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I wish that would pass ODOT's inspectors...well on second thought maybe not...
Here's a little welding I did a couple weeks ago. 30' of full penetration 7/8" web and 32" of full pen. 1-1/16" on the flanges. We were burning 3/16" 7018. The burns on my arms have almost healed now.

A guy welding overhead with big rod should wear a leather body suit (with air conditioning pumped in).!

The largest welding rod I can recall using many years ago was a 1/4" hard surfacing rod of which I don't recall the number. We used it to hard surface the rolls in a large gravel crusher. That would make the ole Lincoln howl.....

Dwight, I worked for a millwright company for 5 years before my current job and have replaced my share of sheaves and pulleys. I think your method was ingenious and could have used the idea many times. We'd soak it down with PB Blaster and/or WD40 and/or Silkroil, attach the puller (never really the right size it seemed),crank it down with an impact wrench, beat on the threaded part with a sledge hammer and tighten some more. If still stuck we'd heat the pulley and shaft and spray on more penetrating oil between heating cycles and more tightening of the puller. There was no sweeter sound than the creak it made when it finally came loose. We had to torch or saw quite a few off too.

The worst thing I ever had to remove was a Doris gearbox on top of a grain leg. The case only had two access holes, one each end and didn't split in two halves like a normal one. It wasn't holding oil so the farmer had pumped it full of grease to make it through harvest. We had to torch off the individual gears and bearings through the access holes while flaming globs of grease were showering down everywhere. With two of us standing on a 2'x4' platform 60' off the ground there was nowhere to hide.

Ryan, I have a ton of grain elevator and feed mill stories; legs, head drives, spouting, turn heads, scale decks, scale pits, drag augers, overhead conveyors, manlifts, grain dust, Class II Group G, and a few cat sized rats here and there.

If you and I ever sat down at a table (or on the Barge) and started talking welding related stuff, it could take awhile.

I hope that happens some time!

Of all the things I THINK I can do, welding is not one of them. I would like to try one day, though.

I'm not much of a welder but can stick stuff together and sometimes it stays.

Pipeline welder was to be my chosen profession prior to WW II.
I loved it - took me away from a small town in East Texas at the age of 16 and allowed me to discover the world.

Started as common labor, graaduated to welder's helper, went to welding school to qualify for work in shipyard, joined the army with "specialalty" classification, promoted to T Corporal after basic training and then to Sergeant - all before my 21st birthday...

Still can run a pretty good "bead"...

Burger,if your ever around Corsicana let me know,I always have something needs welded.You can play with my welder anytime

One of my welding instructors for Hobarts welding school once told me "if you forgot it, you never knew it" George, I'm in the office 90% of the time but jump at the opportunity weld every chance I get. There's something much more satisfying to running a bead and flicking the slag off with your glove than producing a production data or cashflow report.

Dwight, I'd love the the opportunity to chat on your barge. I've swung a hammer at more than my share of rats working in 3'x3' conveyor tunnels and have no doubt we'd both lose our voices before all the stories could be shared.