Austin....Great job Brother!I Absolutely Love they Andy Videos!!!He is a dying breed and we need to soak up all that they have to share with us...younuns..lol I'm 51 this year and it was a bunch of Andy's that made me the Welder /Christian/Man/Husband /Father that I am today!! I Love and appreciate all of the Andy Hess's out their working hard and teaching the new generation that hard work is very very Rewarding!!!God Bless Andy Hess His Family and God Bless you Austin for the Great Content..
I'm 24 and I only have two years of field work, I did go to a trade/technical school for welding/structural and it was the best decision I ever made and what I mean by field work is, just factory welding. super easy, but pipe line welding is my dream and I hope one day I can do it, this work looks amazing/challenging ✌🏻🙋🏻♂️
Great video, people like Mr Andy are a great Asset, full of knowledge and experience and fun to be around. Daddy always said you don't get old being a fool. Good luck and stay safe.
MAN AUSTIN, YOU AND YOUR WIFE ARE A BLESSING. I KNOW YOU MUST BE A CHRISTIAN, YOU DON'T SAY IT A LOT, BUT BOTH YOUR LIVES SPEAK IT "LOUD AND CLEAR!!! I WELDED ALL OVER THE INDUSTRY "STICK, MIG & FCAW," FOR 20 YEARS. ALL THE WHILE, ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS BE A "PIPELINE WELDER!" I WAS PAYING OFF ALL MY BILLS, AND BUYING AND OUTFITTING , MY TRUCK FOR THE PIPE-LINE. ABOUT THE TIME I GET MY OPPORTUNITY, WITH "LOCAL 798," I GOT HURT "OFF-SHORE." NOW I TRY AND TELL ALL THE YOUNG BUCKS, "DON'T HOLD BACK, GO FOR YOUR DREAM!" ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD IN ALL YOUR WAYS, AND HE WILL DIRECT YOUR STEPS AND PROSPER ALL YOU SET YOUR HANDS TO!! I TRY NOT TO LOOK BACK, AND THINK THERE WERE TOO MANY TIMES "I COULD HAVE JUST WENT FOR THE GUT'S AND THE GLORY," INSTEAD OF PLAYING SAFE, AND THINKING, "LET ME MAKE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE "SAFETY MONEY," WHEN AN ORGANIZATION AS AWESOME AS "LOCAL 798," SAID "AYE BOY, COME ON!!" BUT AT LEAST NOW, ANOTHER YOUNG MAN, OR WOMAN, CAN MAKE USE OF MY EXPERIANCE!!
B you hit it on the head!tHAT'S WHAT i'M TRYING TO TEACH THIS NEW GENERATION OF LAZY ASSES...Just shut up and work! show me what you can do don't tell me///I dont wanna hear it!!!
@@FrostyA113 9 years military, SAS selection, overseas ex's. 3 Years semi-pro boxing, fights in front of hundreds of people, 14 years in construction as a foreman and management. Been to 25 countries, Lived in Nz and US. Athlete for 10 years. Not bad for how young I still am I see these guys in the industry all the time, they are my dads age. Trust me they spent all there time at the pub or blowing there money on crap. My dads brother who was his business partner who was making 10k a week now at 65 has nothing really to show for it. We get them onsite and they are very knowledgeable and skillful but they been in it for too long and have never tried to grow in there careers or as a person. Each to there own!
@@danch10 ah yes, shitting on people for doing what they love. Just because this dude didn't do what you think is the best doesn't mean that he's worth any less.
Truth be told mr Andy has probably forgotten more than most of us know. I could sit down all day and listen to him talk about his past will be missing mr.Andy
Its always funny to me how the new guys act. I remember feeling like I had to act a certain way. After awhile you realize that as long as you are respectable to other, work hard, and (very important) can take a joke and a ribbing from the other....well, then it can all be pretty enjoyable. I had been around crews for quite awhile when I realized one evening, after being ribbed on most of the day, that the guys were really just messing with me because they actually liked me, but also because I let them get to me sometimes. With that, here is a quick funny story. The next morning a few of the guys started in, and I just smiled and kept working. A little while later they hit me again....and the same happened. So one of the guys said “hey, whats up with you today, did you decide not get bothered?”....I said “no, not really....I just sold him last night”. A couple of the guys were trying to figure out what the heck I was talking about. Then one said “you sold what”. I said “my goat....so that way you cant find him”. They laughed, and never again did the guys get my goat and aggravate me 😂😂😂
That’s a blessing. Andy seems like he’s a great guy. To be doing that for 57 years. That’s just so amazing. That’s what keeps him going. Andy is true goals for myself
This has been one of my favorite videos that you have done. It's always nice to hear and so the older guys out working and sharing their experiences. Great video Austin!
Awesome. Just left job setin in with Jimmy Dodd carrying the line. 53 years in 798. Oldest workin journeyman on the row. The stories and just the privilege to be near him is everything
when JFK was killed i was sitting in a shopping cart in a supermarket my Mom was shopping in. the store manager came on the PA system and said the President had just been shot. my mom picked me up and left the cart loaded with food and everyone left the store to go home and watch the news. i remember the horse drawn caisson carrying the flag draped casket. it's one of my earliest memories i was 3 yrs 1 month old.
Nice to see the old guys still working. So many people nowadays want to retire young and "go enjoy the rest of their lives while they still can". Or so they say. Andy is out there showing the working man how it's done and still enjoying his life. He's the type of man that helped build this great country that we live in today. There are some younger guys coming up that have the same passion as Andy but they are hard to find these days.
I put a strip of hot pink spray paint or just paint the whole thing hot pink on all my tools so people dont take them. If they do its easy to see who stole you hot pink power bar 🤣
57yrs means u got in union late most retire from n 20 30/yrs on the pipe n r Boilermaker or Ironworker some come back n play on bigger jobs not me I'm done30yrs welding code not coming in n lol. N good luck An dy thanks for all the yrs Under the shield 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Never miss a chance to get to know the "old Cat" still out there workin', you'll always learn something and definitely get valuable perspective on life.
I worked with a couple of pipeline welders several years ago, ol boys were from Texas, and they were some of the best, hard working guys I worked with.
Awesome awesome videos sir!! I’ve been watching your videos for a few years now and look forward to get into the industry when I get out of the service. Hope I get the opportunity to be a helper for welders like y’all. Once again, Great content!
This is the closest I'll get to the pipeline. I had a chance at The Steamfitters Union but was already in welding (trade) school. I love your channel. From one tradesman to another thanks for sharing and teaching.
The knowledge Andy has can't be captured all at once. Hopefully you'll see him again soon. Glad that dude had the 1 new tire. Lol. Didn't think yall were going to the top. Good video, great people.
as a laborer on the pipeline i can agree with him....are job may suck but everyday when im on a job im just amazed and happy by the sight of pipe and what i see
If he was drinking age [21 in the 60s]add 21 to 56 years ago[1963] when Kennedy was murdered and you have a man that is 77 years old.Drinking ages changed during the vietnam era.I'd say your man is stretching it a little bit but I never believed in messing up a good story with truth.Tall tales make a fun day more fun.He don't look a day over 70.I heard a Lincoln SA 200-I bet it belongs to the older gentleman.
Well I didn't know about the drinking age, but I did think about how JFK was shot at noon, pretty early for a beer... LOL... He does look better than I feel, and I was born closer to when Bobby was shot.
Like that duct tape zipper. My dad did some taylor work with clothes back in the day. We always had good zippers on our coats. He would either fix them or cut them out and put a new one in. He did with clothes what you guys do with pipe. Thanks for the great video!
I'm two years younger then Andy and still working myself and love it! But I have to say, I don't know of anyone that has worked that many years in the same trade and still going. How Awesome is that! What and Hornor and a Privilege it must be for you Austin and all who worked around and with him. Right place at the right time. You Lucky Dog Austin!!!! Keep up the great work Austin, you're a go getter. Watch out you and Andy might wear the same size shoes! Ha ha! Many thanks!
PACK A PUNCH I’m from Green Bay WI, I’m looking for a job as a welders helper. If your interested in this field as well, let me know. We could car pool together.
I’m a welding student and love watching your videos because one day I dream to do what you do keep it up Ross !!! Your videos keep me motivated and hungry !
how taxing is it on the body? I'm very interested in this career path. Saying this as I woke up with a slight back paint from doing "office"/school work and I know pipeline isn't lofty by anymeans but it looks enjoyable to an extent.
Yes after several thousand pounds of rods. Basically same weld over and over and over. Have literally almost went to sleep making a weld from time to time. Retired, make my own designs, and have to figure new angles and new welds. Dont get sleepy now. Get tired, go home, drink cup of coffee, take shower, do somethin else. Go back tomorrow, if I feel like it.
Agree 9/11 was a high level psyop These two buy the shadow govts narrative, for that they are dumb fucks You're referring to WTC building 7 though the Poison Towers were not hit by planes that was CGI and green screen Poison Towers not Twin Towers because they were built in the 60's and full of asbestos and thus (maybe) vacant as asbestos causes cancer 2,996 died is the shadow govts narrative which is a false number for the 9/11 false flag operation / psyop, far less people died that day I don't respond to ad hominem attacks And I don't respond to govt trolls who get paid $$$ to post comments while they pretend to be a civilian
Reminds me of the time I worked with a 63 year old Cajun pipeliner. He didn’t give a shit about nothing. He was a hell of welder too. He also could talk a lot of bullshit and had many funny stories. People like Andy are hard to come buy. Humble dude!
Worked with him on 2 jobs, I'm a boom hand that likes to weld and he's one of the best I've ever seen in the short 10 years I've been pipelining. Hope he's doing well.
I've had the pleasure to weld with a older rig welder named Red Laman. He was 73yrs old at the time and that was back in 14.nice guy and full of info.on a side note,my remote burned up while we was on a job togeather and it was our last day.so he had a extra one on his truck.he let me have it and he told me to bring him some catfish. he was wanting some and he knew i had a frezzer full.I'll never forget it.i drove two hrs to his house to deliver that catfish and to shoot the shit about how the hogs was tearing up his yard.he since passed away.
Hi Ross, definitety the best vídeo I ever watched , I’m from Brasil and I’m a welder with 41 years of experience, this man inspired me to work for a another 15.
911 I was getting ready for work I just graduated high school I was mopping floors instead of welding was going to night school for welding actually at that time of my life
I have been around welders a long time . I am a pipe fitter and I still don't understand why welders need a helper to grind for them. Why can't they grind and buff own welds. I know many welders that do it outside of pipeline
My papa Brew isn't active but he is 60 years in 798.....there's pics from years and years from Alaska to Africa I wish he was in his right mind to hear some stories.... Good video
welding is boring, your environment and the people in it arent. basically the welding is tedious but youll always get jokers or dummies to laugh with and at, and you get to see shit and do shit most people wont ever get to see or do. plenty of different types of women too that wouldnt normally wouldnt see. (coming from a guy in a town in bum fk nowhere, you got a pretty mouf, egypt) hah
57 years welding pipe ? hes bean welding pipr as long as i bean alive , just think , some day your going o be andy , i hope thers aome one there to aprieate you the way we /you do him come on,,, thanks be good , be careful , and if you dont like that one grind it out do another one
Hey Austin if your in the market for a new pancake or thinking you will be soon I’ve found a great name probably the best I’ve used they are a company called Bledsoe welding hoods I use the square which is lighter than a sarges and their round is very light and all there hoods are pretty durable
As a 70 year-old, retired union pipe welder I can answer that question... NO! Pipe welding never gets old, welders do.
That's a fact!
Pat Obien if you don't mind brother just curious what Local Union you from? Asking with all respect.
Austin....Great job Brother!I Absolutely Love they Andy Videos!!!He is a dying breed and we need to soak up all that they have to share with us...younuns..lol I'm 51 this year and it was a bunch of Andy's that made me the Welder /Christian/Man/Husband /Father that I am today!! I Love and appreciate all of the Andy Hess's out their working hard and teaching the new generation that hard work is very very Rewarding!!!God Bless Andy Hess His Family and God Bless you Austin for the Great Content..
Poor guy, hopefully he can Wildcat on side or something.
I'm 24 and I only have two years of field work, I did go to a trade/technical school for welding/structural and it was the best decision I ever made and what I mean by field work is, just factory welding. super easy, but pipe line welding is my dream and I hope one day I can do it, this work looks amazing/challenging ✌🏻🙋🏻♂️
It's alot easier than it looks. Good luck 👍
Great video, people like Mr Andy are a great Asset, full of knowledge and experience and fun to be around. Daddy always said you don't get old being a fool. Good luck and stay safe.
That’s right! 👌😎
At 9:40 your helper either really has to take a leak, or it’s that cold that he needs to keep it movin! Hahaha
MAN AUSTIN, YOU AND YOUR WIFE ARE A BLESSING. I KNOW YOU MUST BE A CHRISTIAN, YOU DON'T SAY IT A LOT, BUT BOTH YOUR LIVES SPEAK IT "LOUD AND CLEAR!!! I WELDED ALL OVER THE INDUSTRY "STICK, MIG & FCAW," FOR 20 YEARS. ALL THE WHILE, ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS BE A "PIPELINE WELDER!" I WAS PAYING OFF ALL MY BILLS, AND BUYING AND OUTFITTING , MY TRUCK FOR THE PIPE-LINE. ABOUT THE TIME I GET MY OPPORTUNITY, WITH "LOCAL 798," I GOT HURT "OFF-SHORE." NOW I TRY AND TELL ALL THE YOUNG BUCKS, "DON'T HOLD BACK, GO FOR YOUR DREAM!" ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD IN ALL YOUR WAYS, AND HE WILL DIRECT YOUR STEPS AND PROSPER ALL YOU SET YOUR HANDS TO!! I TRY NOT TO LOOK BACK, AND THINK THERE WERE TOO MANY TIMES "I COULD HAVE JUST WENT FOR THE GUT'S AND THE GLORY," INSTEAD OF PLAYING SAFE, AND THINKING, "LET ME MAKE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE "SAFETY MONEY," WHEN AN ORGANIZATION AS AWESOME AS "LOCAL 798," SAID "AYE BOY, COME ON!!" BUT AT LEAST NOW, ANOTHER YOUNG MAN, OR WOMAN, CAN MAKE USE OF MY EXPERIANCE!!
I used to live about 20 minutes from ole Josh Johnson. I was in Tatum, Texas (i dont know him)
Good morning from new mexico
Good morning!
@@arosswelding good evening now boss hahahhaa
Seems like the majority of guys are from the south.... whoop whoop EAST TEXAS 👍🏼
No shit I was staying in that same campground for a while before they pulled our permits
Gage Schaefer why. What you mean
57 years of welding pipe and two words to some it up "Just Work "
B you hit it on the head!tHAT'S WHAT i'M TRYING TO TEACH THIS NEW GENERATION OF LAZY ASSES...Just shut up and work! show me what you can do don't tell me///I dont wanna hear it!!!
@@danch10 and what have you done with your life?
@@FrostyA113 9 years military, SAS selection, overseas ex's. 3 Years semi-pro boxing, fights in front of hundreds of people, 14 years in construction as a foreman and management. Been to 25 countries, Lived in Nz and US. Athlete for 10 years. Not bad for how young I still am
I see these guys in the industry all the time, they are my dads age. Trust me they spent all there time at the pub or blowing there money on crap. My dads brother who was his business partner who was making 10k a week now at 65 has nothing really to show for it.
We get them onsite and they are very knowledgeable and skillful but they been in it for too long and have never tried to grow in there careers or as a person. Each to there own!
DanHambo Good for you but shit if ur happy doing what you do might as well lol
@@danch10 ah yes, shitting on people for doing what they love. Just because this dude didn't do what you think is the best doesn't mean that he's worth any less.
What a great soul.
He’s retiring going to collect his monthly check and do something in his free time
Them boys are havin the time of their lives 🙂
13:10 . Answer to the title.👍
Truth be told mr Andy has probably forgotten more than most of us know. I could sit down all day and listen to him talk about his past will be missing mr.Andy
Great Andy!!!! He the man
Andy is a angle welding for you all!!! Get all sucked up
Rip andy
Its always funny to me how the new guys act. I remember feeling like I had to act a certain way. After awhile you realize that as long as you are respectable to other, work hard, and (very important) can take a joke and a ribbing from the other....well, then it can all be pretty enjoyable. I had been around crews for quite awhile when I realized one evening, after being ribbed on most of the day, that the guys were really just messing with me because they actually liked me, but also because I let them get to me sometimes.
With that, here is a quick funny story. The next morning a few of the guys started in, and I just smiled and kept working. A little while later they hit me again....and the same happened. So one of the guys said “hey, whats up with you today, did you decide not get bothered?”....I said “no, not really....I just sold him last night”. A couple of the guys were trying to figure out what the heck I was talking about. Then one said “you sold what”. I said “my goat....so that way you cant find him”. They laughed, and never again did the guys get my goat and aggravate me 😂😂😂
That’s a blessing. Andy seems like he’s a great guy. To be doing that for 57 years. That’s just so amazing. That’s what keeps him going. Andy is true goals for myself
I love how both jackets that we see Andy wearing are sporting duct tape
Almost all my welding attire has some form of duct tape on it lol I use things till they literally fall off
@@Iwontreadyourreply My jackets taped up too lol. And I've only been welding for about two months or so.
@@Iwontreadyourreply shit I don’t even weld and at least half of all my jackets got duck tape on em
This has been one of my favorite videos that you have done. It's always nice to hear and so the older guys out working and sharing their experiences. Great video Austin!
That’s awesome mate, appreciate you sharing it all! A podcast would be wicked bro I love chatting to old boys about work.
9/11/2001 - I just walked out of the gas chamber while in Boot Camp. That started my Marine Corps Career. GET SOME!!!
Thank you for your service
Thank you so much for your service. God Bless you
Make more like this video Austin, this was a very soothing video and the vibe is jive
Awesome. Just left job setin in with Jimmy Dodd carrying the line. 53 years in 798. Oldest workin journeyman on the row. The stories and just the privilege to be near him is everything
when JFK was killed i was sitting in a shopping cart in a supermarket my Mom was shopping in. the store manager came on the PA system and said the President had just been shot. my mom picked me up and left the cart loaded with food and everyone left the store to go home and watch the news. i remember the horse drawn caisson carrying the flag draped casket. it's one of my earliest memories i was 3 yrs 1 month old.
What dedication to welding, Andy is a national treasure. Much Respect to all the old timers ✌️😎👍
9-11-2001; WE WERE AT THE "HELI-PORT," FOURCHON, LA. WAITING TO BOARD, TO DO A "PIPE-WELDING JOB," OFF-SHORE.
I would work with Andy for free just for the experience if it was possible, love working with the old cats
Andy actually lives only 30 minutes north of me his grandson is in my votech welding class
Why in the world would his grandson take a welding class when he has a veteran first rate welder of 50 years in the family? Lol.
You need to get certain things done to be certified to be a welder and after being certified you make more money
Nice to see the old guys still working. So many people nowadays want to retire young and "go enjoy the rest of their lives while they still can". Or so they say. Andy is out there showing the working man how it's done and still enjoying his life. He's the type of man that helped build this great country that we live in today. There are some younger guys coming up that have the same passion as Andy but they are hard to find these days.
I put a strip of hot pink spray paint or just paint the whole thing hot pink on all my tools so people dont take them. If they do its easy to see who stole you hot pink power bar 🤣
57yrs means u got in union late most retire from n 20 30/yrs on the pipe n r Boilermaker or Ironworker some come back n play on bigger jobs not me I'm done30yrs welding code not coming in n lol. N good luck An dy thanks for all the yrs
Under the shield 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Never miss a chance to get to know the "old Cat" still out there workin', you'll always learn something and definitely get valuable perspective on life.
Welding is an ART, and WELDERS are ARTIST!!!
bamnibaum yea because apparently we draw everything 😂😂
Like to hear Andy on a podcast. 9/11 I was in college, on my way to class heard it on radio.
Every young man needs to have worked and learn from a man like this! I really enjoyed the video and I hope you and Andy get to work together again!
America ! Tradesmen Craftsman
I worked with a couple of pipeline welders several years ago, ol boys were from Texas, and they were some of the best, hard working guys I worked with.
Awesome awesome videos sir!! I’ve been watching your videos for a few years now and look forward to get into the industry when I get out of the service. Hope I get the opportunity to be a helper for welders like y’all. Once again, Great content!
This is the closest I'll get to the pipeline. I had a chance at The Steamfitters Union but was already in welding (trade) school. I love your channel. From one tradesman to another thanks for sharing and teaching.
You bet. Thank you for watching.
19:42 JEEZ that is one heck of an angle grinder....
The knowledge Andy has can't be captured all at once. Hopefully you'll see him again soon. Glad that dude had the 1 new tire. Lol. Didn't think yall were going to the top. Good video, great people.
I remember where I was when Wham broke up.
Thanks Austin so much for bringing this to us. Andy is truly a legend !
Nothing better then an old welders humor😂😂
Andy is the goat
as a laborer on the pipeline i can agree with him....are job may suck but everyday when im on a job im just amazed and happy by the sight of pipe and what i see
911 i was working at tuneup master in Oklahoma. Everyone wanted oil changes thinking oil price will go up
If he was drinking age [21 in the 60s]add 21 to 56 years ago[1963] when Kennedy was murdered and you have a man that is 77 years old.Drinking ages changed during the vietnam era.I'd say your man is stretching it a little bit but I never believed in messing up a good story with truth.Tall tales make a fun day more fun.He don't look a day over 70.I heard a Lincoln SA 200-I bet it belongs to the older gentleman.
That’s right! The 200 is his lol
Well I didn't know about the drinking age, but I did think about how JFK was shot at noon, pretty early for a beer... LOL... He does look better than I feel, and I was born closer to when Bobby was shot.
@@kwasg3 not really
Like that duct tape zipper. My dad did some taylor work with clothes back in the day. We always had good zippers on our coats. He would either fix them or cut them out and put a new one in. He did with clothes what you guys do with pipe. Thanks for the great video!
I'm two years younger then Andy and still working myself and love it! But I have to say, I don't know of anyone that has worked that many years in the same trade and still going. How Awesome is that! What and Hornor and a Privilege it must be for you Austin and all who worked around and with him. Right place at the right time. You Lucky Dog Austin!!!! Keep up the great work Austin, you're a go getter. Watch out you and Andy might wear the same size shoes! Ha ha! Many thanks!
That one guy from bearin Wisconsin I live just south of him and feel like there Is like all ways a guy from Wisconsin and any yt videos that I watch
PACK A PUNCH I’m from Green Bay WI, I’m looking for a job as a welders helper. If your interested in this field as well, let me know. We could car pool together.
Oil school teaching the new school. I can see you. Where raised to work hard and respect your elders. Keep it up young man.
You were lucky top work with a fine man like that. I wish him well and you Mr Austin Ross Esquire!
Hey Austin ! I wanna start welding pipeliners and am a helper at my warehouse and I can weld alright how can I start working like you ?
I’m a welding student and love watching your videos because one day I dream to do what you do keep it up Ross !!! Your videos keep me motivated and hungry !
Ask Andy what kind of advise he would give people who wants to get into welding
I love welding with my everlast welder. I think the thing I could go without is having to work through bad weather.
What a gift!
It’s very nice to see you so appreciative of having a peer and friend like him, Austin. 🙏🏼
🇨🇦 👨🏻🏭 🇺🇸
Am graduate on December from Tulsa welding school is there anyway I can be your helper
Can you make a video explaining how you got into pipeline and what made you want to start pipeline
9/11 I was in elementy school and the teachers put it on the tv and one if the teachers screeched
I’m a first generation pipeliner and would love to be on your future poscast
how taxing is it on the body? I'm very interested in this career path. Saying this as I woke up with a slight back paint from doing "office"/school work and I know pipeline isn't lofty by anymeans but it looks enjoyable to an extent.
Yes after several thousand pounds of rods. Basically same weld over and over and over. Have literally almost went to sleep making a weld from time to time. Retired, make my own designs, and have to figure new angles and new welds. Dont get sleepy now. Get tired, go home, drink cup of coffee, take shower, do somethin else. Go back tomorrow, if I feel like it.
Never seen a building collapse in on its self like 9/11, except for a controlled demolition.
Agree 9/11 was a high level psyop
These two buy the shadow govts narrative, for that they are dumb fucks
You're referring to WTC building 7
though the Poison Towers were not hit by planes that was CGI and green screen
Poison Towers not Twin Towers because they were built in the 60's and full of asbestos and thus (maybe) vacant as asbestos causes cancer
2,996 died is the shadow govts narrative which is a false number for the 9/11 false flag operation / psyop, far less people died that day
I don't respond to ad hominem attacks
And I don't respond to govt trolls who get paid $$$ to post comments while they pretend to be a civilian
Reminds me of the time I worked with a 63 year old Cajun pipeliner. He didn’t give a shit about nothing. He was a hell of welder too. He also could talk a lot of bullshit and had many funny stories. People like Andy are hard to come buy. Humble dude!
Ha ha I love it. You’re right they are hard to come by nowadays
Mr. Austin great video and Mr. Andy seems like a very humble and Very knowledgeable old timer this video had me emotional love it
Lookin forward to that podcast !!
Worked with him on 2 jobs, I'm a boom hand that likes to weld and he's one of the best I've ever seen in the short 10 years I've been pipelining. Hope he's doing well.
can you give me some advice brother
I've had the pleasure to weld with a older rig welder named Red Laman. He was 73yrs old at the time and that was back in 14.nice guy and full of info.on a side note,my remote burned up while we was on a job togeather and it was our last day.so he had a extra one on his truck.he let me have it and he told me to bring him some catfish. he was wanting some and he knew i had a frezzer full.I'll never forget it.i drove two hrs to his house to deliver that catfish and to shoot the shit about how the hogs was tearing up his yard.he since passed away.
Semper Fi Marine. May you chill and enjoy a brewskie
Hi Ross, definitety the best vídeo I ever watched , I’m from Brasil and I’m a welder with 41 years of experience, this man inspired me to work for a another 15.
Haha that’s awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed it! I enjoy meeting older welders and hearing their stories.
911 I was getting ready for work I just graduated high school I was mopping floors instead of welding was going to night school for welding actually at that time of my life
Im in night school right now
This TH-cam channel is truly UNIQUE. One of a kind 💯👀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Austin I love your videos I myself have been welding for50 years keep up the good work I am 73 I love your videos
I met a pipe welder up here in Alaska one time[true story].I said Whats your name?He says Dallas Houston.I said where you from?He says Texas!.
You men are solid, Good people.
Remember jfk , was in ftworth going ti school actual saw jfk and his wife come down belnap before he went to Dallas and was shot…76 years of age now…
Sorry I misunderstood I heard u say it was his last day but I guess that was last day with you. Sorry
I have been around welders a long time . I am a pipe fitter and I still don't understand why welders need a helper to grind for them. Why can't they grind and buff own welds. I know many welders that do it outside of pipeline
My papa Brew isn't active but he is 60 years in 798.....there's pics from years and years from Alaska to Africa I wish he was in his right mind to hear some stories.... Good video
welding is boring, your environment and the people in it arent. basically the welding is tedious but youll always get jokers or dummies to laugh with and at, and you get to see shit and do shit most people wont ever get to see or do. plenty of different types of women too that wouldnt normally wouldnt see. (coming from a guy in a town in bum fk nowhere, you got a pretty mouf, egypt) hah
57 years welding pipe ? hes bean welding pipr as long as i bean alive , just think , some day your going o be andy , i hope thers aome one there to aprieate you the way we /you do him come on,,, thanks be good , be careful , and if you dont like that one grind it out do another one
“ Can’t take 20 below no more “
🤣 oh Canada baby worked in -50 and +40 pipeliner from hell
Hahaha Mr Chris Owen driving the rig thats the same name as mine hahaha except I left the pipeline for Structual and I play guitar that is hilarious
Sorry 57 years of welding the years don't add up what you been welding since you was 10
Deer gawd your welding shield sweat band is made from 2x4's, thats a mans man welding shield.
I am going to vocational school in 4 days and i will be learning welding
Planning on moving to canada after i heard its a good country for welders
Man, I was raised in Carthage Texas. That’s crazy seeing someone from my hometown
I like that mans attitude he likes his job still wants to do it most of these younger generation or any of them don’t work and live off the government
Andy has it right. Took him 50 years to learn what he knows. Ain’t nothing you can learn from a book. Go work.
What is the name of that electronic mask that you are wearing, comrade, I am new to the subject of the welder
So I dont pipeline. Or welding. But whats the grinding for on the pipe so u can get a good connection for the welding?
Hey Austin if your in the market for a new pancake or thinking you will be soon I’ve found a great name probably the best I’ve used they are a company called Bledsoe welding hoods I use the square which is lighter than a sarges and their round is very light and all there hoods are pretty durable
Your so awesome Brother
How did he do that ? He held the rod against the pipe to Idle up the machine, then started the weld ..... anybody else see that ??
Bye Andy hope we see you again
wow charleston mo, bout 45 mins from where i am now. used to live bout 15 mins from it
So are the guys grinding down the roots etc apprentice pipe liners or just labourers?
My dad was on Snowshoe mountain West Virginia when 9-11 happened