1000 AMP STICK WELDING!! | Manually Welding with the Worlds Largest Electrode
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- This is the World's largest stick electrode and today we're doing some manual stick welding with it! We're in Houston, TX today with the WeldTube Squad welding with some 3/4" Cor-Met F25 stick electrode. The rod is 4 feet long and weighs approximately 20 pounds. Add in the 40 pound stinger and you've got yourself a 60 pound, 1000 amp beast.
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what shade were you using at 1000 amps?
When your company appreciates you they spend $600 just so the welders can have some fun on the weekend.
wish i lived closer i would love to have seen that in person.
@@fixt100 is that how much that rod cost ? And good question @ bikesfightback !
@@matthewb7049 not the rod(still prob 90$+ each rod tho) ,, i know that plate that thick is spendy and is never tossed ever, and basically losing the mtr for it would be taken as a personal insult from you by your foreman...
@@fixt100 mtr?
"Any tips?"
"Yea, just keep an eye on your pond."
LMAO
Seldian this is. hilarious 🤣
More like a lake :-)
rofl
Nice one, "Jerry Seinweld" ;)
What do you call a welder who also performs stand-up comedy?
A "3G comic".
When you have to bust out the cutting torch every time you stick your rod.
Shooot... at that point id probably stick with the torch.
cutting wheel might work too
Yeah that would suck
@@zacharywilburn7253 yeah that would suck! Probably melt something or cut power out to the town ! Lol that Is crazy.
Best comment ever
I hate sticking my rod. Couldn’t imagine with this thing.
My uncle , who literally welded his entire working career , told me that when he was welding in the ship yards during WW2,, that he was welding with 1 inch rod powered by two 600 amp pipeliners in parallel,,, on a scaffold , using a harness strapped across his chest, and that he had to literally lean into the rod because of the arc blow, he said that they were only allowed to weld 1 hour and off 2 hours because of the heat,,, with plenty of protection, he said they were using two #12 lenses stacked, and as I recall, he said that they were welding the armor plating on some of the NAVY ships.. he said they were using pulleys and ropes just to support the multi conductor welding cables and he said it took yet another man to help strike the arc, holding the rod mid point, till the welder had a steady arc and to hold the rod till it was about half burned . this is what he told me,,,
That's insane
@RoMMeL1337ak47 I'll bet . That's alot of current there .
FunFact...the use of these rods , these machines, in the navy shipbuilding yards...
Is the origin of the phillidelphia experiment.
Literally all these rods arcing off and welding at various locations at more or less the same times caused some weird shit to happen.
Like tools missing, more like vanishing and reappering...and by tools i mean even lincoln machines etc.
Something about the amperage and electricity, the pinching of space and time, the arc itself caused weird things to happen.
So if you know about the weirdness of the phillidelphia experiment... Which actually and historically did happen...then what i started out with by saying tools, machines were disappearing and reapperaing...well, doesn't.sound too strange, relatively speaking.
Cheers and cool video ..
Crazy...the phillidelphia experimemt was started because of welding.
@@rolsonray Sounds like nonsense to me. Throw some sodium in water and you'll see probably more amperage than a lightning bolt take place to blow apart the sodium. Nothing paranormal happens with that.
@@timramich shit i dunno..i heard that from someone reading the story
At that point it's no longer dimes you're laying, its f'ing CDs
SG43 lmaoooooo
Whole dollars*
Records?
you're laying whole LP's bruh :D
Right? 😂
So this is why California's electrical grid went down
Its like 36kW ...
@@photonic_induction2633 that + the power grid went down cause PGE purposefully shut it down... don't quit yer day job bro ur a terrible comedian
@@photonic_induction2633< not to mention the stolen screen name.
Andrew Delashaw Indeed. Quite lame to impersonate other big CZcams channels.
Lol
I don’t know that I’d call that “stick” welding. More like “branch” or maybe “trunk” welding!
35 yrs of welding and I've never even heard of a rod that big! Damn I'd love to try that!
Right?! 😂
Metal Worker that’s what she said
you can have my turn at it. my back hurts just watching.
"This effect requires GPU acceleration". - Adobe Premiere
I came to the comments to see who else noticed
Same
Me too! Wondered what was causing it! iPhone 8 in my case.
@@Churchill250267 When using Adobe Premiere to edit your videos if you export them before the effects have finished being rendered you get a warning like that in the result.
This is why people use Final Cut Pro and dump Adobe and their old bloated crappy code 😑
Thats an Abom sized welding rod
Yeah definitely lol
He's going to want one if he sees this
Proper skookum. :o
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@@YCbCr have AvE do a boltr on that baby
Imagine sticking that electrode...
You'd need a forklift to get it loose!
Robin Boots 😂😂😂
With the amount of heat that bad girl probably makes you'd have to try damn hard to stick it to something 😂
@@WendigoLLC oh trust me, I could make that happen
Robin Boots for this rod you need a jackhammer for slag and a plasma cutter for stuck rods
Lol, bust out the grinder or plasma cutter
Why would anyone dislike this? I think this was just amazing. I never knew you could make electrodes that big, let alone weld such beautifully with it. Mad respect and greetings from Costa Rica!
I was on a tour of Hoover Dam one time and saw a guy stick welding on one of the massive generators with what looked 3/8 rod and I thought that was badass, but this, this is epic! 😁
Definitely a Time saver . Who's the guy that wants to try it over head 😨
I'd send it
I'm your huckleberry.
Curtis von Epp 🤯🤯🤯😭
Try who's the "Fool" that wants to try it overhead!
@@tedh.8356 Just physics and amperage. Of course depending on if the flux is an all position type. My bet is probably designed for flat only.
How did this never make it on Home Improvement or Tool Time with Tim Taylor. What a great gag it would have been. MORE POWER!!!
Hahahahahahahahaha Tim would have gone up in flames
Send one to Red Green
James Harrell, Red Green’s not a welder, he’s a grinder!
@@Hoaxer51 hey hey now. I've seen him pull out the ol rolling J.B. before. The grey stick. Makes him a marine welder right?
I'm pretty sure the powers-that-be would have pulled the plug on that idea right quick.
"what is he most American thing you have done?"
Weld.com: "Yes"
Why is that particularly american in any way?... Jokes like this one work sometimes. Others they dont..
@@peteraugust5295 And here, it worked...
@@michaelmoyo7250 Welding isnt american in anyway....
@@SMLSammy I suppose it didn't originate in America, therefore it can't be considered American. Other non-American things include hunting, fishing, liking trucks, fireworks, or grilling/barbecuing! So you're absolutely right!
Why do you think welding is somehow particularly American..?
Now lets see vertical up and overhead ! Thanks for the video.
I was looking for an outline of three guys and a ladder burnt into the back wall from that nonsense. Crazy.
a lot of funny comments, but yours made me fall off the chair! Thank you for that !
Place I worked back in 1970s lot of heavy stick welding with 3/16 rod at about 200- 300 amps. Sometimes some heavy wire panels would be a little long and need trimming, put a guy on it to trim with a welder. Turn welder up to 500 amps and burn- trim the wires, from across the shop it looked like small atomic explosion with mushroom cloud
This is definitely a case of: "My rod's bigger than your rod!!"
And they say "Size doesn't matter....." Geez
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Next video: “Welding with the Death star”
EbbOneMint you could tig with the star forge
😂
I really enjoy these non standard application/process videos, no one else is making this kind of content! Awesome video!
3/4 rod, 1000 amps. Hell I hit the like button at that point.
DITTO
AMEN!!! I'm not even
I was gonna say I'm not even a real welder but that's awesome!
69 likes!!
You're welcome.
When you absolutely positively need to get all the filler metal in in one pass.
Can relate
Secpnd best comment, i. That cade lets see a 3/4 7024 rod, they fill like crazy
Ship's propeller shaft bearings...
Hell, I coulda used these to weld up the extensions we put onto the Stay vanes in a Hydropower station.
1 inch deep, 2 inch wide vertical V weld. 4 months work, 14 hr days. 30 days in a row.
I worked in a casting repair shop where we repaired castings for railway intersections. We had a 900amp and a 500amp stick welder pigged together. We used it for cleaning the casting with air arc gouging. The rods were 3/4" diameter. Remember first time I tried it. It took 2 hands and had a huge kick to it. Was the first time I tig welded copper to repair the gouging heads as well.
I like how they tried to give tips “keep your eye on the puddle”. More like “drag that sink hole of metal down yan’der”.
yonder
@@reallyhappenings5597 in this situation its yander
That's not a puddle, that's a pond!
Over yander!!!👍🤠
I saw 1000 amps and my eyes lit up like headlights
Evan Cote right? It tickled over 1,000 for a bit, my heart was racing, that’s how you bring blackouts to your neighborhood!
I once ran a 1/4" electrode and it was like working on the sun, no wish to ever repeat that.
for anyone wondering the purpose of such a large electrode, this process is also known as flood welding, or massive electrode welding and it's primary use is in foundries for repairing dies, forging hammers and similar very heavy structures where the appearance of the weld is not important. These rods can be burned anywhere from 1000 - 2000 amps, with deposition rates upwards of 60 lb/ hr. Red- D- Arc has available 1000 amp machines that can be paralleled together for 2000 amp at 100% duty cycle. Sure to make the electric company smile from ear to ear
Can't carry many of those babies in your coverall side pocket😆 great vid boys thanks👍
They’ll need to install a grease zerk on the electric meter dial for that😂
The bill is measured in rpm instead of kwh
I bet the electric meter was spinning like a gyro!
thats electricity for a small country in afrika ... .....................
It looked to be averaging ~40,000 watts, so yeah. That's roughly the maximum current a 200 amp 240v residential service can handle. The old rotary electrical meters spun about 120 RPM at this load.
That's only about $4 an hour, at 10 cents per kWh. Electricity is dirt cheap.
@@andybaldman where you live ;) , in socialist germany we pay 3x as much at the moment
@@hyperhektor7733 Isn't it a huge difference as well between residential and industrial power cost. Atleast in norway it is. We pay around 0.12 usd for residential and 0.04 usd per kwh industrial.
Do you really pay 0.3 kwh usd in germany?
*(just googled it. damn man that some expensive ass power)
I'd hate to have to keep a box of those welding rods around.
When You need a goose neck trailer for your rods alone, that's what you would call OVERSIZE 😂😂
in WHAT oven ?
and the electrode oven was so big.
"A little bit of undercut"- *keyboard inspector intensifies*
Greta Thunberg just pissed her panties.. 🙄😏
Keyboard Weld Inspectors***THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND DOES NOT MEET AWS STANDARDS***
@@epixdevo3180 🤣🤣🤣
I want to see some overhead , vertical up welding .
"It will put some hair on your chest." Think it's more likely to take it off.
😂😂😂
"Just grind it a bit and it'll look good"
Thats makes you a grinder not a welder. Lol.
Before the actual welding began I was almost positive that thing was going to blow a hole right through the work piece.
If they had one in a 6010 they would have.
heh. I looked up the rod and saw its data sheet. 1000 amps is the minimum for the size of the rod.
I've seen this in a foundry I worked in in the 60's, but I didn't know it was a 1000 amp !!!, great VIDEO. Thanks, William.
That was so BADASS! I have the exact same 1200 at work. I use up to 3/4 inch carbon arc rods. It's almost a violent process sometimes. You guys have to do this on a show! Carbon Arc cutting at 1000 amps with 3/4x17" copper clad rods will blow your mind what it can cut!! Thanks!
That would be cool to see.
We used a gasoline torch in demolition. It cut through 7 inch vault door steel, but the torch was able to cut through 18 inch thick steel. Really had to have some air pressure with a huge tip.
I love the closeup, you can clearly see the rod as it melts away. Never seen that in any other video, awesome stuff!
I stand corrected! I have a old buzzbox that can crank out 385 amp and have said to myself there isn't anything I could ever use it for lol 😆 welp time to get some bigger rods
"It'll put done hair on your chest", yeah and it'll burn it right off too...
deathsicon more like it’ll put tumors all over your body. I’m sorry bad joke
Back in the day, I saw some guys use these rods in a ship yard when i was running my puny little 7018s lol. They used 2 welders and in between rods they would alternate dropping the stingers in a bucket of water to cool them down. I was possibly a little jealous.
40 volts at 1000 amps. 53 horsepower right there. That is a beast of a machine.
When your base material is your electrode.
How your friend describes his welding experience for the first couple months
Incredible!
Back in '92 my high school metalshop teacher brought in a MIG machine that had been donated by a shipyard. This thing was ancient, and about the size of a Ford Fiesta. I distinctly remember that 440v wouldn't run it and that the lowest output setting on the dial was like 200A.
Did they throw in some 1/2" wire and some old battleships to practice on?
“Gonna run a weave or a stringer?”
“How about neither.”
Save on electric during the winter. 10 minutes running that keeps the whole house warm all day
More like the whole week..
I seen Chuck Norris deposition repair a 6" STD hot pipe in the 5 position with one of these rods in the field using a custom SA 200 that had a 525 Horse ISX Cummins motor strapped to a 5000 amp armature. His machine was rated at a 360 degree round house to the face duty cycle.
Love this man. Y'all keep living the dream for the rest of us who are still coming up.
Not a real welder in the world wouldn't want to give that a go!
Dennis White, I disagree. I am 6’8”, 360lb former Division 1 offensive lineman turned welder. The whole time I was watching this I was thinking “I gotta try this”!
Steve Taylor I think you read what he said wrong
Missed the N’T didn’t I?
@@stevetaylor1778 i c what you did there
@@stevetaylor1778 No worries - We all wanna go at this - you just prove my point.
8:26 LOL "This effect requires GPU acceleration"
The Hollow Moon theory makes sense now. So it's two empty halves welded together with this rig.👊👨🏭
I work for the company that makes that electrode.I got to experience running it for the first time during a weld test for QC and it was wild. Video does a great job and showing the whole process.
Coolest welding process I've ever seen. I'd love to run a couple passes with that thing. Bad ass!!
Awesome! You didn't trip the circuit breaker at the power substation, so all in all a successful run. What kind of penetration did it get? Flip the plate over!
That's some beautiful camera work showing the welding process, well done!
Watched it in weldtube, watch it again here.
So fun watching it!
They borrowed a welding rod from Chuck Norris.
Cocky Dude: Hey Yo, Chuck, what rod do you weld with?
Chuck pulls out 3/4 inch...
more like his sounding rod...
"insulated" that looks like duct tape lmao
Do they make a smoke in hailer big enough ?.😨
Nah that's clear shrink wrap lol.
Is that pretty dangerous., holding it like that, olds aren't enough to saturate the users body huh.
@@ryanb1874 Only dangerous if you're wet, and even then it's 60V and there's a guy on the button. I was an Ironworker for a while, had a whole month of the Houston rainy season where I was doing trusses and such and was part of the circuit every time I had to change a rod. Shit that makes you not need coffee. 60V from arm to balls to ground. Not deadly for anyone that doesn't have a heart condition though.
@@AtlasReburdened volts don't mean shit a tazer is 500k- 1million volts it's the amps that kill and anything over .1 amps is lethal for reference if you shorted this rod to the material you'd be pushing over 1000 amps through your body
Back in 2003 when Caterpillar made excavators in Illinois. I toured the factory. The boom box sections were robot welded. The cast steel ends of boom, were stick welded like this by hand.
The rods were cut to specific length for the weld to be done. There weld travel speed was very fast. What I'll never forget is the sound. It actually shook your chest. Kinda took your breath away.
That's the first time I've seen an Olympic-sized weld pool!
Good day, I can not imagine the High Electric Magnetic Field ( EMF ) generated by this 1000 Amp Stick welding 😉👍
Finally a stick that lasts 😂 brilliant nice one guys
Yup, clamp one up, weld all week!
I got one of these for my welding instructor as a gag gift last week, kinda funny that you got the exact same rod and did a video about it. Great video tho, cool to see it in use even if it’s not for its intended purpose.
Nice
And when you guys start welding the light went out all around you folks lol
This is one experience not to forget
*flips hood down*
“Watch your eyes”
*people across the street watching the puddle through the walls of the building*
Now instead of dimes it's "Stacking novelty sized buffalo head nickels."
I've done 450 amps with a motorised MIG (strapped the gun to an old BOC motorised burning machine) , that was bad enough 2 x EW13 lenses... still got flashed... awesome vid, guys!
This looks fun. Thats alot of current to be toying with
Oh hell yea, Imma need some time alone with that!
Ah reminds me of turning the amps up on buddys that are welding
I'm a sheetmetal mechanic and all we use are 3/32 rods for the most part. I can't even imagine holding a 3/4 rod 😂 It's like putting 1500 horsepower in a Miata hahaha
That looks like fun. Now you know what welding would be like if you were the size of a squirrel.
Judging by the spatter, I think a thousand amps is too hot.
Yeah, but "900 amps" isn't a really good clickbait.
Not hot enough
I actually looked up the data sheet on the rod. 1000 amps is the minimum on the sheet for 20mm (3/4") rods.
Is it just me or did it look like he was going too fast as well
I think an electrode running 10x the amperage of an average joe stick welding, can’t really be accurately judged by the same “principles” if you will..
Imagine doing a full length weld in one go with this and then the slag peels itself 👌
You should of did a quick shot of the electric meter and the owners face when he gets the electric bill LoL
Super cool guys thank you very much.
When your weld popcorn is literally the size of popcorn.
8:24 this effect requires gpu acceleration 🤣
I was looking for this comment lmao
A comment which proves your uninterest in the actual subject.
Super Kool. Sub arc is the way to go nowadays. Thanks for the video Brother. I think I got my eyes burnt!!!👍🤠
Going on the bucket list
That was insanely cool. Not sure I would have wanted to weld with it but cool just the same.
STOP - You know if you had the chance you'ld jump at it, just like the rest of us!!!
When your fitter gives you a huge gap 🤣
You’re making the power lines hot lol
now that looked fun!
Well, you can officially say no one has "stick welded" until they held that thing! Honestly, that looks more like some kind of orbital bombardment rod than a welding rod lol
That’s awesome I would love to see a cut and etch.
haha just think on what it would be like to air gouge with one this big lol
Has a nice tone to it! Thats crazy sick though unrealll
I have seen it all now. I have always wondered what was the biggest welding stick, and now I have seen it. I have myself had to use 1/4" 7018 rods before, but' I would love to try this one out for fun. I have no doubt that having to weld with these and the way they were having to hold it, would make you a big man at the end of the day. Thanks guy's for this video.
Wot? No cut and etch? Jody would have... 🤪 That'd be fun, cool video!
I'll ask my local welding store next time Im around for a 3/4" electrode. If they want to tell me something like this doesnt exist I'll point em to your vid.
@Frank deluca
Seriously? Bet they're delivered in a Brinks security truck!
That’s sick ! Love the channel !
I need this to repair my mailbox.
And I'm here, sitting and thinking, some guy somewhere did makes the welder and the electrodes at a reasonable price.
8:25 Well crap, my welder doesn't have GPU acceleration. Will this work with low resolution electrons?
He asked what the heck have they got and all I could think was what the heck are they wearing?!
Seriously though I’m glad this type of welding is getting more publicity.
That was crazy! Yes!