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A tip o’ the hat to several readers who sent me the link to this video.
This welder had clearly never heard of dynamic tension – at least, not in a steel pipe. Note (early in the video) the excavator bucket holding down one side of the pipe he’s cutting. As he’s about to find out . . . there’s a reason for that.
Sproinnnng!
Peter
Well,poo. He didn't even fly far enough.
Heltau
I don't know why you would call that dynamic tension. That's not a term I've heard in my Engineering career. Fortunately, the pipe didn't throw him much, but I'm sure he had to change his drawers soon after.
Perhaps next time, he'll give a bit of thought cutting a pipe when it's cantilevered like that. He actually needed to support the section he was cutting off, rather than holding it down.
What do you say to the man with a 78 IQ? Nice weld.
I'm actually kind of impressed. He didn't drop his torch, and the first thing he did was cut off the gas, before he even got to his feet.