PAToyota
04-13-2005, 02:31 PM
Came across this site a couple months ago and have made a few posts, but figured that I would introduce myself.
Mainly a hobby welder, but at a fairly serious level. Took the certification exams for stick and MIG in all positions except overhead mainly just to prove to myself that I knew what I was doing.
I've been welding for over thirty years. My maternal grandfather had a farm and did his own welding for repairs, so got my lessons fairly young. But my first introduction to welding was a picture of my paternal great-grandfather welding with oxy-acetylene taken around 1918. The picture hung in my grandparents' house and the stark black & white print with the high contrast from the flame left a deep impression on a little boy's mind. I guess I just assumed that every family had some welders in it!
Did some little projects here and there through middle school, high school, and college. When I got out on my own after college I picked up some welding equipment and have been accumulating tools and doing projects ever since. Projects are pretty much whatever interests me – some ornamental work; fixtures, jigs, and equipment that I need; automotive work; and other odds and ends. Some of the larger things that I have built include a frame for a truck I’m working on, a bucket for my Bobcat, and the structural beams and columns for a 1500 s.f. workshop I put together for myself.
Mainly a hobby welder, but at a fairly serious level. Took the certification exams for stick and MIG in all positions except overhead mainly just to prove to myself that I knew what I was doing.
I've been welding for over thirty years. My maternal grandfather had a farm and did his own welding for repairs, so got my lessons fairly young. But my first introduction to welding was a picture of my paternal great-grandfather welding with oxy-acetylene taken around 1918. The picture hung in my grandparents' house and the stark black & white print with the high contrast from the flame left a deep impression on a little boy's mind. I guess I just assumed that every family had some welders in it!
Did some little projects here and there through middle school, high school, and college. When I got out on my own after college I picked up some welding equipment and have been accumulating tools and doing projects ever since. Projects are pretty much whatever interests me – some ornamental work; fixtures, jigs, and equipment that I need; automotive work; and other odds and ends. Some of the larger things that I have built include a frame for a truck I’m working on, a bucket for my Bobcat, and the structural beams and columns for a 1500 s.f. workshop I put together for myself.