Originally Posted by
redshift1
I roll my eyes when I hear people mention that welding is easy...
It takes a very great deal of practice and constant attention to detail to get sound results, but there are few things in life so satisfying as making a professional level weld on a difficult job.
I can understand why this photo is one of your favorites.
Not to mention there is a very good reason why people building steel frames with those kind of tubesets (dimensions, material) go the very labor intensive road of using lugs and brazing (and learning to do so), instead of stick welding. I'm sure they just haven't thought of that obvious solution!
but to be fair, we don't know anything about the motive, the budget, and the circumstances under which that builder was working and what the goal was. A
(lthough it is a bit hard to imagine what those might have been to justify a trainwreck like this
)