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This isn't stick welding anymore, this is branch welding.

This may come in handy if you need to weld 2 freight ships together I guess.

Loved seeing this. In the mid 70s I worked for Sisco, a division of Hilti doing repair work in the steel mills. Used the same setup to repair slag pots that were about 15 feet in diameter, laid on their side. We would use torches to burn out the cracks and then fill the resulting gouges with however many rods it took. I think we welded at 750 amps. You would pull in a pallet to stand on and it would eventually catch fire and your boots would be smoking. Of course there was no fume extraction. We also did some diabolical thermite welding, recasting the bottoms of ingot molds that had burned through. Also wrapping ingot molds with two by eight foot sheets of half inch steel to reinforce them, bending it around with blow torches at the corners and a come along. Nailed them on with 45 caliber Hilti guns about 4 inches on center. Talk about loud when you had 3 or 4 guys going at it at the same time. Quite the experience. This was in NW Indiana. Republic and Inland if I remember correctly. Thanks for the great video and the great reminder.

Imagine getting that electrode stuck

It was a pleasure working with you again Adam! You're welcome back to the shop anytime you're in the area.

I don't think it is fair to call that a "puddle" more like a lake.

im in welding shop right now in highschool. we are currently on stick welding unit.... and let me say, stick welding is so far the funniest and most satisfying thing.

That’s actually a 1/16 7018 rod, and those guys are gnomes. 😂

Thanks for coming down to the shop Adam. It was great welding with you. Stop by anytime.

"today we'll be using a volcano to weld the San Andreas fault back together"

When I first saw that rod, I thought that it had to be a demo joke, like the oversized rocker in front of a restaurant. Great video

Why are people saying it's a bad weld? Of course it's gonna not be up to snuff, it's just guys messing with a stick that's meant for automation, never manual hand welding. Still cool to see a big ass electrode like that in action.

When you ask for a 10 pound box of rods they hand you one rod.

That's no welder. That's a handheld electric arc furnace.

My back and shoulders are still hurting from just watching,,,At 19 (1972) I passed certification in arc welding, 2 yrs later, in mig. I was the youngest apprentice out of IronWorkers Local 263 Ft. Worth TX. and spent 9 + in the trade. Today, I still love to weld, but my tig skills on alum are still to be desired (@@)! Jason has been along with Jody great help,,13 months away from 70,,,I better practice more,,,hehe! Thx guys, great video,,Bear.

I have never in my life seen a human being literally hand weld with one of these rods. We always used them on a machine and kept our distance, lol. That is nuts, I'm sharing this with some old coworkers.

in a welding class in the early 70s, they showed a film of welding the huge thick WW2 battleship plating. they used LONG huge electrodes that were supported on one end, creating a tripod effect. the electrodes were self feeding. As it got shorter, it just tilted further and further until it burned itself out. One person could supervise a bunch of these, setting up new rod when one used itself up. Probably rods like this one, but way longer.

Free after the Crocodile Dundee Films "That's not a welding rod - THAT is a welding rod!" :)

Developed by Weld Mold Company in the 1960's, the 3/4" X 36" coated electrode is in use primarily in the forging industry for the repair of forge tooling, using as much as 2,000 amps, depositing 60+ pounds per hour.

Imagine welding with this in OVERHEAD position.

I worked at a place where the owner purchased a used high amperage Westinghouse arc welding machine for the shop. I couldn’t understand why that machine came with two ground cables and a water cooled electrode holder. Now I know it was once used for large diameter welding electrodes.

Finally an Abom sized welding rod

Imagine sticking the rod by accident and having to get the damn grinder out just to get it off

Good LORD, I've welded for the better part of 30 years and have never seen a rod that big!! That's what she......never mind.

Nice editing suite with one of the most ridiculously oversized monitors ever. I do like that 1000A welding equipment. Any idea what the open circuit output voltage on the welder is? I'd guess it might still be fairly low like 80V despite the thickness of the flux coating on those rods.

Imagine sticking that rod

Imagine turning a beginner loose with those bad boys. Arrow heads are an understatement. Get stuck and you snatch the whole work off the table and swat the worker behind you with it.

Might need to be wearing an X-Ray apron for that one!!!

The fume extractor: finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary

Now I can weld my aircraft carrier to my Virginia class submarine.

"What's that whining noise?" "Oh, that's just the power meter spinning up."

My first job as a heavy equipment mechanic for Brown And Root was running a service truck in a Phillips refinery in Old Ocean Texas. We worked on everything from small vibratory sand packers to 4600 Manitowoc cranes and hundreds of welding machines. CBI ( Chicago Bridge and Iron ) was also there building sphere tanks for the expansion. I got called to go get one of their large welders started one day and they were welding and back gouging these sphere tanks at the tank farm. The foreman gave me a couple of welding rods that were not quite that big and some gouging rods just for souvenirs. They had a 1000 amp stud welder that had a 6-71 Detroit for power that was pretty cool. Also a gang of smaller stud welders that welded insulation hangers on. I hated damp foggy mornings because they had close to two hundred older Lincoln gasoline DC machines with magneto ignition and were a pain to get running. Later they replaced them with diesels and once power was in the units eight bank electrics were installed. Took a load off of our job.

Thanks. I was not sure how I was ever going to fix those rusty quarter panels on my car. 😆

This is usually my go-to for welding sheet metal together

Imagine sticking

That's impressive. I've made welds that size before, but I used twin 3/32 wire sub arc welding on big giant earth moving wheels. Them parts do get hot. Can't imagine that heat wearing leathers, like you did. Way cool video, thanks from an old retired welder.

This is Kimchi Welder who is uploading welding video in Canada. I have never seen such a large electrode!😍😍😍😍😍

That’s not a weld pool, it’s a weld lake!

The marvels of modern technology and Engineering, with a puddle the size of a small ocean. It's Beautiful.

I’ve been welding for 30+ years and have never seen a rod like that. Damn that’s a serious electrode.

Funny how things change. Years ago Red D Arc was a small Canadian company that only did business in Canada. They had a fellow named Henry Cole who was in charge of research and development. Henry was the guy who came up with the idea of using Lincoln generators attached to Kubota diesels. He tried a number of variants before hitting on the Kubota and he knew he had a winner. Reliable and fuel efficient the Red D Arc diesel welder soon started to rival Lincoln in sales in Canada. Henry wanted to start selling machines to the States but upper management kiboshed the idea. Seems they didn't want to upset Lincoln in their home base. So Henry being the guy he was hit on another tack to get machines into the US. He found a couple of rental outfits that had branches in the States that were willing to buy machines and then export them to their American operations. The Americans soon grew to love these machines but they could only rent them. A couple of users determined that they wanted to own machines instead of rent them so they found out where the machines came from and called to see if they could buy them direct from the manufacturer. Red D Arc's management had a long heart to heart with Henry when they figured out what he had done but they decided that they couldn't turn down the sales so Red D Arc started exporting to the US. Today Red D Arc has machines all over the place and they are considered one of the best around as seen here. One of their best portable machines is the three cylinder DX. It's about 600 pounds lighter than a full sized DC and you can easily carry one around with a 1/2 ton truck. Being a full AC rectified machine, it can also be used as a light plant and actually has a 200 volt single phase outlet on the panel. It truly blows the doors off of Lincoln's Ranger line which it is comparable to. As for Henry, well there was a falling out and he ended up working for AIr Liquide / Miller before he retired. He was a good man and I liked doing business with him.

1000 amps is insane. That's enough to instantly pass you on to the next life and the one after that.

My father worked in the Warren Mich Tank plank from 1973-1988 and he brought some rods home this big to show off a few times over those years. Apperantly the rods were used for welding down engine mounts and hull seam welds.

Instead of watching your puddle you watch your lake with this rod

As an iron worker, boilermaker and CWI for 40 years I promise you would be scarfing that crap back out lol. although I did get to run a DC 1000 with a auto scarfer back gouging the circ seams on 2" thick tanks for Hanford Nuclear.

11:10 "What did it feel like holding all that"? I ask my wife that same question all the time.😂

you've heard of stick welding? this is branch welding.

Not a welder but I am an engineer. I suspect reason that the weld is actually shallow and wide is **possibly** (assuming you're running AC) is because at 1000A you're experiencing skin effect. When you're using two grounds and two hot wires, the skin effect in the wires is reduced because the total skin volume is increased due to there being two wires. But in the actual plates being welded the current that high causes the electron flow (which heats the metal) to stick close to the surface without penetrating deeply, because the current that high creates its own magnetic fields, which induce eddy currents and squeeze electron flow towards the outer edges of the conductor. More on the physics of skin effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect

This isn’t stick welding, it’s log welding!! I’ll be honest, I just tapped on this video thinking it was gonna be a review of some BangGood “1000w super welder” from China but you were serious!! You earned my sub! Take care and God Bless! (And stay out of those fumes😱)

That puddle legitimately scares me

That’s not a weld puddle, that’s a fricking pond.

these rods are only 22 bucks. im ordering one for a home decoration. i weld for a living

huh......never seen a 3/4 in weld rod let alone someone weld with one, till now......and the lava that thing put out...wow........amazing

Now this is a clear view at the arc. Man that was tight.

The last time I saw one of these was in Cameron Iron Works in Houston Texas in 1982. They were used for repairing the 11,000 ton extrusion press dies. Ah yes .... memories!!

"Hey can you weld these two buildings together?" "Sure can, let me whip out my 1,000 amp welder"

Also good for any errant cracks in the Earth's crust.

It’s not a stick, it’s a spear. You don’t watch the puddle, you watch the ocean.

That's not "reading the weld puddle"... that's "reading the molten swimming pool."

That's not a weld puddle - that's a weld POND!

That is completely ridiculous. I want to play with it.

Galon in the welding pull, tremendous termo zone, huge welding machine. What for all this!? ;) Just fun.

Holy mackeral. That's like pouring molten metal out of a garden hose. I WANT one!

I used to run these flooding forge die's for over a decade. We mostly used 3/8" weld mold 525 rods. The main process we used was Eureka flux core wire N2, N3, tri-core 35, tri-core 450 and 650 gmaw w/ 92/8 on a flood arm. With that job metallurgy came in a step above standard welding procedures. Preheat, prep, peen, annealing was a larger part of the process than actually welding and you couldnt have any imperfections. We ran 1200 amp Miller machines.

6:46 the closest glimpse we have of hell

You don’t stack dimes you stack pancakes 😂

The welders your girlfriend tells you not to worry about 😂

Yeah that's ok for small welding jobs what ya got for the big jobs?

Jesus, that’s not a puddle. That’s oceanfront property.

Needing this kind of penetration to be perfect is the reason that submerged arc welding (SMAW) is a perfected process that remains obscure to welding beginners.

Oh yes, now i can finally weld my intergalactic destroyer to my death star

You can weld tectonic plates with this stuff

Imagine if the rod stuck 😳

That thing's not a welding rod, that's a welder's weapon of choice

Kinda want to see it done overhead just to see the chaos, but you'd need to find a robot. Or an intern.

10:22 I reached for my welding helmet, and it's 20 miles from here.

Weld beads are called puddles, but usually only the size of a large drop of water. This? Now this is a real puddle.

I pulled an old stick welder transformer out of the dust recently, it belonged to my late dad. got rid of the rusted case and made a new one of wood. It's only 130 Amp max and can handle 3.25mm max, but that is enough for me. I intend to build a racing kart.

thats one beast of a welder. 1000 amps @ 44 volts @ 100% duty cycle is impressive. no wonder it needs that generator, 480 volt input @ 100 amps! most shops dont have 100 amp pin and sleeve connectors for 480 volts

Хочется самому проорать голосом Доктора ГЛАЗААААААААА!!!!!!!!!

imagine using that thing and it sticks. You'd need a cut off wheel to get it off

The guy has that welding swelling eyes, you know from welding all day. Keep on rock'n guys.

Wow this is amazing.. During my training years I used to refurbish Jaw crusher mainframes some with deep wear on the 60mm plates needed to be filled and we only had MMA which was so slow eventhough we used 5mm rods... So I came up with a plan where I tacked 2 rods together side by side, turned up my Miller DC machine on high range and amazingly would be able to weld with them.. they would fuse at the centre and give out a single arc with double the deposit rate... But with a very fluid pool.. my colleagues tried and failed to maintain a stable arc... I was crowned champion at it as I produced consistent sound beads but never attempted to use on joint welding

That's a mighty big Rod you have there

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand

I don't imagine you are going to do much overhead welding with that rig.

Now lets see an overhead!! 😂😂

That's not a puddle, that's entire lake

When you need to weld a crack in the Death Star

Imagine running 3G and you get arc blow with that thing 🤣

14:33 made me absolutely lose it lmao

Weld puddle? More like lava flow.

Love the close up shots. By the way Chuck Norris uses a 3/4" welding rod to stir his coffee in the morning! ☕ ⚡ 🇺🇲

That puddle is the biggest puddle Ive ever seen that wasn't molten lava

Looks like what grandma used in the shipping yards during WWII

The electricity bill after 2 minutes of welding: $99999999

1000 amps running between your hands :O could you feel the induction? xD

Thanks man, really enjoy your tradesmanship. I actually take notes when I watch your content; it's so educational and I have referred back to it multiple times.

Next 3/4" overhead welding

Imagine getting this electrode stuck in the weld. It ain’t ever coming out