I started pipelining at the age of 52 traveling cross country in a 2002 Chevy Welding truck pulling a very heavy 5th wheel trailer over a half million miles! I did this until I was 63 retiring in SW Colorado where Dennis Stiles decided to build an enormous barn and so our retired life is busy at Stiles Stables!
@Brad1237202 I have old footage, and now, being a RU-vid partner, they planned on canceling my channel in 30 days since I did not publish new material. However, I realized I have duplicate footage in some videos. Thanks for still being a fan. The barn work has been demanding these days...take care friend!
Not shitting on these guys but Im not sure what the allure is with the pipeline welders. They aren’t the best welders. They do they same weld over and over again. They should actually be better at it than they are. I have more respect for guys welding up leaks on water lines at 2:00am 8-10 feet under ground with a shoring box in the way laying in the mud.
I worked with 798 hands in the building trades and was impressed by very few of them....Most of them were primadonnas and cry babies who didn't want to get dirty....For the most part, I dreaded to see them coming...There are some good ones I'm sure but I think most of the good ones stay busy on pipeline work....Sorry to say it but that's just the fact of it...
I drove 2 hours south into PA to buy a PipePro 400 from a man I only know as 'Tim'. His welder has 798 stickers all over it,he stopped welding because his heart gave out way too early.
Local 798 doing what they do best. laying miles, and having reconciles with the X-ray man!🤘 stay safe out there on the firing line, from a Fort Smith AR local, hope to join the 798 once I get out of American welding labs
Amen brother! 🙏 we had a foreman that referred his pipeline to a rolling wheel and every spoke had their job to do...it works! Especially Union members busting butt out there!
Hello. I am writing through a translator. Tell me, what is going on with you? It is clear that you are pulling the pipeline, I do not understand such a number of cars. Where did all this come from? Do you work for an organization and this is its car? or do you work for yourself and are your personal cars ready for welding work? Does the organization give you a task and you go anywhere in your country to fulfill an order in your equipped cars? or how it happens with you. Very interesting. I am a welder, but in another country. We call it a watch. For example, on 30/30, you work for thirty days somewhere in another part of the country, and then you rest at home for thirty days. You can also work at home in enterprises, but the salary is less than shift work. Thanks
i been a 798 rig welder for over 20yrs so has my brother my dad died of a heart attack on a right a way still burning rods at age 65 while me an my brother were on same job!! my dad never was a union hand and all i will say is FUCK A UNION THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT YOUR MONEY!!
I was on the right of way as a filer. Many years ago. I filed pipe all day every day for weeks. Stand around all day playing quarters. And then right at quitting time the pipe shows up . Unload till two in the morning. They never let me in. No grinding no welding nothing. I will tell whoever is reading this, if for some reason someone doesn't like you your are screwed. You will not be part of their crew . It's that simple. It got to the point I drug up five miles from the nearest dirt road and twenty from the nearest town. I went back to masons tending and carpentry. So don't think your can walk up on a right of way and everyone is gonna shake your hand, it ain't like that. To any newbies welding is the easy part.
