-: My name is Israel.
I'm a welder here at Waukesha.
A busy day for me would be
under the hood until I'm done.
So the minute I get to work,
my day starts at 4:30 in the morning.
So I gotta get up at 3:40 in the morning every day,
Monday through Friday.
And usually I finish around one or 1:30,
depending on the day.
If I'm busy now I usually stay until three o'clock
on a busy day, three or 3:30,
just to get everything that has to be done
to keep up with the schedule also.
When the work order gets given to the supervisor,
the supervisor brings it out to the floor.
After it gets on the floor
it goes to our saw guy,
which our saw guy cuts all of our stuff for us.
After it's cut he sends it over to the blast booth.
After the blast booth it comes over
to whoever is fitting up.
I could be fitting up.
The other welder could be fitting up,
or the other two guys could be fitting it up also.
A flux core, flux core welding, you drag it.
You don't push the weld.
If you push the weld you're gonna get slag in there,
and slag is not good for the weld
'cause then you have at least a small piece
of no penetration.
And usually for structural welding
that's a very,
that's pretty much like a violation.
You can't have slag in there.
It has to be completely clean.
We do a lot of pipe welding,
which is for actually,
we call it a manifold but it's a big pipe.
Sometimes they're small,
but it's just for the way
the water can go through for the pumps.
And our pumps,
it all varies what kinda pumps the customers want.
I mean, there's a pump for like 50 horsepower
and that does this amount of gallons per minute.
At work we actually have weld procedure processes,
which it gives you procedure of how to weld this pipe
or how to weld a lag or a flange
into a two-inch pipe.
It gives you the parameters.
Parameters are usually for your welder,
the numbers, your volts and your wire feed
that you have to set up for your welder.
That's a very important thing to have,
'cause if you don't have that correct numbers,
you will struggle a lot.
Like I said, it doesn't hurt to ask questions.
The smartest person asks questions.
The more you ask the more you're gonna learn.