You Can Find Life Lessons In Many Places – Even Under a Welding Hood
These pearls of welding and life wisdom was posted in our Water Cooler Tradesmen area by tradesmen “Appalachian Ironworks LLC” – Brian Leonard. You can find posts like this one and other conversations and information sharing in the Room Reserved for the Trades -HERE . If you are a tradesman let us know and we will get you signed up to post in the forum so you can join in.
Life lessons learned while looking through a shade #10 lens.
1-Welding: That bright spot is hot! don’t touch it till it cools, even then use gloves and be careful.
Life: Unlike what the lady in the Led Zeppelin song thinks, all that glitters is not gold.
2-Welding: Before you drop your hood and start running beads, get comfortable, in position, and dry run a practice bead.
Life: If you’re not comfortable with something, there’s probably a good reason. Test and consider the consequences of your actions. Look before you leap.
3-Welding: After you’ve dropped your hood and are running beads remember to breathe, and breathe easy, calmly and smoothly. This will go a long way to keeping the steady hand that will produce the smooth quality bead you’re looking for.
Life: Take the time to do things right. Don’t get excited when things aren’t right. Stay calm, stay cool there’ll be a solution.
Read the rest of the lessons – HERE
