On your base plate layout, if you don't have a tape measure, you can simply run a line from corner to corner creating an "X" on the plate. Then set your square tubing corners on the lines of the "X".

I’ve been welding on and off for all most 40 years!! Your videos are great and I like how you show your welds and just come right out and say,, That is a bad weld I just made and say why!… I’m very old school kind of welder and real don’t say.. I made a bad weld.. Just fix it like it never happened.. Thanks for showing that it happened.

Glad to see you home

Great job Anthony !

Great video. great tips and advice all ways enjoy them and all ways some think new learned.big respect to you 👍👍

Thats gotta be the most time consuming way to attach baseplates just sqaure 2 lines off the plate centre for top and side of the box section clamp a piece of angle to the top line and drop it on done

Way to give your buddy credit for being the better welder. With that attitude, you'll quickly be the better welder.

Our boy is getting some sponsorship love finally, so proud 👏

Nice video as always man I build lots of columns at the shop I think I need some of those fire ball squares.

Nice! I have some fireball squares as well. Awesome stuff.

Good video budrow!!! I like that welders cold snack sitting on your welder @ 6:19…keeps the lines straight !!!

good shit man that torch cut is better than pretty much everything i see at work (including my own cuts haha)

Useful info and vid thank you for making it Cheers from Nova Scotia

Again always learning thanks

Thumbs up for Fireball Tool. He's got a good KZfaq channel too.

Great video man, keep going!!🇺🇸

I also love my minion squares and monster squares for fabing almost anything, works great making beams and columns and knowing your shit is square without fucking around

Good evening everyone. Great vid brother. Vary informative.

Fireball makes some great stuff. I bet their bigger squares would work better for the heavier steel. I rarely use the small minion square. Just not enough surface area.

Yo Anthony, great to see ya.......hope the Montana work is coming along.....cheers, Paul

Lincoln Innershield NR-232 E71T-8 H16 Self Shielded Flux Core Carbon Steel Tubular Wire. We use this at work to weld columns as its faster than stick, however the tensile strength is greater with stick than the wire.

A section of angle iron works nice for the base plates if you don’t have a square

Bro about time been waiting for him to post

Digging the sponsors 🙏🫡

That old Miller is a great machine, just needs to be dialed in and of course more cfh. Also, it looks like contact tip is too short-it needs to be even with nozzle or back a hair. I have had to cut nozzles back more than once. Get a 15ft. gun-if it doesn't have one and play with the settings. Turn both heat and ws knobs to 3/4 then put 1 hand on ws while pulling trigger with other and start listening/adjusting speed till it sizzles.

Stick for the win!

"It helps to know that". I can Respect that. 👍

When l do columns l take off all the mill scale in the weld area, Dychem and scribe the lines. Hold the plate flush with one hand and line up and tack it on. Then, weld out opposite sides and move on to the next column. Interesting to see how you do yours young man!

Right on man just making that money 💰💰💰

Good stuff.

Love it man

good job

Nice job.

I use eagle arc 719 dual shield for welding structural steel. It is more expensive than stick welding but a lot faster and just as reliable. I have never been able to fully trust my bare wire mig welding in structural welding applications but dual shield is like stick welding if you lay in a good solid bead you can count on it.

Anthony, you’re getting porosity because 15cfm is only half of the minimum that you should be running. In breezy conditions, I’ll crank mine up to 40cfm with hard wire and as high as 60 with dual-shield.

Need to run a drop from your 220 in your laundry room if its fairly close. Gas is too expensive right now! Luckily mine backs up to my garage so I just popped a hole through and made a cap in cad and 3d printed it.

Ayyye welcome back

Do you mess with any Tig on pipe? Love the vids keep ‘‘em up bro 👍

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short circuit mig doesn’t like the heavy mill scale on thicker base plates. i would definitely grind that off before your layout. inspectors in california didn’t like us using mig for that anyways so we ran t8 flux core.

if you like doing flat just get some 90/10 and do spray transfer its slick, need 30+ cfh

Nice. Do you recommend a second pass on those welds? Just wondering because it was some thick steel.

for close-ups, have you tried pulling your camera further away from the object and zooming in the lens?

A little naughty trick my boss taught me to hide porosity which u probably shouldnt be doing is to keep ur voltage the same but judt turn ur wire speed down quite alot and weld over the porosity or pinholes. That way it wont build up the weld anymore than it is itll instead just fill in them aero bubbles

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How you doing Anthony hope you having a good day great video

Hey Anthony what made you go into welding and how did you start??

Are you back in Florida? Looks like some Spanish moss in the background. Aaaaand, you need to post more homie! Also, I was 69th like.🤘🏼

Loving the videos man. Question, since this is structural, is it coded? If it is did you decide the procedure or was it dictated by the plans?

1’ 1/4 angle works as well 🤙🥵

I like to use white out my guy. It doesn’t fade as quick as sharpie, you should try it out. The white out pens on Amazon work perfect.

if extra strength is required I would bevel the outside edge on square tube for more surface area and then run two more passes...some triangle supports too if needed...

Cup angle makes a huge difference with wind .. I’ve welded lots of outdoor tanks .. keep the cup close put a hand near it or something.. anything to break the wind a big

Thanks for the video! What tool do you recommend for accurately cutting the tube to length in the field?

More Montana videos!

Stop yelling at me 😭😂 Good work bud , take it easy!

Yo man what naics code did you use for mobile welding

How has that trailblazer been holding up?? I been thinking about getting one for structural jobs

i've never seen anyone use anything other than soapstone. (except on youtube) i have to take that back. erik uses the felt tipped steel markers and i have used them but i have also found that nothing with a felt tip lasts very long and if you happen to get the tip wet it's over. if they work for you then go for it. they are 7.00 dollars apiece and a stick of soapstone about a quarter.

Hi Anthony I'm a pipe welder in LA. How would I go about finding side work? Just want to make an extra few dollars. I have a regular job so just trying to add a little to the pot.

I'm about to be building 6 of these exactly how your doing. Customer also wants me to build footers to go into concrete also. Do you build those as well? And On your wire welding 15 cfm is alittle bit low IMO I typically run around 40+ unless I'm in a shop. give that a try next time and see how it does! Keep it up love you videos.

Like too score the plate with cutting disc

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What I would like to know is how you aquired that stair job? Whats the math thats involved? Lastly, did u consult with an engineer or architectect on the design of and layout of said stair? Thanks from a fellow metal sticker!!

Single pass on your structural stuff?

Never seen anyone mount their generator on the back like that. It's usually a compressor over there. I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience

Nothing pisses me off more than getting porosity with dual shield bc unlike regular hardwire it’s so hard to tell if you’re getting it until you get done with the weld and you’re like “fuckkkk🤬” 😂😂

Here is a trick I learned to protect my toes. Cut half way from one side and then cut from the other side and finish the cut in the middle. It will always fall straight down.

what helmet were your wearing?

I'd have to bevel that square tube per blue prints, you always measure off the holes of the base plate to center it.

im going to school for welding and right now im doing TIG overhead and I hate it I prefer stick welding

"We'll adjust that with a hammer". Sounds about right😉

get some gasless flux wire for the mig and just run a wire wheel over it. the ol cheap strong but dirty wire

Those 250X’s are no shit. I love mine. It will run a bead to the moon and back and not bat an eye.

Just asking why not 5/32 7018

Get some welding curtains to block the wind, and protect people from the arc rays. Like the pizza guy.

Name austin, just started my mobile fab buisness, and im having trouble getting work. Im handing out cards. Doing all the leg work i can. What am i missing?

While cutting plate you should have burned out a 4 inch square for post to pass thru for condensation reasons. Also i nevet saw you check for square

Turn up the gas also I think your stick out was the wrong distance part of the bed sounded good the rest of it sounded like crap

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Mark it in Sharpe scribe it then preheat till marker is gone cut it

where can i get a fireball speed square

Idk if you tried but maybe increasing the cf/m of gas might help with the wind?

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Try a 7024 next time jet rod for baseplate$

is it my imagination or is that first step about three inches lower than the second one. lol. that ain't going to fly anywhere but out in the middle of nowhere. i would delete the stair from the video and save the guy that is actually doing the work (i think MMA is only there to make a video) a potential problem. what's with the extra footings?

0:10 No paint on the feet of those columns.

I work indoors running .035 sold wire with 90/10 and I'm running 30 to 35 cfh. Is that too much? I make leak proof welds on a rotary all dang day..

Hey Rockstar, I have no tips for you! I am here for the entertainment and anything I can learn along the way!

Give it away

I get nervous when I see someone say "structural" and "easy" together. Never push. Pull. Doesn't matter what you are running, mig, stick, tig, always pull. You want good penetration. If you hold your stinger at a 45 degrree angle and are pulling the proper speed your welds will always be decent. You must always get your work area setup proper though. Even underwater commercial welding has to do this, but so do regular welders, (I would say regular welders have to worry about it even more, due to wind. Use weld curtains, build you some cheap square frames with weld curtains tied to them so you can bring them with you to jobs, all it takes is 4 pieces of metal, welded together to make a box then take some plastic, or burlap, and ziptie it to the square. Put 2 legs on it (H) shaped sign with legs if you are looking from above, build 3 or 4 of them to make a box around your welding area so you don't have to fight the wind. Spend a bit more money and build them out of aluminum to make them lighter. But yeah, the wind will screw your welds up, but so will pushing and not pulling. You want good penetration, and for structural welds, I always overkill the welds if there is no blueprint.

As I shake my head in shame for the less fortunate.he said it's windy out.in his garage.try welding 20 floors up 20 degrees.perfect weld no bitchin it's called real life.

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IPM is set too high and a tad on the volts as well….. oh and 20 CFH

this is the same building they were working on in another video. at the time i thought no way these guys pulled permits on the work they were doing. in florida, in a lot of the rural counties, there are lots of things done that would never pass inspection in the larger municipalities. try and do that in broward, wpb and so on and you will get tagged. of course they may have been permitted for that stair (very seriously doubt it) but i did notice that except for one quick flash there was nothing else in the video about it. so maybe the lead guy did not or the owner did not want it in the video. if you are an aspiring fabricator here is a bit of advice. get a set of plans that were accepted for a stair with platform and switchback and study them. learn about rise and run and the deviation allowed from one riser to the next. man, if those stringers don't look like some farmer did them nothing does.

Wrong transfer modes to transfer. Short circuit get lack of fusion. Change gas protection, there you can get spray arc... etc etc etc

that takes so much time just holding it up manually

pre heat 13 mm bs . get some Torch Cutting Roller Guide (wheels) and you just burnt his footpath and blue holes in it ps. and all those clamps go with the preheating .see Abcd Efg