Thought I was the hotshot welding for 6 years until my lead handed me a grinder

Abby Martinez · 2026-05-06T13:45:04.464854+00:00

I was feathering edges wrong on every butt weld I did, just piling bead on top of bead. Last month my foreman on a tank job in Baton Rouge finally showed me the right way to blend it in one pass, and I felt like a total idiot. Anyone else have a basic skill they got away with faking too long?

andrew8543mo ago

Spent two years cleaning fish wrong until a deckhand showed me the trick in five minutes.

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wesleyc755mo ago

Brother I spent three years grinding flat when I could have just turned my wire speed down.

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dakotacraig5mo ago

Hold up, three years of grinding?

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