solid dude. Keep them videos coming, uve got all kinds of support from central Texas. Thank u for ur videos brother...awesome! SL
@@arosswelding abosultely. I appreciate ur videos. U know wat ure doing and talk about wat uve got going and thats really cool. Ive been doing a bunch of pipe fence here in Texas and its usually all drill stem and rusty as hell so its hard on the dig. Ive been using 1/8' 6011 rods just cause they get past the rust and all the shit on the pipe. I was wondering could I use the 6011's on the root and another rod on top of that to make a nice looking cap? Ive been doing it all with the 6011's because its like my go to rods. Lol. I can make em look nice with those but seeing with u if I should use a different rod on the finish? Thank u Austin for any advice. And the fence u did with torching the holes out looks really nice. Bet the customer was really happy with that! Looks great.
Why does it seem like pipe line welders always have short even bobbed beds? As a fencer who welds some I've never thought I wish I had less bed I've wanted a couple extra feet before... Good work. Fixed a stock trailer door for a customer a few years back happiest I've ever seen the customer.
Stillwater, often times if you have to turn around on a ROW or maneuver around other trucks and equipment, it pays to have these short beds. That's also why you'll see a ton of single cab bobbed beds on the line. Short and compact, easy to turn around, and less likely to high center
What’s up buddy good video . I like your energy and content I like the way you put together your videos and your mellow attitude . I’ve been watching you wallyz welding world and Jacob schofield . I like you and wally the most just Wally doesn’t really put any real content out like you do
Do a video on your a frame .... I would like to know how you fabbed that sucker up.....I have 2 welding machines..sa 250 ac dc and an sa200....would like to know how it handles ...keep up the good work buddy
I'm sure not a pro welder, but I've done lots of welding on old stock trailers (our ranch is really rough). With stick weld I have found heating material, a little, helps weld to last. Mig is a lot better. Old trailers are sure better to weld on than new ones. The metal in new trailers just doesn't seem as good.
I'm a firm believer in adding a small gusset or at the very least adding additional "pipe" gussets to these gates. Once they break the structural integrity is lost.
Looks descent to me👍.. back in my dads days we stick a smaller DIA. pipe in side to give more strength... if you can find it in your area try “7012” on stick weld jobs like that ... we use it a lot on critical thin materials in the plant ... it has really good cosmetics and proper penetration with out burn through ... it has the ease feeling of 6010
Ruben Rios I never seen or heard of 6012 until I worked at anchor hocking and a guy handed me a few sticks and said try them out on thin brackets to mount conduits to the sheet metal sides of the machine.... it welded like 6010 but the slag came off like 7018 with shiny weld
i welded up a riding mower mower deck last weekend for a customer. by far the the majority of the stuff i fix for the general public is stuff that was MIG welded in the first place. it has always been my exp. that MIG has a serious lack of penetration and in a high stress or high vibration application the MIG welds tend to fail. i welded the hangar back on the mower deck with 7018 and stitch welded the off side of the hangar as well which was not welded in the first place. i'll bet dollars to donuts she won't be back. big jobs or small jobs they all pay the bills.
Since that line appeared to be a weakness why did you not cut through the breaks and add an inner sleeve? Overkill? not high stress? welds broke but the frame is still straight? Many ways to look at it. Good channel.
Think it would have been easier to take the back doors off the hinges then put them back on when repaired? Or were the hinges welded to where it’s way more work to take them off? A question from an inexperienced novice trying to learn.
what would you charge for something like that ross? i take a lot on small projects like that when they come up and my charge be about 100 bucks 6011 then 7018 wonder if thats cheap? also economy is bad south tx. theres a lot of welders down here going for 15 hr yet ive seen some their welds and are bad really bad cold welds
This isn’t a crappy project, it’s perfect. A crappy project is someone asking you to fix there lawnmower seat and not wanting to pay the price of fixing it.
Every one of these I work on, I try to get the owner to let me close up that "asophagus funnel" between the two doors because believe me more than a few nice steers have gotten their heads between the gates and choked out!
Hey Austin, do you charge by the job as a whole or by the hour? I often get someone asking for a total bid before I start the job and to be honest it's kind of hard to know how much to charge before I dig into it. I just hate to sell myself short. Any advice would be much appreciated!
truck n tools +hourly rate so for example i charge 50$ for my truck and shit , not including materials like steel i gotta buy or shit like that then 20$ an hour for that type of work hes doing. if they cant/dont wanna pay it, it aint worth it. them customers that try and nickle and dime you are the worst kinda people to deal with cause theyll want more shit for free or they bitch and moan about the price. they can go fuck dirt if they dont like what i charge. most of the time it works out great cause the customers know you aint foolin around & take your work seriously.
🤔 why not take the gate off the trailer and perform the repairs in the shop? On pipe breaks like those. I would cut the broken ends off, insert cold roll round stock. Then weld both cut ends to that.
Austin, I think your on the fence about rather u should have joined the 798 . Rather u are working or not u still have to pay the union dues right? I know things are slow right now on the pipeline in certain areas but your brother quitting the 798 might follow you around if u know what I mean . They have clicks in the union circle too.
Thanks for the video. I always like to see stick welding. Seems to be more of a craft. I always take more pride in my stick welding than my Mig welding.
Self shield fluxcore wire with low settings to not burn through thin steel. ALSO, i have a silver 1962 dime in my collection box, i noticed you also collect?
@@unasoto1 You should be on the lookout for the double die on those 1969 dimes, they may not be silver but worth more with the small defects, especially if it has a "S" mint mark, your talking some serious bills right there
That’s great advice. I have found that to be true too. I’had one guy bring me a small hub and pulley to weld and it took me more time to get my welder out than it did to weld it. When I was done he ask me how much and I just told him to come back the next time something breaks and he’s been back 4 times with something different each time and never questions the price when I tell him.
This is Kimchi Welder who is uploading welding video in Canada. Thank you for the informative video today.👍👍👍👍
I just welded a broken ladder rack support for a local roofer. Small 2 1/2” stuff. Thin wall as hell and rusted from the inside. Used 3/32 6011 at 54A. Not fun at all but the family whose roof is being repaired tomorrow will be happy. That’s the pay off. Down the line somewhere that weld joint matters beyond pay and beyond aesthetics of the trade. BTW, I did the weld on a pawn shop inverter that cost me $80 about ten years ago. That’s a win!
Your videos since being off the pipeline have gotten tons better. That's not to say your old videos where bad, its a compliment!
Hey Austin you think in the near future you can make a video about pricing and how to price your rig welding services. Thank you!!!
Thats a damn good question brotha. biding is a main concern of mine...hahaha
Hold firm on your price point based on your experience, and skill. Leave your clients satisfied, and go beyond the call of duty. Word travels fast in this industry, especially, when you get connected and build a network within the community. Various fb groups, forums, etc. Showcase your work.
Don't get in a bidding war to win jobs. You'll lose.
Skilled welders ain't cheap. Cheap welders are not skilled. People get what they pay for honestly, they are paying you for your experience, not your time.
If a customer tries to nickel, and dime you for a project, or a job. It's in your best interest to walk away. Do some research on what welders are charging based on their experience, and particular projects you are interested in doing for work in your demographic. That's your best bet.
@@CoD_Maj3st1k great tips buddy. Better late then never haha. I’ll definitely take your words and listen. I preciate it
@@sethq3676 I'm not Austin lol. I'm just another determined welder that follows the channel. That's what I do when I need to price jobs.
Another method of repair would be to weld that up slick it off and split another piece of tubing with that ID, then either 45 each end in the same or opposite directions, clamp the repair tube on and weld all that up over the repair. When welding on tubing of that size and where it is I found that a perpendicular weld will almost always crack beside the weld and then fail. In aircraft fuselage repair, it is a big no no to weld perpendicular to the tube. It is always cut on an angle and then welded, rosette welds work wonders too in that application.
I worked for that trailer company. The welders there used to get away with any kind of welds. Glad I was in the custom fab department
I like it Austin and nice work on the livestock trailer repair ! AMEN at 10:00 as it's the small projects that open the door for bigger jobs . Some times I'd rather have 10 smaller jobs then one big one . Keep up the good work !
Looks like a good job for what you had to work with. Those cows don’t care if the weld isn’t perfect! I agree about doing the small jobs. It usually works into bigger jobs. Like greasing the gate hinges, little things like that is what some customers remember. Let that trailer leave out in better shape than it came in. Keep up the good work, and be safe!
Plz don’t be a welder with that mentality. Maybe Walmart
I'll tell you austin welding on ole junk/ rusty or old metal , when you get back on a pipe line with all that new pipe it seem so easy to weld and it is that rod just burns into that new steel so smooth
The old retired welder I see you put some 7018 on that bad boy she gonna hold good job been waiting on a new video hang in there work gonna pick up for you
"Dont let that door hit my door"
I love how u made us part of the project!
Keep up the videos man. Your vids just get better and better
Full time youtuber!?
I hope!!!!
Im currently a student welder from El Paso, TX. I really like watching you use different techniques and the way you hold on to your rod to keep it where you want it. Those little things help me get better! Keep the content up!
That’s good to hear. I’m glad it’s all helpful. 👌😎
Awesome video as always. One of the things that keeps me engaged with the content you keep turning out is your positive attitude. Thanks for everything you do.
Doing small jobs like that is important because you are making a connection and the attention to detail is what will make a long time customer.
You make everything look easy Mr. Ross 👌🏾
I appreciate the content. Thank you for demonstrating how something is welded right.
Could not agree anymore on the 'lil project'. You fix that trailer now and he's going to tell 100 more people you weld and before you know it, you won't have enough room in your yard or your shop for all the smaller jobs. Best of luck you and the channel, big fan.
Nice job on the repair and even going extra by greasing up the hinges!!!
Old Pipeliner up here in Muskoka, Ont. Canada and I gotta say I enjoy the way you role young fellow good job as usual Austin. I worked around welding on big inch jobs from British Columbia across this great land to Cape Breton on the east coast and had the luck to work with a lot of the best, be they welders, operators, teamsters, labour's, heck I'll even throw in a few engineers, safety hands, environment consultants, surveyors, field office support, Inspectors, land agents etc.
The game changed a lot from when I was a bronc to what we have today and I guess mostly for the better. I know we put a safer better engineered product to bed now than in the past I think mainly due to safety, welding, Inspection, coating, environment policy and procedures. I know todays Coating systems add many years of life to the pipeline but it takes everyone out there to do there part, when I first started back in 1969 all or most of the big nuts where U Alls as us canadian boys called you americans. That changed in the early 1970 tees, I will never forget some of those characters that I had the privilege or misfortune to work with or around in my life on the line most of them long gone now.
Anyway I get kinda long winded now and again so I'll end with this - Hang on to some of those dollars! Life is full of peaks and valleys and the years have a way of flying by! I though I'd be young forever and there would always be work and the kids would understand why I missed so much, full of good intentions that has lead me hopefully not to the gates of Hell but to being suddenly old and out of work , broke and seemingly unwanted, I and the wife where poor money managers and we are reaping the benefits now.
Anyway I bought a little lincoln mig welder about2012 and it sat in my little wood shop for about a year never plugged in, one day one of the finest welders (Murray Earl) a friend I met on the work stopped by to shoot the breeze and asked how I was enjoying the lincoln to which I had to respond that I had not fired it up as I was alittle scared of the damn thing, well he laughed and said he'd never thought of me a chicken sh-t and to fill my boots and he left. I cleaned up a couple of pieces of 3/16 mild steel and hitter, well i welded and ground my way right into new world, I liked It! about a year ago I switched form Flux core to shielding gas and it helped me big time! So I now make and sell the odd piece of Garden, Cottage/Boathouse art to help supplement my measly Canadian government pension, it helps alittle still in the hole and its getting deeper but gives me hope or at the least keeps a Guy from goin crazy, I weld big birds, whales, fish, flowers, Ducks and snails with native rock, oh sold a couple of i don't know what to call them but I incase glass wine bottles in steel and hang them in a 36" ring and raise them up so the morning sun can whisper through the glass, some think I am odd some call me an artist, thank God didn't make us all the same is all I know!
Mike (starving artist)
Ps. real reason iI started this conversation was to suggest that you might have dropped a little air out of trailer tires and backed it in shop to use your Mig. Just a thought.
Thanks for taking the time to hear me out I guess I needed to talk!
Take care, you are a good hand Austin, all the best!
Thanks for that Mike, we all can be grateful for our life and a life well lived, and for our children that are out there in the world on their own, I know I am. Have a good rest of your life....
Oh, and I hear you, I'm right behind you.
Austin try .045 innershield mp by Lincoln dcen current self shielding wire works great for that type of repair. no gas needed. I have been welding for 46 years and enjoy your videos!! keep up the good work attitude. Things will pick up in the industry spoon !
Thats exactly what I use on all my mild steel jobs. Especially when my Lincoln isn't made to run gas.
The welds look good for what you had to work with Austin.
👍👍👍👍👍
I loved it when I worked in a shop and sometimes when work
was slow I did "projects" to stay busy. Always something different
and something new to learn. Those were good times. 😊
I knew Andy Hess, back in 1981
Good stuff Austin. I’m just glad you left the pipelines!
Hey Austin, nice video, keep up the good work, If I was 30 years younger I would be right there with you on the pipe line!!!!
It’s good to see you getting all this work with pipelining seemingly at a standstill these days. It pays to be flexible, and not stubborn.
oilfield is fucked for a while now, gonna be a few years before it picks up. the only ones working are the service folks. but theyre being put outta work too.
Thanks much for the videos. I learned a lot from you. Thanks for taking the time and effort.
ill have to agree with that smaller project work will lead to bigger project work! Me simply tacking some stainless pieces together for my parents grill led to my neighbor needing hers tacked, leading to my other neighbor needing a custom window well to more custom projects! Love ya bro stay safe!
Looks good Austin . Most likely will hold up for a while under dynamic load . if it cracks out again it will be in the heat affect zone beside the weld . A corner gusset would help to change the lines of stress . In leu of that just weld a couple of vertical beads starting about 2 inches above and ending 2 inches below your horizontal welds . It has worked for me welding bolts to plate
If the original design had a diagonal brace you probably wouldn’t have got that job. Like your vids, thanks for sharing 🇬🇧
I also typically add reinforcement, If it failed with an original design improve it.
YOU BE HAVING THE SMOOTHEST BEATS !
Love the vids man. You need to out content out lol always enjoy fridays knowing you're posting something new
I know I will never be a pipe welder(too old to start now) but I'm sure I'm learning a lot from you! Keep up the good work! You mentioned the Millermatic, I just got a Lincoln 210 MP, I wish I had the opportunity to compare both.
Austin
Good advice. Small things lead to bigger things.
Best regards from Albion Park NSW Australia
I would've used flux core mig. I used it alot welding on my camper and its so handy outdoors since I don't have a stick welder yet.
"Grease Worms" Got in to those hinges. Got in to my CV joint on my front drive shaft.
Good advice Austin…
Cool advice at the end of the video
i agree i took every job that come along
Austin a couple of cans of primer would help protect from weathering, and erosion before customer pick up! I'm not badgering you at all, so please don't judge me harsh for what I see and speak upon to help you, get to be that well rounded businessman.I see tremendous potential in [YOU] and If you don't mind healthy criticism, I hope my eyes and experience can gesture my opinion to help you through your journey of fabrication or welding.
Hi Austin, You are working in a simlar welding circle to me. That being broken farm stuff. it isn't cool, it isn't always pretty, it isn't always clean and it isn't always fun. But it always helps to pay the bills!
Personally I like little projects like those it changes up the days and you sometimes have to think outside the box to get the best repair possible as compared to just throwing beads on fitted joints all day long shutting down the brain and going at it till quitting time
So happy you ended up using stick for this repair -- stick-welding is the next skill I would like to learn. I'm also happy to see your rod sticking and arc misbehaving. If it happens to Austin (on thin stuff, anyway), then it's not the end of the world if it happens to me too :D
great work
Nice trailer :-)
I have been known to even do piddly little things, for free. It always comes back in bigger projects! Word of mouth is powerful! What better advertising can there be, than to have your work out there to been seen and a customer attesting to your fairness and skill? Biggest piece of advice? Ugly never leaves my shop!
Hey Austin I been watching your videos for a while I’m from Az
word of mouth is the best advertising to promote you business
yup so you better not make no bonehead mistakes or itll follow ya like a fly
Id love to start taking on little projects like this soon thanks for the inspiration hopefully I will get a little project like this one soon started my first project making a letter box for someone loving it and just subscribed to your channel
It’s our pleasure! Thank you for your support! Thanks for the sub!
We are wishing you all the best! 😉
Good job amigo ....
Another good Austin Ross video. I enjoy watching how you approach a problem and come to the solution for it. If you don't want to disclose the cost of that job that's okay but I'd love an idea if what that cost the customer I'm out in a rural area and part of what I plan to do for work is exactly that - pipe fence repair, ranch equipment etc. Just curious if you essentially charge by materials if used or just factor your time or what.
Your correct
I always enjoy your vids! I’m sure someone has already mentioned this, but wouldn’t this have been a good application for flux core with some 0.35 multi-pass wire? Thanks again!!!
Flux core mig wire. I use it a lot. Good option outdoors.
Say Austin, this is Scottie Lewis out of central Texas. Ive been checkin out ur videos and I really get a lot out of them. I do a ton of tig welding but some stick on pipe fence and entryways and of course mig. I wanted to say that ure one hell of a welder and to me u seem like an all around solid dude. Keep them videos coming, uve got all kinds of support from central Texas. Thank u for ur videos brother...awesome! SL
I sure appreciate the support.
@@arosswelding abosultely. I appreciate ur videos. U know wat ure doing and talk about wat uve got going and thats really cool. Ive been doing a bunch of pipe fence here in Texas and its usually all drill stem and rusty as hell so its hard on the dig. Ive been using 1/8' 6011 rods just cause they get past the rust and all the shit on the pipe. I was wondering could I use the 6011's on the root and another rod on top of that to make a nice looking cap? Ive been doing it all with the 6011's because its like my go to rods. Lol. I can make em look nice with those but seeing with u if I should use a different rod on the finish? Thank u Austin for any advice. And the fence u did with torching the holes out looks really nice. Bet the customer was really happy with that! Looks great.
I love the hip hop beats. Got me jamming !!
Why does it seem like pipe line welders always have short even bobbed beds?
As a fencer who welds some I've never thought I wish I had less bed I've wanted a couple extra feet before...
Good work.
Fixed a stock trailer door for a customer a few years back happiest I've ever seen the customer.
Stillwater, often times if you have to turn around on a ROW or maneuver around other trucks and equipment, it pays to have these short beds. That's also why you'll see a ton of single cab bobbed beds on the line. Short and compact, easy to turn around, and less likely to high center
@@tyl4045
Thanks for the actual response that makes good sense.
Those trailers are notorious for breaking in those exact spots and the hinges.
Your funny, "well its windy today", dude its Oklahoma, its ALWAYS windy :)
What’s up buddy good video . I like your energy and content I like the way you put together your videos and your mellow attitude . I’ve been watching you wallyz welding world and Jacob schofield . I like you and wally the most just Wally doesn’t really put any real content out like you do
Round stock or a pipe that fits inside would be the best way to give it a longer fix
3/32 6011 is amazing for these kinds of jobs.
Do a video on your a frame .... I would like to know how you fabbed that sucker up.....I have 2 welding machines..sa 250 ac dc and an sa200....would like to know how it handles ...keep up the good work buddy
Hello!
Thanks for the video, big LIKE! But why didn't you reinforce the construction? Just a few sheets on it.
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I'm sure not a pro welder, but I've done lots of welding on old stock trailers (our ranch is really rough). With stick weld I have found heating material, a little, helps weld to last. Mig is a lot better. Old trailers are sure better to weld on than new ones. The metal in new trailers just doesn't seem as good.
Aston could u get the audio on highly magnetized pipe screaming while ur burn rod
I'm a firm believer in adding a small gusset or at the very least adding additional "pipe" gussets to these gates. Once they break the structural integrity is lost.
I agree on doing small jobs eventually they’ll call u back for something bigger $$$ ..
Hey Austin I wanna know a tip on welding pressurized hydraulic oil lines 1 inch od .. welding over someone else's trash weld
Looks descent to me👍.. back in my dads days we stick a smaller DIA. pipe in side to give more strength... if you can find it in your area try “7012” on stick weld jobs like that ... we use it a lot on critical thin materials in the plant ... it has really good cosmetics and proper penetration with out burn through ... it has the ease feeling of 6010
Wow, very interesting. I’m going to have to remember this. Thank for sharing.
Austin Ross wait ... my mistake it’s “6012”.... lol sorry
@@zachjewitt2589
6012? I dont think my local WS has those in stock?
Ruben Rios I never seen or heard of 6012 until I worked at anchor hocking and a guy handed me a few sticks and said try them out on thin brackets to mount conduits to the sheet metal sides of the machine.... it welded like 6010 but the slag came off like 7018 with shiny weld
@@zachjewitt2589
Im gonna have to ask around, i do alot of thin metal welding jobs on the side, especially thin rusty panels
i welded up a riding mower mower deck last weekend for a customer. by far the the majority of the stuff i fix for the general public is stuff that was MIG welded in the first place. it has always been my exp. that MIG has a serious lack of penetration and in a high stress or high vibration application the MIG welds tend to fail. i welded the hangar back on the mower deck with 7018 and stitch welded the off side of the hangar as well which was not welded in the first place. i'll bet dollars to donuts she won't be back. big jobs or small jobs they all pay the bills.
Since that line appeared to be a weakness why did you not cut through the breaks and add an inner sleeve? Overkill? not high stress? welds broke but the frame is still straight? Many ways to look at it. Good channel.
Will a miller big 40 diesel suffice on the pipeline?
Think it would have been easier to take the back doors off the hinges then put them back on when repaired? Or were the hinges welded to where it’s way more work to take them off? A question from an inexperienced novice trying to learn.
Pretty brave leaving truck hook up
Hey Austin what kind of flap disc do you use?
I would have probably went and seen if i had an old bolt or something to put inside the pipe and than reweld it
Yeah or another piece of pipe like a sleeve inside of it.
Maybe his wedding band(chill ring)?!...😁
Work leads to work. Sitting on the couch leads to suicide. Good to see another guy out there hustling
Looks good to me! VT ok
Why not flux core in the wirefeed?
We mig in the wind, use your support hand as a block. Also try to put the wind to the back side of the gun....makes sense? Lol
Use core wire dont have to worry about the wind!
Time to get some dual shield mig wire...wind friendly with in reason
What electrode did you use?
Nevermind 7018
Hey Austin, would it be worth it removing the doors?
what would you charge for something like that ross? i take a lot on small projects like that when they come up and my charge be about 100 bucks 6011 then 7018 wonder if thats cheap? also economy is bad south tx. theres a lot of welders down here going for 15 hr yet ive seen some their welds and are bad really bad cold welds
you could use gasless mig wire
This isn’t a crappy project, it’s perfect. A crappy project is someone asking you to fix there lawnmower seat and not wanting to pay the price of fixing it.
Every one of these I work on, I try to get the owner to let me close up that "asophagus funnel" between the two doors because believe me more than a few nice steers have gotten their heads between the gates and choked out!
Size frame are the glasses?..
Get some canvas welding screens.
Hey Austin, do you charge by the job as a whole or by the hour? I often get someone asking for a total bid before I start the job and to be honest it's kind of hard to know how much to charge before I dig into it. I just hate to sell myself short. Any advice would be much appreciated!
truck n tools +hourly rate so for example i charge 50$ for my truck and shit , not including materials like steel i gotta buy or shit like that then 20$ an hour for that type of work hes doing. if they cant/dont wanna pay it, it aint worth it. them customers that try and nickle and dime you are the worst kinda people to deal with cause theyll want more shit for free or they bitch and moan about the price. they can go fuck dirt if they dont like what i charge. most of the time it works out great cause the customers know you aint foolin around & take your work seriously.
@@johndowe7003 I don't turn on the lights to my shop for less than 65 dollars an hour. How little do you pay yourself?
🤔 why not take the gate off the trailer and perform the repairs in the shop?
On pipe breaks like those. I would cut the broken ends off, insert cold roll round stock. Then weld both cut ends to that.
My thoughts exactly
Enjoy your videos Austin. You mentioned attending a Tech School in a previous video. Was it Meridian Tech?
Yes it was
@@arosswelding cool. Velega your instructor? Did you compete in SkillsUSA?
Austin, I think your on the fence about rather u should have joined the 798 . Rather u are working or not u still have to pay the union dues right? I know things are slow right now on the pipeline in certain areas but your brother quitting the 798 might follow you around if u know what I mean . They have clicks in the union circle too.
Thanks for the video. I always like to see stick welding. Seems to be more of a craft. I always take more pride in my stick welding than my Mig welding.
Have you done a shop tour? if so I haven’t found it yet
Not yet.
I guess you need a new shop that you can back that trailer into.
Just starting welding is this a good job to use flux core? I want to do little jobs like this and fences with my flux core welder
Self shield fluxcore wire with low settings to not burn through thin steel. ALSO, i have a silver 1962 dime in my collection box, i noticed you also collect?
It 1969 the year I was born yes I have a small collection 🙂🙃🙂
@@unasoto1
You should be on the lookout for the double die on those 1969 dimes, they may not be silver but worth more with the small defects, especially if it has a "S" mint mark, your talking some serious bills right there
Where is the best place in Texas or Oklahoma to have a welding bed built for a 2019 F350 dually ? I don’t have the time to do it myself or I would
What style are you lookin for?
Austin Ross morning have pics of what I’m wanting but not sure how to describe it, you have a way for me to send you some pictures ?
You can email me. Arosswelding@gmail.com
Austin Ross ok sent
Is there any way for an european to work as pipe welder in US for a year or so?
On some trailer height adjustments maybe consider letting the air out of the tires🤔🤔👍✌