Share the STOKE of welding!

[joelyboyblue]

Guys lets get stoked! lets get amped! Tell about your experience and what you FREEKIN LOVE about welding! Lets build the stoke and passion and pride in what we do and spread that to other people. Tell about your experience, How many years doing what with what metal. And what you enjoy so much about it.
I'll start the thread out.
I had my first brush with welding doing oxy-acetylene in 8th grade shop. I didn't get in touch with it again for a long time then I got my cousin to teach me how to TIG. I fell in love with it. Since then I learned MIG and stick, I've worked at exotic metals forming in Washington. A few years later I took a TIG test and flunked it cuz I was out of practice. I'm getting back into it and saving my cash for an everlast.
What I love about welding is that you can build anything you want and what you make is gonna be around for a lifetime or longer. I love working with my hands and actually DOING and producing and contributing. I Also take pride in having a skill that sets me apart from all the mommas boys out there.

[geezer]

Happiness to me is the thought of every young fellow having or being able to afford a PA 200, if I had one back in the day's when I was too poor to even pay attention, it would have made my life easier. Welding is not everything but it goes a long ways towards that goal. It is my impression that young people who have an interest in creating something, generally turnout all right in later life.

[jojobead]

the company i used to work 4 made the ac units 4 the twin towers.when they dug them out they still held freon.America can still build quility stuff, just the kids of to day think people that do our kind of work are dumb with there butt cracks sticking out.i see it every week when in this eco. thy last a week, to hot or dirty+math and chemistry is no fun.

[Steve]

Guys lets get stoked! lets get amped! Tell about your experience and what you FREEKIN LOVE about welding! Lets build the stoke and passion and pride in what we do and spread that to other people. Tell about your experience, How many years doing what with what metal. And what you enjoy so much about it.
I'll start the thread out.
I had my first brush with welding doing oxy-acetylene in 8th grade shop. I didn't get in touch with it again for a long time then I got my cousin to teach me how to TIG. I fell in love with it. Since then I learned MIG and stick, I've worked at exotic metals forming in Washington. A few years later I took a TIG test and flunked it cuz I was out of practice. I'm getting back into it and saving my cash for an everlast.
What I love about welding is that you can build anything you want and what you make is gonna be around for a lifetime or longer. I love working with my hands and actually DOING and producing and contributing. I Also take pride in having a skill that sets me apart from all the mommas boys out there.

Having the ability to weld almost anything is a useful thing to know especially when the economy gets bad as you can fix things and make really cool things that others just cannot do.

My gas welding experience really helped me with tig welding and I took to it right away. Now that I have the Everlast Powertig 250EX, I can weld just about anything that I need to. I also own a gas torch and a mig machine so I have almost all the bases covered. I also have the Everlast Powerplasma 50 and there is very little I cannot do as far as fabrication goes. I only wish I had a lathe and mill but those will be coming soon.

Yes, I too enjoy making really neat things that can be used. Working with my hands.

I build bicycles, have built a few motorcycles, all kinds of things that others just cannot do. I can fix rust on cars, fix broken tractors and lawn mowers. Fixed even a bulldozer. I even built my own weight lifting equipment.