🔥Welding the Heaviest Rust we Could Find 

I love how he sounds personally hurt over having to weld rust

“Stanky paint” licks random piece of greasy steel flake,”I better not taste that”. Love watching this guy. He’d definitely doing this video under protest lol

i repair dumpsters for a living, and let me tell you, welding through 2 layers of paint, a thick layer of trash grime, and with paper thin rusty steel means i might as well build them a new dumpster from scratch lol.

6011 is known as "Farmer's Rod" around these parts. Cow crap, rust, paint, all sorts of gunk, it'll hold it together and get you through the day!

“I better not taste that”

5:46: Starts welding. 7:53: Talks about the results. 10:59: 6011 block, welding. 12:59: 6011 results. 15:09: 332. 17:29: Discussion.

every day I work welding the cargo on the boats and that's the best you can find ... sometimes I find ships with almost a centimeter of rust before finding healthy metal. Every day I have to fight with rust, paint and water ... When I find a boat in good conditions, tears come to my eyes ... 😁

Most of the welding I do for the railroad is nasty rusted metals. This was very educational.

Bob is so laid back, i bet it takes a lot to make him mad but when you do lookout! He is a true master teacher!

This guy is hilarious and he's not even trying.

'High-end industrial rust....' lol

As someone who just got a welder and is using scrap yard finds, I appreciate this! Ventilation, standing back, patience... the importance of keeping the surface as clean as possible! It really helps!

He took a dead leaf off of that rusty steel and tasted it. Respect..

Just for kicks and giggles it would be interesting to see some joints with clean and identical joints with the rusty crusties. Then break them apart in the vise and see if there is noticeable real world difference. We all know the ideal conditions we shoot for but as you said sometimes you just got to do with what you got. Good video. Take care. Doug

"Hey guys. Watch me make a better weld on a disgusting surface than you can on a pristine surface."

This has helped me understand what problems I have are due to my ineptness and which ones are due to the old scrap I’ve been practicing on. Thanks

I hope the guys trying to get into shipyard welding are paying close attention to this. This is exactly what you are going to face on those ships and definitely all barges lol. Once again great video mr Bob.

"I'm gonna fix these holes that I created." That's me!

"Some kinda foliage" this dudes sense of humor cracks me up.

My dad is retired #63 iron worker in Chicago this was normally what he played with on daily basis- nasty rusty beams- great video!

This was excellent. I was welding some rusty old ship chain links for a mailbox. First time ever dealing with something like this. I am a weekend welder and getting those links together was a bitch. I had some nasty, ugly welds I had to clean-up with a grinder. The project was destined for a wildflower garden.

i just started working for a small company that repairs garbage dumpsters oily rusty material is all they weld im having more than a few problems adjusting to this so im thankfull you doing this

I could listen to Bob all day everyday. I appreciate everything about this man. Thank you!

Hi Bob, thanks for showing some "real world" welding. :) Just like I have done in the marine (barge) repair industry. Everything there is rusty from being in water for years. Mostly welding with 3/16" 6010 rods, 160A, vertical up and overhead. Mostly inside barge or towboat hulls where it's dark, hot, and uncomfortable, and they want water-tight welds. Holds towboats together when pushing thousands of tons of barges so it must make a strong weld.

“I think I tooted on camera” 🤣🤣🤣, sir, your about as real as the come. Love your videos !

I've learned more from this video than most welding videos I've watched so far. Why? Because you're showing real world welding. Repairing holes you broke through, how impurities affect the weld,.... It's really valuable seeing mistakes being done and how to fix/avoid them.

Did a lot of this on the Mississippi River repairing barges and working in a train car shop with dual shield. 3/16 6011 and .045 ultracore wire. Working with this crap will really make you appreciate good clean steel and will also make it easier for you.

You are the Doctor Phil of welding, Very educational and soothing to listen to.

"Texas tig" cracked me up, where I live we call it Tijuana tig and anyone who has done time in the "field" has done it. Love your videos.

Single funniest video Bob has done yet!!! His descriptions are hilarious!

Reminds me of 1960s&70s on old worn out logging equipment! I love it! !

Thank you so much for doing this bit on welding rust! Another application this comes in handy is in my line of work where you want to keep as much of the paint and original rusty patina in order to really give scrap metal sculptures an authentic old weathered look. Sometimes the different colors of old paint left on the metals are difficult to get through, but will leave a very unique look to the sculpture. Love your always informative and top notch videos and tips!!

When I had to weld on really dirty, rusted, painted stuff I would take the rod and get a arc started and pass it over the place to be welded fast with a long arc. It would not leave any weld metal but it would blast away some of the deeper crud. After blasting away most of the crap I would try and clean the rest away with the hammer and wire brush. Just a suggestion.

This video really hits home with me, I work in a cinder block plant that is 70+ years old and everything is either caked in cement rust old paint and various other nasty things that make welding incredibly difficult at times, though I try my best to always clean the metal I'm working on I dont always get that luxury, working in a production facility time is very of the essence not always giving me the time I wish I had to properly prep the metal, after a decade of welding through cruddy metal I too recommend 6011 and I found that 6013 helps when welding very thin rusty metal the best.

He makes it look easy as always. Great welder

I grew up welding oil field pipe making ranch fences with pipe top rail. It was all rusty, but 6011 always did the job. These fences are still solid 45 years later.

6011 on a simple ac buzzbox is my favorite for this senario

I couldn't stop watching after I picked up that he has expertice and humor. He taught me somethings and reminded me of many forgotten facts and tricks I had learned in the past welding many different projects and repairs on rusting and fouled up cruddy steel.

😲😍 he mentioned reverse polarity! I never hear straight/reverse polarity anymore😁 (-/+ electrode).

I love field repairs. Especially the ones with the two inch wide combo welds. You know what I'm talking about. When you have thirty years of tig, mig, stick and gas/clothes hanger-bailing gum and bubble wire stacked to the point the last five "repair" welds where just that. They where welding weld ten inches from the original metal. And now I get to play with it. Joy!

19:30 and after was the best. Even after 20 watches it's still comical.

I been welding over 30 years you are a good welder tack care

You got the certified tungsten dipper sticker on the banner, love it!!! Bob you’re the man sir!

Loved how happlily and enthusiastcally you presented this demonstration 🤣

Once again people ask and you deliver!! I learned something new! yes we can weld on nasty stuff and you taught me a better way to fix my burn through. Thank you Bob, you are a Bad Ass beyond belief!! great video 👍👍

I was the material prep man at a machine and welding shop after school and on weekends. As such I apprenticed welding stuff that should have been scraped, the two rod two step or Texas Tig was frequently required because much of the material being welded on was more thick scaly rust than good metal. Our shop did ornamental iron, structural and repairs on all sorts of things. The boss was the best Aluminum and Stainless Steel TIG welder around. A journeyman, very good welder and I spent about 15 hours in a sinking barge building duct seal boxes and welding them to the super structure of the barge around bulkheads where a sinker bobber log, very large log had came up up under the barge hull ripped the bottom hull and buckled the bulkhead. I was doing most of the cutting and fitting we were working in a very small area, very dark except reflection off the chromed skin of the tanks holding 5 million gallons of liquified propane. I was making $3.65/hr snd the journeyman $6.65 or $6.85(can’t remember for sure that was late 1973. I was in my senior year in high school. There were 4 other 2 man welding crews surveilling the job that walked off the job before starting after it was announced what was in in the tanks on the 3 or 4 massive tanks on the barge. A doubled sheet of canvas was strung under the barge to slow the influx of water snd several pumps from 5” to 3 “ were running continuously until the deck hands let all but 2 smaller pumps run out. Water went from about 5-6” dept yo mid calf deep in a Short order. I was ready to leave the barge when the 5 million gallons of liquified propane was announced, as I nervously put my cigarette out. The guy I was with said relax, you’ll never know it if it blows up, probably makes sense. We had as already worked 5 hours on another job before being sent to that job. What adventures compared to store clerks snd burger flippers, Vocational education school work program. Would do it again.

This channel is my favourite to get ready for my ranch welding tasks. Thanks so much, Mr. Bob for helping us get a handle on how to cope with what we need to do ;o)

I grew up welding on this type of material! For years I thought 6011 was the only rod available!

"Messed up", you know you did that on purpose to teach us how to repair holes when you forget to turn down your heat. Haha. Great videos. I watch them all.

I'm working on a job out here in Green River Wyoming and the plant will working at is a soda ash plant that produces baking soda and it is everywhere so the past couple days I've been welding with 7018 and have been frustrated out of my mind and ran out of that so I did find some 6010 and that has been day and night and this video has made me realize that 6010 is actually what I should be using and it is cutting through all this crap easily so thank you for this video

Thank You for doing this some never know the trouble it is to do a welding repair!

This is the typical type of material welders are expected to weld on out there in refineries, paper / pulp mills, ship yards, steel mills, mines, chemical plants, etc. All these industries have rust, oil, grease, paint, chemical deposits, etc. on most equipment and areas that need weld repairs. Wearing decent quality PPE is essential especially when it comes to the air we breathe. Great video that employs many good points for welders. Thank you for sharing your experience and techniques.

Rust welding Things people don’t like doing but still do

Excellent skill! I like this because the setting used are also explained. Most videos just show "How to" and not the settings used....One of the most important items for welding is the settings.

Another great video brother and I'm so glad you're using a vacuum and a mask. If I may suggest, please use a proper filtered mask and not a dust mask. As a welder with over 35 years as a pipeline/Industrial welder and now a UA Instructor who learned the hard way, the fumes that burn off the rods are pure poison (read the caution label on the rod boxes). Keep up the great work brother.

Great video! Your the first welder I know that admits their mistakes! Much respect!!Also that Texas tig welding is a good idea on some applications. I learned something also. Thanks!

Junk yard welding at it finest......love it

Here is a real video of what we deal with in the field. There just isn't always time to clean shit off properly. Real video. Thank you fellas

its kinda nice to see a pro blow a hole through his work. Makes me feel not so bad when I have to fill a few holes.

When i was in the coast guard (Canada), the 6011 was the go to rod for rusty and/or painted metal. Just grind away enough paint and rust to start the arc, and let the heat burn away any further impurities.

Intro should've been "Shop welder here showing yall why the field crew makes twice what I make as I whine the entire time"

This is what you never see someone do online and it's what we all have to do for El Cheap... The best learner video for sure! Especially with the rod explanations and flux types to make it happen. This is why my dad went out and bought enough 6011 and 6010 rods when I was first learning to weld when I was little. I couldn't even hold the amount of rods he'd bought. A lot of rust and oil on tractor implements like hay equipment, boxblades, and discs. I guess it made really me good at less than perfect welding conditions, but when I graduated to clean steel... I couldn't understand why I was having to haul a$$ the whole time! Now I don't go near it if I can help it without a grinder because it does take too long to get wrapped up! Still, I learned more than a few things from this video and the mill scale versus rust videos. I would much rather the rust without a grinder than mil scale without a grinder! Thanks 👍🏼

lmao that ending. Sparks coming from wrong end XD

Mr. Moffatt. Today i had my TIG classes and i struggled about buttweld (in my country its a PB position) on pipe. I was about to ragequit welding room and i haeard your voice inside my head "just walk the cup son". At the end of a day i pass my first module of certification and instructor started to teach me next level positions. Thanks for your advices and lessions on youtube.

Worst thing is underseal or bitumastic paint it wont grind or brush off,just spreads around and if it's old enough polishes to a bright black finish. It is also a good insulator so striking the arc is a job in it's own right. Best contaminant to weld is cement unless it's wet.

damn i love this guy's delivery/personality. what a unit.

Ah yes, the ancient Egyptian god of metalwork - Tootinoncamera! :)

I work in a steel mill, most of the welding we do is quick, on the spot repairs. Welding on super scaly heavily rusted metal is what we do 90% of the time. The 6010 is our best friend. It will burn through heavy rust, grease and multiple layers of paint. When i first started running the 6010 i didn’t like it but for heavy industrial maintenance its the cats meow, especially when you don’t have time to prep metal.

Best camera work yet. To bad it was on junk metal. Lol. Good job guys thanks for all your work. Bob is the man love watching this guy.

Sometimes I just listen to Bob's videos to go to sleep. Educational and therapeutic

This is a normal day at work nothing is clean in mills we deal with oil and grease and paint and god knows what a nice 5p root pass and finish with 7018

Firs time seeing your channel. It’s good to see a good welder get frustrated with bad steel. On my best day with good steel I can’t run as good a bead as you did here but I don’t get much practice. Thanks for being entertaining.

This is why I love arc welding!

Living in Hawaii we have a lot of rusted machines, 6011 works wonders for rusty , painted, oily metal. I only use 7018 for finish and 6011 for my root pass. Always arc welding don't like miging.

I better not taste that...lol! You're awesome Bob!

This was very reminiscent of years gone by fixing old farm machinery. Absolutely loved the last bit of "out takes". Thanks for a great video!

i seen a few welding videos over the days this was the first that i seen that used ventilation for safety

havnt stick welded since highschool,but this gave me memories, thanks for educating

This was my life at an asphalt plant. Usually I would clean it with a torch pass with a carborizing flame. Then burn it in. If it was structural I always capped with a 7018. I didn’t like “clean work” too much. It wasn’t as challenging.

sometimes you're just out in the field and the thing essential to your friend's good day is covered in rust and has broken after working perfectly for two decades

Should've smeared some mud on it. I don't remember the last time I saw clean metal in the logging woods

This makes me feel better. I weld really rusty stuff a lot and it makes nasty welds sometimes. Glad that a full blown badass welder like bob has issues too... I thought I was doing it wrong

now do the opposite. weld on clean metal with contaminated rods and filler metal. I am thinking a low hydrogen rod with a drop of sweat on one, a drop of water on one and a drop of oil on one. Maybe do the same to a cellulose rod and see the difference. you could put dried sweat or oil on tig filler and see what it does. Great video by the way. I appreciate you describing how the puddle acts different with the contamination. Gives me some clues when my welds act stupid.

i work for a landscape company and frequently have to weld trailers and equipment covered in rust, chemicals, and organic matter. i can never get any welds to look decent but after seeing bob's work here on some of this stuff i don't feel so bad!

I used to Bring trash bins back to life, worst case scenario. 6011 ac did the job. And a good strong squirl cage fan. Easy money

Was welding at a shipyard for years ...those fine specimens were a daily example of what to expect...there's alot of lessons to be learned from paint and rust that clean metal will never teach ...

Thanks Bob, I enjoyed seeing this, would be nice to see you clean off one side and just Ogre-weld the other so we can see how different the two are :)

High end industrial rust made me chuckle, it looks like a ny car to me 😊

Hey Bob could you do a video on welding galvanized material?

Ouch - grew up on the farm with stick welders using 6011 rods. I now realize I never even have tried to weld a clean piece of metal; now I know why my 89 yr old dad never had any use for a MIG welder!

I gotta wonder, how do you get those awesome closeups of the arc and puddle? That's some amazing camera work.

Thanks for the details. Learning from the low amp ac welding on dirt materials. Hooked up to a generator with a old 80's 200ampcraftsman 60amp plug puts out 49 volts ac at tip with a new30 amp plug running half power.. works great.

Stanky paint

hey bob, thanks for the video and the tips on different rods and situations. tool partner and I had to weld on a thickly painted shipping container ceiling last year and we kept burning through, did the same thing switched to thinner rod, lowered current, but what really did the trick for us was using electrode negative at the suggestion of a user on a welding forum. had to fix a few holes too, once we had it dialed in padding it around and then filling in worked for us as well. That paint was super thick we ground down what we could but just didnt have time to get it all, the surrounding paint burnt off and filled the whole container with smoke. Overhead in the middle of summer too. We left the truck running outside with AC blasting and had to switch off every 15 minutes or so.

Dealt with this junk in manure pump rooms all the time in high school working on the farm

I've never seen such contempt for dirty or corroded metal. Brilliant!

This is pretty much always my experience while welding since everything I weld is rusty, and I'm too lazy to clean it.

Thanks for the validation - I've been repairing the basement framing in a wicked-rusty old bus - and my welds weren't making me smile - but they're fine, by comparison, so I reckon I'm doin' alright.

And on today's RU-vid random recommandations at 3 A.M. :

This is very helpful, when it comes to repairs in-place on the farm. There's some spots where I just can't reach with a grinder or wire wheel of any sort, and often have a very short window I can work on it. Now I just need to learn to stick-weld vertically better.