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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Or you get a good hot one that goes down your neck and makes it all the way to your shorts. Sometimes it smells like the laundry is burning.
 
Jon, I was welding one night when it was cold and I had on long underwear, old pants and and old coat.
Finished a bead and saw smoke coming up from my waist. Looked and my coat was on fire. Took my hand and patted it out.
More smoke. Pulled my coat up and my pants were on fire. Patted it out. More smoke. My long underwear was on fire.
Dropped my pants and patted it out.
Finished the job and went to take a shower. Water hit me and felt a burning sensation. Yep, my Fruit of the Looms were burned through also.
Richard, who owns lots of old pants with little burn holes in them.
 
My worst time ever was when one Monday morning when I was installing an overhead conveyor track in a factory setting. I came in not feeling too good and was on a ladder about 20' in the air. I had forgotten my gloves and did not want to climb back down and get them,(mistake#1) so I decided since it was just one weld I would do it bare handed,(mistake#2). Struck the arc with the 7016 rod and was doing well with the vertical bead until I smelled something burning. The flux from the 7016 rod had dripped down and gone int the low top shoes (mistake#3). Hence the dilemma. My sock was burning and also beginning to get to my foot and here I was 20' in the air on a ladder, all I could was hang on and work till I got the sock stopped from burning. Needless to say my helper on the floor had a good laugh.
 
My worst was welding overhead I saw a reflection of a fire in my lense, but thought it was just a wrag or something burning behind me. That is til my face started to get warm. That's when I saw it was my folding money in my shirt pocket burning. I swatted it to put the fire out, that is when it burned me. I now have a nipple that looks like a racoon eye. Lol. I quit carrying my money in that pocket that day too.
 
Been there,done that. Depends on the fabric,but when slag goes down along the tongue of your boot,no socks are good enough to wait for anything.
 
I remember welding on a big hanger at the Fermi Nuclear power house in the '80's in Monroe, MI. and had to crawl way back in under this huge piece of metal and was welding with 7018 right above my waist while welding on my back while laying on the floor and the hot slag was dribbling down on my stomach. I had a lot of rod to go so I kept welding and it hurt. The scars from that finally disappeared a few years ago..
 
The one that stops you quick is when you hear one sizzling in your ear before you really feel it.
 
My wife was in line at the drugstore to buy me some burn ointment for a dingle berry that got in my boot and burned real bad. I told her that I had such a good bead going that I didn't want to stop. She repeated that story to the lady behind her in line, and as it happened her husband owned a welding shop. She got me a good job. Ellis
 
When it happens to me, I just let it burn. Then it is only one sore. If you dance around you will have burn spots all over your foot. I have many scars still showing.
 
In cases like that just wait a minute and it will burn all the way through or else it seems like it.
 
"Man, that burning smell followed me all the way into the kitchen. WHOA! Oh $#!+!".
 
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