Ah A good Ol’A-Frame I have had and used one for years. I have unloaded steel, equipment, I’ve pulled engines out of trucks with it, held my tractor up when I had to break it apart for the clutch replacement, skinned deer, hogs, and a few years back a steer while hanging from it, my kids used it to hang a tire swing from for a while and dry docked a 21’ Searay with it, you name it I have used the fire out of my A-Frame and it actually belonged to my Pap he made it long before I was thought of and it will probably outlast me too !!!
I’m impressed at your cutting hand. I see so many rush the torch so that they can hurry up and grind. Anyone in the trade will see the skill set and understand that you take pride. I have little concern that you will ever have to look very hard for work with those ethics. I’m proud to see this. Good luck and please keep up this type of work, It’ll do the younger generation good to see this.
I love your videos Austin, im a Service engineer in the UK so i have all kinds of broken stuff to weld up, from BZP steel to 316 stainless something different everyday but i just love how chilled out yet informative your videos are ! keep it up mister
Once you get first saddle fit perfect get some gasket material and make a template. Makes layout on the rest of saddles easier and quicker. Plus you will always have template for future use
Austin you really do a great job at everything you do. You truly seem like a great guy to work with. I welded in the oil field in South Texas. I was raised in Alice Texas then in 1980 when the drilling stopped I left town and never went back. Became a welding Forman building power plants. I'm 63 years of age now so you hadn't started yet. Would have enjoyed working with you buddy. Love "ALL" your videos. It's what I do every night. Take care buddy!
Another really good video. That was a good teaching job on marking the saddle. Seems like I always learn a different way of doing things anytime I watch one of your videos. Young pups teaching old dogs new tricks!! Keep up the good work and be safe.
Aaron, I'm a loftsman and former structural fitter. There is a way simpler method to divide your 8 5/8 pipe pipe into quadrants. Get a framing square, put it against the pipe, put a level on top of it the framing square, mark the top at 4 5/16 and the side at 4 5/16, half of 8 5/8. Then flip the square around and mark the other side. Also if you going be doing more structural pipe you need to make some steel horses so you can roll. that pipe while cutting. You want to bevel and cur your pipe at the same time.
Really appreciate you taking the time to explain how to use the blue book never knew how to saddle pipe until this video looking forward to future vids love all the shared knowledge keep up the good work!
14:05 Great segment. I don't have a blue book. But I don't cut pipe or tubing much over 1.5" and nowadays that's rare. But now I know how you pipeline guys do it. Thanks for sharing the layout technique.
Thanks Austin for sharing with us today ! Really enjoyed watching your work today, you enjoyed yourself as much as I enjoyed watching you. Keep up the good work and videos. I’ll catch you next week for more of this project. Fred. 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
Nothing wrong with using a A frame, have use one plenty of times. But my friend and I went to a scarp yard where they pull stuff out of factories and we found a bunch of roller conveyors we bought some and we used them now to unload stuff and roll into the shop still use the Aframe to get it on the roller. Really like going to the scrap yard to pick up steel. Been getting stuff together to build another 24’x30’ building. People really would be surprised what factories get rid of in the steel line. Another great video.
@@peetky8645 yes it by weight. You pay whatever scarp prices is. Some time after getting to know them you can say I give you this for this and they will take it. But I do know here I was told Friday that steel is going up again. The sheets on a metal building Friday was 2.35 a linear foot today it is 2.75 linear foot.
@@totalcardetailing2022 thanks for the info. yeah, inflation is gonna be miserable for all but the super-rich. i was in grade school in the 70's for stagflation. i remember even as a kid how scary it was...could have a replay soon....stay safe out there
Enjoyed the video here in Arkansas. You have a great speaking voice along with some unique comical voices. In my opinion this video exceeded your other videos relative to instructing. Keep it up!
In school my teacher showed me to use a receipt paper to wrap around the pipe fold it 4 times and cut the corners. That will give you all your points. Thats an easy way. Glad to have learned the way you do it.
Always like your videos. If you can, talk to a flatbed semi driver about how to secure a load. Some of that pipe had practically nothing holding it on the trailer. I don’t want to see anyone get hurt. We don’t know what we haven’t been taught yet. Keep up the good work! Lastly get yourself a deckover trailer. Or, make some pipe stands that attach to the trailer to keep the pipe above the fenders for easier loading.
Having a hoist to lift things is a big help. I built one to go into a receiver hitch I put through my bumper, I put off to side so it wouldn't interfere with the tailgate. I installed 2 trailer jacks to a piece of c-channel to level it. Yours is much taller, like you, I just used what I have around. Hope to see how this turns out.
Wow, I love all ur equipment for welding, I am learning a lot from ur skills, but need to do with my hand often than watching, sadly I am struggling to get a welding job in the UK for 6 years, because of my disability for health and Safety is the cause of the problems stop me from getting a job and also they kept saying I lack experience even I have 7 welding qualifications. Thanks for sharing.
Love the videos man! Broken portaband blade works great for connecting saddle lines, a lot easier to deal with and hold on too! Looks like you get her whooped with a wrap around pretty good though!
When you are laying out by yourself, get a variety bag of squeeze clamps from the hardware store with different sizes to help hold the ends of your wrap around,because all you have to do is hold thecenter as you draw your chalk line.
Can you do a video on your RAM welding truck, now that you have had if for some time and been using it a lot. tell us your opinion on it and the good and bad with it. Thanks
Hey man love your stuff. You're forgetting the formula for a circumference is 2(3.14)radius. Your circumference on the pipe would end up 27 3/32". Keep it coming!
Receipt paper works good for the saddle. Wrap it around your pipe, overlap it tight and cut it even where the paper overlaps, then fold it until you get 8 peices, then while it’s all folded up cut one corner off then wrap it back around the pipe tightly and then mark each v that’s cut.
Thanks for showing and explaining your little jin pole setup. Been racking my brain trying to come up with something but didn't want gin poles. Kinda had this as an idea but wasn't to sure how it would work.
Take some sheet metal (or whatever)and wrap it around the 8” then trace out the cope and cut it. Then you have a template you can slide over the pipe and trace it out. Saves a little time with measuring next time. Make them for any pipe and hang it on the wall. Great for at the shop projects of course.
Maybe much easier but I think you both missed the point of this video of teaching people how to layout a saddle. Having templates are great but you only have so much room in a truck, so when you're working in the field it is nice to know how to layout all your fit ups cause the templates will not always be there.
I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work. I am a structural welder for the live entertainment and rigging industry, we glue metal and aluminum together too, just a completely different environment and industry. Cheers
I used to always use the Pipefitter's Manual, until I found a set of templates at a welding shop. I think I paid $25 for them. Best thing since sliced bread.
Its so refreshing to see a fellow tradesman clean the cutting tip prior to lighting the torch. Too often, I see these guys at work, just grab any old torch set, give the cutting tip a quick rub on his pant leg, light her up, and make the most worst and most God awful cut you'd be sure a beaver did it.
I call it a pissed off rabid beaver with PMS. How about the idiots that think they are good with a torch and when they finish a cut they try to tap the cutoff off with the TIP!!!! With the fire still lit. We go thru a lot of torch tips.
My favorite adult toy store, besides harbor freight, is j&i manufacturing in madill Oklahoma. They've got one of everything and two of everything else. No other place on the planet can you buy 10 lbs of welding rods for under twenty bucks, but you can at j&i. There welding rods, by the way, are the best I've ever used.
Good job laying out your saddle and cutting. You did make a template after you showed them how to lay out 8"I had a set of teemplents from 2"/18" especially if you gonna cut more than one but ill coment on the finish product
Most that I have seen have two poles, and two support cables/chains. The support cables attach clear up at the head. With the distance from the support chains to the end of his one leg gin pole, he is putting way too much stress on the pipe, in my opinion. Gonna get worse when it gets longer.
I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the build. BTW Austin, I learned something new today. 'Tis better to ask forgiveness, than hope for permission. This especially applies to new shotgun purchases! LOL. Cheers! Whipple
I absolutely love this channel! I really miss the pipeline videos of on the road. Hopefully y’all pipe liners are back to working good again soon. I’m a coal miner so I know the political pains of the industry
@@arosswelding I don’t know how handy you are but a 90’s bobcat gehl mustang aren’t near as fancy as those pilot control track loaders but work well. Plus they are fairly straight forward to work on and parts new and used are easy to come by. Love the channel! Keep posting!
Awesome iv somewhat learned how to cut a Satle in pipe I need to buy your blue book to have just in case I’m a tree cutter arborist by trade but ya never no when ya gonna fab something up
I’ve got a stack of metal on some heavy duty saw horses...the saw horses are about 9’ long, and weight 600lbs. Welded up on some 4x4 tube steel! Love having my stack of spare parts!
Back in 70’s we layout reducers, concentric an eccentric an center punch all the lines. All this was done on stainless steel pipe when plasma cutters weren’t invented yet, so we used arc air an followed the punch marks sometime’s🤪
Hey Austin. I’m a 17y/o and I plan to buy a SA200 when I turn 18 in a few weeks. I’m trying to make some money to put myself through school as I want to be a commercial diver. I wanted to ask for some advice if I should buy a machine and try to get pipe gigs since they bring in more money. I can land fabrication jobs pretty easily, but with me being as young as I am and certifications provided by my high school, if those even count, would it even be possible for me to land a pipe gig? My high school doesn’t offer pipe certifications but we do weld in the 5G and 6G positions and I am pretty good at it. Also I have a small clientele list of businesses I do fabrication work for consistently. Would a reference from a fabrication job be worth anything when I try to land a pipe gig? Thanks I’m advance, Jordan.
After fitting up that 8” saddle, you noticed how it sat up a hair on the ears. If you take the torch to the inside and kind of do a bevel on the inside, it should sit down on that fit up! Grinder works too!
Idea to eliminate one step. Mark out your #1 measurements on the angle iron straight edge . Line up on both origin points and mark line. Could also use automatic center punch instead of chalk.
I have done this before but you do know there is a math formula that allows you to draw this on paper first and you can just cut out the paper pattern and wrap it on the pipe. Its def worth learning to make patterns. I had sheet metal I kept laying around just to make patterns with when paper wouldn't hold up long enough.
Ah A good Ol’A-Frame I have had and used one for years. I have unloaded steel, equipment, I’ve pulled engines out of trucks with it, held my tractor up when I had to break it apart for the clutch replacement, skinned deer, hogs, and a few years back a steer while hanging from it, my kids used it to hang a tire swing from for a while and dry docked a 21’ Searay with it, you name it I have used the fire out of my A-Frame and it actually belonged to my Pap he made it long before I was thought of and it will probably outlast me too !!!
I’m impressed at your cutting hand. I see so many rush the torch so that they can hurry up and grind. Anyone in the trade will see the skill set and understand that you take pride. I have little concern that you will ever have to look very hard for work with those ethics. I’m proud to see this. Good luck and please keep up this type of work, It’ll do the younger generation good to see this.
This is a prime example of a skill set that transends education. Adapibilty for all occasions
"handier than a pocket on a shirt" is a new one to me, made me chuckle.
He should put it onto a shirt with a pocket
Damn true though
Yes!! I stopped and hit the rewind!! SUBSCRIBED!!! 'Nuff said
And in turn 1 we have the hand off and not just any hand off it’s a pipe hand off, what a transition bob! And the crowd goes wild!!! Ahhhhhh
Watching them load the pipe was pretty cool. I love watching people who know _exactly_ what to do.
I love your videos Austin, im a Service engineer in the UK so i have all kinds of broken stuff to weld up, from BZP steel to 316 stainless something different everyday but i just love how chilled out yet informative your videos are ! keep it up mister
Once you get first saddle fit perfect get some gasket material and make a template. Makes layout on the rest of saddles easier and quicker. Plus you will always have template for future use
I keep a pack of manila file folders around, if they're too short just tape a few together...
This guys the pipe master. And a one man show. Very impressed with these videos!
Austin you really do a great job at everything you do. You truly seem like a great guy to work with. I welded in the oil field in South Texas. I was raised in Alice Texas then in 1980 when the drilling stopped I left town and never went back. Became a welding Forman building power plants. I'm 63 years of age now so you hadn't started yet. Would have enjoyed working with you buddy.
Love "ALL" your videos.
It's what I do every night.
Take care buddy!
I always end up finding something in the Closeout Pile I just know I'll use. I eventually do.
Another really good video. That was a good teaching job on marking the saddle. Seems like I always learn a different way of doing things anytime I watch one of your videos. Young pups teaching old dogs new tricks!! Keep up the good work and be safe.
You are a jam up welder & fitter plus a all around awesome guy love to watch you channel
Aaron, I'm a loftsman and former structural fitter. There is a way simpler method to divide your 8 5/8 pipe pipe into quadrants. Get a framing square, put it against the pipe, put a level on top of it the framing square, mark the top at 4 5/16 and the side at 4 5/16, half of 8 5/8. Then flip the square around and mark the other side.
Also if you going be doing more structural pipe you need to make some steel horses so you can roll. that pipe while cutting. You want to bevel and cur your pipe at the same time.
Your videos are a great perspective in the real world of welding. I start welding school tomorrow!
Really appreciate you taking the time to explain how to use the blue book never knew how to saddle pipe until this video looking forward to future vids love all the shared knowledge keep up the good work!
14:05 Great segment. I don't have a blue book. But I don't cut pipe or tubing much over 1.5" and nowadays that's rare. But now I know how you pipeline guys do it. Thanks for sharing the layout technique.
Thanks Austin for sharing with us today ! Really enjoyed watching your work today, you enjoyed yourself as much as I enjoyed watching you. Keep up the good work and videos. I’ll catch you next week for more of this project. Fred. 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
It’s my dream to also have this done to my farm, you can say it’s my pipe dream
Nothing wrong with using a A frame, have use one plenty of times. But my friend and I went to a scarp yard where they pull stuff out of factories and we found a bunch of roller conveyors we bought some and we used them now to unload stuff and roll into the shop still use the Aframe to get it on the roller. Really like going to the scrap yard to pick up steel. Been getting stuff together to build another 24’x30’ building. People really would be surprised what factories get rid of in the steel line. Another great video.
interesting....how do they charge? by weight? what percentage of new price does scrap steel come to? thanks for the tip
@@peetky8645 yes it by weight. You pay whatever scarp prices is. Some time after getting to know them you can say I give you this for this and they will take it. But I do know here I was told Friday that steel is going up again. The sheets on a metal building Friday was 2.35 a linear foot today it is 2.75 linear foot.
@@totalcardetailing2022 thanks for the info. yeah, inflation is gonna be miserable for all but the super-rich. i was in grade school in the 70's for stagflation. i remember even as a kid how scary it was...could have a replay soon....stay safe out there
And.....thank god you still have work coming in. I usually do everything on location, mainly because i cant weld outside the apartment complex 😅😅😅
Enjoyed the video here in Arkansas. You have a great speaking voice along with some unique comical voices. In my opinion this video exceeded your other videos relative to instructing. Keep it up!
Howdy from Sacramento! Very cool and informative. I had no idea about the layout of such things as pipe saddles, but now I do. Thanks for sharing!
Nice project looking forward to the rest!!! 👍🇺🇸
definetly the best video yet you are doing what you were born for. Looking forward to next friday
I built two of those last year. One out of 6" sch. 10 and one out of 6" sch. 40 with 4" sch. 40 braces. Keep up the great videos sir.
You are so so good how you show us how to do all this stuff thank you
Looks just like you knew what you were doing!! Nice fit. Can't wait to see how this goes.
It’s really cool to see how passionate you are about your work. I wish I felt the same about what I do for work
In school my teacher showed me to use a receipt paper to wrap around the pipe fold it 4 times and cut the corners. That will give you all your points. Thats an easy way. Glad to have learned the way you do it.
3 folds not 4. Sorry about that.
Always like your videos. If you can, talk to a flatbed semi driver about how to secure a load. Some of that pipe had practically nothing holding it on the trailer. I don’t want to see anyone get hurt. We don’t know what we haven’t been taught yet.
Keep up the good work!
Lastly get yourself a deckover trailer. Or, make some pipe stands that attach to the trailer to keep the pipe above the fenders for easier loading.
Bruh this man really built his own crane 🤣🤣 hell yeaa
Having a hoist to lift things is a big help. I built one to go into a receiver hitch I put through my bumper, I put off to side so it wouldn't interfere with the tailgate. I installed 2 trailer jacks to a piece of c-channel to level it. Yours is much taller, like you, I just used what I have around. Hope to see how this turns out.
Once again I learned something new on one of your videos looking forward to next Friday.
Another fine installment Austin, always good to see how stuff is measured, cut and made into something.
Good video, I wish I would have known how do a good fit up like that
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Wow, I love all ur equipment for welding, I am learning a lot from ur skills, but need to do with my hand often than watching, sadly I am struggling to get a welding job in the UK for 6 years, because of my disability for health and Safety is the cause of the problems stop me from getting a job and also they kept saying I lack experience even I have 7 welding qualifications. Thanks for sharing.
Love the videos man! Broken portaband blade works great for connecting saddle lines, a lot easier to deal with and hold on too! Looks like you get her whooped with a wrap around pretty good though!
I sure liked how you added that extra grip to your hand torch 👌🏻👌🏻
Awesome job Austin. Good job. 👍
Looks like its going to be great 👍👍
Good to see u Austin
Time to do a pipe trailer build!!!
When you are laying out by yourself, get a variety bag of squeeze clamps from the hardware store with different sizes to help hold the ends of your wrap around,because all you have to do is hold thecenter as you draw your chalk line.
Can you do a video on your RAM welding truck, now that you have had if for some time and been using it a lot. tell us your opinion on it and the good and bad with it. Thanks
Hey man love your stuff. You're forgetting the formula for a circumference is 2(3.14)radius. Your circumference on the pipe would end up 27 3/32". Keep it coming!
Receipt paper works good for the saddle. Wrap it around your pipe, overlap it tight and cut it even where the paper overlaps, then fold it until you get 8 peices, then while it’s all folded up cut one corner off then wrap it back around the pipe tightly and then mark each v that’s cut.
Thanks for showing and explaining your little jin pole setup. Been racking my brain trying to come up with something but didn't want gin poles. Kinda had this as an idea but wasn't to sure how it would work.
Great video A!
Take some sheet metal (or whatever)and wrap it around the 8” then trace out the cope and cut it. Then you have a template you can slide over the pipe and trace it out. Saves a little time with measuring next time. Make them for any pipe and hang it on the wall. Great for at the shop projects of course.
Agreed, much easier way to do this. And yes I've done hundreds, probably more
Maybe much easier but I think you both missed the point of this video of teaching people how to layout a saddle. Having templates are great but you only have so much room in a truck, so when you're working in the field it is nice to know how to layout all your fit ups cause the templates will not always be there.
Nice welding and fabricated
Nice job, I’m got the same Beveling love it!!!👍🏼
I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
I am a structural welder for the live entertainment and rigging industry, we glue metal and aluminum together too, just a completely different environment and industry.
Cheers
I was so interested in this video, it end before I was ready. I can't wait for the next episode. I think I'm as excited as you are about this project!
Oh my. Pipe! As it should be!
Looks like a cool job.. Can't wait
Thanks for the tips Austin
Excellent job
For my saddle cuts I set my saw at 27degree ...it seems to work out pretty good
Love it Austin can’t wait to see the next video man
Always looking forward to seeing it done
Greetings from Stillwater. You have a great channel and I enjoy watching your content.
Great video. you do good work you take pride in your work 👍
Austin ! you should buy a little 15 ton picker ! I sure would love to see you driving one of those !
Love the channel man.
great project
I used to always use the Pipefitter's Manual, until I found a set of templates at a welding shop. I think I paid $25 for them. Best thing since sliced bread.
Hang on to both!
I like the receipt paper trick
Its so refreshing to see a fellow tradesman clean the cutting tip prior to lighting the torch. Too often, I see these guys at work, just grab any old torch set, give the cutting tip a quick rub on his pant leg, light her up, and make the most worst and most God awful cut you'd be sure a beaver did it.
I call it a pissed off rabid beaver with PMS.
How about the idiots that think they are good with a torch and when they finish a cut they try to tap the cutoff off with the TIP!!!! With the fire still lit.
We go thru a lot of torch tips.
My favorite adult toy store, besides harbor freight, is j&i manufacturing in madill Oklahoma. They've got one of everything and two of everything else. No other place on the planet can you buy 10 lbs of welding rods for under twenty bucks, but you can at j&i. There welding rods, by the way, are the best I've ever used.
10 pounds under 20?!! I buy 10 pounds for 25 here in texas 👀
Good job laying out your saddle and cutting. You did make a template after you showed them how to lay out 8"I had a set of teemplents from 2"/18" especially if you gonna cut more than one but ill coment on the finish product
That’s awesome!
I like your gin pole and A-frame
Most that I have seen have two poles, and two support cables/chains.
The support cables attach clear up at the head.
With the distance from the support chains to the end of his one leg gin pole, he is putting way too much stress on the pipe, in my opinion. Gonna get worse when it gets longer.
A 24" spring for a screen door works great for laying out saddles too
Every welder needs a blue book. It’s the Bible !
Love the content man! Keep it up! I wish I had a steel yard like you have close to me.
Bro I would love to work with you just for fun you make it humble and fun
I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the build.
BTW Austin, I learned something new today.
'Tis better to ask forgiveness, than hope for permission. This especially applies to new shotgun purchases! LOL.
Cheers!
Whipple
I absolutely love this channel! I really miss the pipeline videos of on the road. Hopefully y’all pipe liners are back to working good again soon. I’m a coal miner so I know the political pains of the industry
We have to get you a skid steer. Your hard work and ingenuity are fantastic but your back will thank you in your 40's with a lifting apparatus.
You’re telling me... 🙄 I can’t wait to have one. If I could do it over again, I would have prioritized a skid steer several years ago.
@@arosswelding I don’t know how handy you are but a 90’s bobcat gehl mustang aren’t near as fancy as those pilot control track loaders but work well. Plus they are fairly straight forward to work on and parts new and used are easy to come by. Love the channel! Keep posting!
@@Mjc103 good information, thanks
I though it was funny how the forklift drivers were just passing pipe
Good video. You should show how to use receipt paper to do one
Awesome iv somewhat learned how to cut a Satle in pipe I need to buy your blue book to have just in case I’m a tree cutter arborist by trade but ya never no when ya gonna fab something up
I’ve got a stack of metal on some heavy duty saw horses...the saw horses are about 9’ long, and weight 600lbs. Welded up on some 4x4 tube steel! Love having my stack of spare parts!
Austin great video as always Question does the 8010 run like 6010 Thanks JB
Back in 70’s we layout reducers, concentric an eccentric an center punch all the lines. All this was done on stainless steel pipe when plasma cutters weren’t invented yet, so we used arc air an followed the punch marks sometime’s🤪
NICE JOB
Hey Austin. I’m a 17y/o and I plan to buy a SA200 when I turn 18 in a few weeks. I’m trying to make some money to put myself through school as I want to be a commercial diver. I wanted to ask for some advice if I should buy a machine and try to get pipe gigs since they bring in more money. I can land fabrication jobs pretty easily, but with me being as young as I am and certifications provided by my high school, if those even count, would it even be possible for me to land a pipe gig? My high school doesn’t offer pipe certifications but we do weld in the 5G and 6G positions and I am pretty good at it. Also I have a small clientele list of businesses I do fabrication work for consistently. Would a reference from a fabrication job be worth anything when I try to land a pipe gig?
Thanks I’m advance,
Jordan.
Hey Austin! Love your videos but I have to ask , why do you guys in The U.S still persist with imperial?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄
That one they put on the outside had some twist in it
Great video thank you for sharing
After fitting up that 8” saddle, you noticed how it sat up a hair on the ears. If you take the torch to the inside and kind of do a bevel on the inside, it should sit down on that fit up! Grinder works too!
Thass absolutely right, tighter fit always a better weld
Can you do a video on how took your measurements from the throat to the end of the pipe like how to figure the takeoffs
Idea to eliminate one step. Mark out your #1 measurements on the angle iron straight edge . Line up on both origin points and mark line. Could also use automatic center punch instead of chalk.
Mr. Ross your editing skills are 💯
Karen the cat is your newest unofficial subscriber.
hey man show us how to make that hitch crane. it looks very help full
I have done this before but you do know there is a math formula that allows you to draw this on paper first and you can just cut out the paper pattern and wrap it on the pipe. Its def worth learning to make patterns. I had sheet metal I kept laying around just to make patterns with when paper wouldn't hold up long enough.
Like a glove!!