Pipeline is down hill. I dont know why homeboy is welding up hill. Dont be caught doing that, its not within code. Downhill root is drag. You need to step/whip it sometimes depending on the fit up (When the gap gets bigger from an uneven fit up) or to manipulate your rod when the flux burns uneven. I find myself stepping it a bit on the top part of the pipe at 12 o clock to 2 o clock cause it burns hotter up top and sometimes cant drag it cause its blowing through landing. If your fit up is on point you should be able to just drag it. After the 6010 root you jump to 8010 (Sometimes 7010) and from there I just stack dimes stepping it in from hot pass to fill and cap. You step it at top, around 3 o clock you pretty much weave side to side, than around 5 o clock you transition to stepping again. Keep burning, you'll see.
I prefer uphill that the way i was taught in college where I got schooled. Some places you were caught down hill you were sent down the road. Back in the day race played in this profession. White people got away with it. Us native American we were fired. Back in 2000 a white guy cheated on his test. It suppose to be 6" at 45° but he rolled it out put a rosebud to his root. His saying to blend in his root pass. Here the weld inspector QC passed him. After 5 x-ray fail they finally let him go. Here after he was fired his father in law was one of the head bosses. For us native the QC didn't like your vision weld without x-ray you were fired. He used to say I know it's going to fail. So it can be welded uphill don't judge.
If a pipeline was is a 6G all the time the pipeline would be a rollercoaster. If it was in 1GR, you’d still have to do a 5G at the end. Sadly, everyone tests on 6G for jobs when 5G is 100x more common and twice as hard due to gravity.
