Posted by JD Seller on June 19, 2016 at 10:51:35 from (208.126.198.123):
I have giving a lot of thought as to what I would like my kids and Grand Kids to remember me by. ( Be sides being a grumpy old fart!! LOL) I think the greatest thing we can pass along is knowledge/skills. Money or material things are soon forgotten. They will not remember twenty dollars given to them on their birthday 30 years from now.
I am teaching one of my Grand daughters Black Smithing or more specifically shoeing horses. She is a horse nut but one with some common sense. Meaning she understands earning a living while involved with horses is hard to do. So she is going to take accounting PLUS learn to be a farrier.
So now I have another generation to work with. I was presented an opportunity yesterday to do this again. I bought a portable welder, Hobart GR-303, a few years ago. I will admit to not getting time to fool with it any since I brought it home. I unloaded it and it has set. So the last few days I have been piddling with it. Cleaning up the old gas and such. Amazingly the battery still had charge. I KNOW it has set there for over two years in a unheated shed and still cranked without me putting charger on the battery. The older of my younger grandsons was over playing around in the shop. Once I got the welder running I was testing it out. The 115 volt side was working great. So to check the welder side I just grabbed a hand full of random old welding rods and started striking arcs. I was not even running beads just checking and adjusting the welder while loading it. My grandson came over and was watching. He asked to try to strike and arc. So that started me teaching him about welding. We spent the next 3-4 hours running welds. I must say the Hobart welder is one of the smoothest running welders I have ever welded with. Your beads just run like melted butter. I told my Grandson not to expect many welders to run this way. LOL By the end of the day he was running pretty good beads. Now I know these are all just flat welds and such but that is not a bad start for him.
I forgot to get a picture of the two pieces he welded together he took them home to show his Dad,but I did still have one of the later flat plate welds we did. Only one of the beads in the pictures was welded by me. The second from the bottom is mine. All the others are his welds. The top bead is his last on this plate.
Now the rest of the story!!! LOL The young MAN in question will not turn nine until the 25 of this month. That is right he is just shy of nine years old and can run a pretty good bead for his first day welding.
P.S. I wonder if he will remember years from now his old Grandpa teaching him to weld right before his ninth birthday?????
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