Ain't nothing finer than a pipeliner ('s daughter) ;) My Dad was a proud 798'er since the late 80's, Joel Mallette. He shared so many stories and pics, and friends that were like family. Hard working, extremely intelligent, and not afraid to "scratch for a penny" is what he always said. I unfortunately lost him 5 years ago, but I will always carry the 798 lifestyle with me and pass to his grandsons. My brother still has his old welding rig and it's still running! Keep the legacy going strong!! Much love + respect.
I worked with a crew of 798ers on the trans alaska pipeline putting the 48 inch over the tanana river in Delta in 1976 .My job was to cook moose burgers for the crew.They were a lot of fun.I never was lucky enough to get in the 798ers but I still had a good career as a pipe welder in Alaska and am retired now.
After 33 yrs of a union pipefitter and pipelining. I learned a few things. This job has structure, content, meaning and power. Power of pay, pension and education. Thats a job no other. And let's not forget about some owners and management teams. Engineers scientists ceo to the field inspectors. Top of the line folks. Thanks to this industry and my union. I'm enjoying a little bit of retirement. I was raised on union money so were my children so thanks to all you all from Minnesota.
I see a lot of resentful comments on here toward 798 Pipeliners but I will tell you as someone who grew up in a family of pipeliners that 798 Pipeliners are the elite in their field. Quality and productivity is what makes them valuable to the contractors they work for and rightfully earn the pay and reputation they receive.
On a large job... 798 is VERY, Very impressive!!! I've seen what they do. All hands on deck and the knowhow to get the job done right and on time!!! I haven't hade the opportunity to work with them direct. But I would if the opportunity came about. 798 isn't represented where I live. Or else I would have dug into that a ways back for sure. I'm a one man band and do what ever it takes to get a job done. It'd be nice to see the other side of things. Hats off to those guys!!!
I worked building ski lifts for 20 years we use to splice 36" _1/2" wall pipe together using a teledyne pipe spinner and weld it in top position then my boss hired a man who came in with his own welding truck and a dog named fender with a stick welding rig , he worked 798 pipe line he welded that pipe from the bottom right around . he was the best stick welder i ever saw his name was bill bowen.
As a Local 302 apprentice my first Alaska Pipeline job was in Valdez after 11 months training to operate heavy equipment in Job Corp and then Union training at White Swan Washington. They want to find out what kind of worker you are and see what you might know, do well, or not...are you too proud to grease a rig, scared of getting oil on your jeans, etc. when you actually get on the job. I was a mechanic's helper in and out of the shop for a few months then tasked with an experienced oiler learning those ropes and wearing oil and grease proudly enough. My journeyman there had his Dad there running 220 American cranes on the docks. I suppose I may have been recommended to him because I was then moved to working in and around cranes, learning signals, rigging, safety and respect for the loads I put over people's heads. Moving into many models and sizes of hydraulic cranes from there I was, one day, asked to go move some steel for the 798ers from Bald Knob Arkansas. I'd been told how they were so tight with each other and really good at what they do...put stuff together well. "You treat those guys right, be damn careful" or other phrases like that were uttered by the journeymen as I moved out to get to work. Soon I was given a bigger, newer crane and requested by the 798ers to take a crew up in a man basket to weld the flare stacks in a blizzard...the basket surrounded by a canvas tent so I'd be looking up all day (no radios), neck getting stiff, bladder full, but hangin' in there waiting, watching for a signal...one never knows if an emergency could necessitate immediate attention, lowering them, etc. I was encouraged, I guess the appropriate word might be, (not at all haughty, or puffed up) by being recalled again and again to work with these great guys and can say now in retirement, it was an honor to have worked with them. Good job guys, one and all...
looks like a nice job, when I was a kid I had worked for a small pipeline scab company and it was alright but did not last I really liked that kind of work had 5 years in then they went under that was back 31 years ago since then I was a refrigeration pipe welder mostly ammonia but as a scab, these day's I just wonder if I could have got a pipeline job with the union back years ago where I lived you had to know someone to get in it seemed like but I do know if you don't mind traveling the union would benefit you the most with pension and other benefits, I'm 50 now and realized I missed my chance, wtf was I thinking.
scott zagu I'm 19 and just getting in this fall traveling working on pipelines now I'm a Collison repair tech hopefully I take every oppertu ity that's given
If I was a single guy this would be an awesome trade to get into. I couldn’t be away from kids on the road. I wonder how many of these guys are divorced. The local I work for has a smaller territory. Always home everyday so see the family and go to my kids games and events. Don’t get no better.
i was wondering how could i apply 4 training, ive been attending bishop state community college 4 about a year , i have a little stick experience with stick pipe, but not tig, besides that im about graduate in january 4 short certificate 4 structural welding if i decide to do a couple more for the pipe certificate , i was wondering how can i apply 4 train and do they got dorms, o im 22
@EastTexasClapDoctor 798 well at least your honest. I personally tell people to go to one of the UA building trades locals where you'll be working on plant shutdowns and outages. Get yourself a book with a pipefitter local and you'll be golden.
I was working on a 300 mile pipeline from Fort Stockton to San Antonio when I got drafted in 1968. At that time I was not a fitter, I was on the crew laying out the route and cutting 300 miles of cedar, mesquite, and black locust trees with thorns over 6" long. In one way or another the petrochem industry has put groceries on our table since I was 17 years old. I have been retired since 2003; are there any 300 mile + lines going on these days?
@@timspire1059 That's all I ever had any needed it for. Where are some of these 300 mile pipelines being built ? I know work has been good as I was staking lots of wells in the last ten years I worked but I thought most new work was being tied in to existing facilities within a 100 miles or less.
I plan on going welding school when I get out of highschool and the instructor guy told me he wouldn't really recommend it because they tell you when to do jobs but can someone please tell me if it's recommended or not?
Brady Kice it would be the best thing you could do with your life I've been welding for 25 years if I could do it all over again straight out of high school 798 would be the way to go
More modern installations use seamless pipe with better metallurgy.Most ruptures happen in very old seamed pipe.As the welded joints are rigorously inspected for quality ,even in those days,most ruptures occurr in the pipe seams of these old lines.
Hard work, dedication and pride in craftsmanship will get you where you want to be in life, and Pipeliners Union Local 798 will be happy to have you when the time comes....Good luck...mgd92659
Just now finishing high school, and I've been looking into careers that involve demanding work, which I love. If I have a task that is needing to be finished, it is completed. the money is nice, however the satisfaction of a job well done is even better. I have never welded.. And am now thinking of going to a community college for my first two years of schooling, and take a welding class for the first time. The point is, when I follow through, do any of you think I would be qualified? Thank you.
Another thing bud, it's not an easy job, I am going to school for welding, and the rods we use are the same ones they use on the pipelines, and you need a lot of practice before you go onto this job, it isn't as easy as it looks
Call the hall in late April, AND accept the fact you won't be a welder out of the gate. Be a helper with a closed mouth and open ears. Work hard and earn your spot.
@moseseseseses That's not true at ALL today. Maybe decades ago. I filled out an application, sent it in, paid for my book and dues, and 2 weeks later I got dispatched on my first job. People are using outdated information, and it's just sad.
Iwill admit in a New York second that my information is old and probably out of date. I am 72 years old ; my experience was in the mid 70's to late 80's then I went back into land surveying for the last 20 years i worked.
its funny to read some of these comments on here. There is some real butt hurt going on around here , someone sounds like they are just mad they can't get a 798 book.
To get a 798 book, you don't just show up and tell them I want to join. Plus !!!! better have pocket full of money. Its like any thing else the more higher up people you know, the more you get to work.That local is not all bad are all good. I have been a member of the IBEW since 1961, it is a good union to work with.
shit... I build skyscrapers, now I am a thrill seeker, hard work is hard work, but all in all I did pipeline weld. after a yr, my muscles shrunk, got a belly, and BORING, hard work.....running an excavator is bout equal
I've wanted to be a pipeline welder for a long time. I already had six years of welding going into school, and I know it's not gonna be easy, even after I get out.....but I'd really like to be a 798'er someday. But I guess the thing I'm having a hard time figuring out is if 798 is really the best, why do they have to bitch and picket job sites every time a non-union contractor gets a job? It's a free country, no law says you have to hire union. But if you want the best, you hire 798.
..typical rats.. Lol! Only reason why rats talk so much shit about us 798ers/union workers is cuz they just wish they had it as good. The health insurance alone..I mean, it's like we are all brothers and sisters, watching out for one another. It's tough being away from home so much.. For some, I mean, I do miss my parents every once in a while.. I'm 23/female from Minnesota and I'm so proud to be in 798. Pretty much everyone I've met is real cool-it takes a certain person to b a pipeliner. I gu
@@travissutton1089 They dont. I can work at any job, any where, except non union transmission pipeline. Or I could give up my book and go work non union and for less money in shitty conditions for contractors who may or may not pay. It's not a war between you and I Travis. I want the best for you and your family and if you are happy, then I am truly happy for you.
Can anybody tell me why they used Female welders 'circa-:1978' in Siberia, Russia? According to my auld Dad. The best (X-Rayed) Pipeline Weld results he came across, in his lifetime of working all over the globe, where the Russian FEMALE Welders used in the former USSR. Perhaps an older Spread-Boss can tell this Scotsman why this was the case?
I agree. From what I have learned pipelining is great if thats what you want but for top welders there are way better gigs out there. Be able to come home and see your kids and wife every night while being able to provide for them at the same time. No one should have to love like a pipeliner for a pay check. No one.
YEAH THEY DO IT RIGHT ALL THE TIME EVERY SINGLE TIME...JUST LIKE THE OVER 3000 WELDS THAT HAD TO BE DUG UP AND REDONE IN ALASKA, OHHHHH YEAH THATS RIGHT..
Mike Stonerd okay so 108,000 welds *to be exact* and only 3000 had to be redone..so that's just under 3 percent. Not too bad when you think of the scale of the project. I'm sure you already knew that though, you seem to be an expert.
UNFORTUNATELY YES I AM, THANK YOU. CONSIDERING ALL OUR MESS UPS (OVER HALF) WERE BURIED, UNDER WATER, RIVERS, ETC. COST OVER A BILLOIN. IT WAS A BIG SLAP IN THE FACE. SOME DID TRY TO PIN IT ON THE SCREENING CONTRACTORS, BUT ALL IN ALL THE WELDS WERE LEFT DELIBERATELY AND WE KNOW BY WHO IN THE 798. I DECIDED TO QUIT FOR LOCAL 798 A YR AFTER RETURNING HOME ONTO MORE CHALLENGING THINGS.
What a crock, the real pipeliners are the laborers. We actually work all day. We're outside whether it's -50 or 120 degrees. We're in the mud throwing skids, not sitting half the day in a truck.
Pipeline welders are great at simple straight line fit ups and weld outs. Put the average pipe liner in a plant where he would have to read some pretty complex prints, do the rigging to get a large spool piece from the ground to three hundred feet in the air through lots of bends and elevation changes where he would use several lifting cranes and air tuggers and then construct his own scaffolding, preheat a piece of pipe with 6" walls before the welding even started and they would be lost and think it crazy for one fitter, welder and helper to have that many skills. In plants where you have to do a lot more than run a good stringer bead, hot pass, and a nice looking cap , they would be lost. How do I know ? because I have worked with a good number of them that did work non union jobs on the down low. All of them were good welders but most of the time we had to help them make it if the fitting and rigging got a little complicated. All the union chemical plants and refineries in the Houston Ship Channel area { more pipe per square mile there than anywhere in the world } do not hire union construction companies for their new construction, expansions, or shut downs. Their daily maintenance fitters and welders are union but folks learned many years ago that those union workers just could not put out either the quantity or quality that those kind of high pressure process pipes require. Whether it is at the post office, Veterans Administration or any other union job, you will be very unpopular if you are too skilled or too efficient. If you have been brought up to get the job done right and get it done as quick as possible and to stay busy as long as you are on company time, else you are stealing from the company, then you would not fit in a union but if you do have that kind of work ethic then there are plenty of good non union construction companies that would love to have you and make you a journeyman craftsman in several trades in the same time you would just get through one union apprentice program.
I worked union for 40 years and when you 798 hands not have work we kept you ratty bitches and then promised us work in return so I not have a problem to call 798 lying bitches as we never got 1 man hour out of you worthless slugs and you junkyard welders I had many certs for many procedures including close hard to get in nuclear plants and not one 798 could cut the weld test there so go fuck yourselves
I went to their training center last year for a state welding competition and god damn, you talk about a joke 😂 all they do is 8010 downhill on like 24in pipe. I went and joined the Ironworkers Union 584 out of Tulsa straight out of high school, I absolutely love it. But when I was in welding school, all of the pipe I welded was 6010 uphill root, 6010 downhill hotpass (optional), 7018 uphill fill and cap.
I see you do not elaborate on how to join your union - a pipe welder with 30 yrs experience. So how do I join that should be one of the most important things you discuss if your promoting your brotherhood. If you do not want more union hands then you will continue to loose work !
7000 members is to damn many and any member in that union will vouch for that. I'm in Local 92 with almost 6000 and people are having to wait 7 months to get a job. I got lucky with timing and am in good with a company for name hires but not everyone can get in that situation. Unions don't need more members, they need less.
Hi, looking for a job on the pipeline.Ive got a few certifications and can work in any weather.I worked in Edson AB,and know crapper weather.lol If you can give me a number to call,i would sure like that thanks.Doug Okanagan BC
I have worked in unions, and non union jobs also, and unions are nortorious for nepotism. I bet so many of these people are blood-kin-related. Go try to get in this union, no matter how skilled you may be, and see if you get in. Unions have hurt themselves greatly with their nepotism, that is why there is so much non-union work today.
Can't imagine being union. Must be like giving up your ball sack. I earn what I work for and work for what I earn. Real sense of value and personal worth. Feels really good knowing my employers value ME and reward ME for MY hard work. Life is grand.
Forgot to mention your damn air conditioned shacks, tendency to cab up for light rain or a few snow flakes, and laying down when anybody hurts your feelings.
Some people's God is that union they belong to. Don't think that belonging to a union that you are going to have work all the time. And a lot of union jobs offer no benefits. If you are an elite welder, believe me, there are much better jobs for welders than pipe lining welding. These poor people are working harder, instead of smarter. Leave pipe lining and go get a good welding job.
My father got offered to be a 798 pipeliner and he didn't do it. And he was probably better than 98% of the 798 pipeliners. It doesn't mean your an elite welder just means you don't like being home.
You have listened to a lot of hype here. There are such much more better welding jobs to be had than doing pipe lining. Guess what, how would you like to make $3000.00 per day in your back yard on a gig table, and sit down when you want and sip cold tea? All you need is the right idea and product. You don't have to go out in 30 below zero to make a living if you are a good welder.
@@tommybeck9104 I was boilermaker 601 in milwaukee. non union now working for powerhouses/power piping Nuclear ASME. pay is better and I still can sweep my mess on my own without a grievance. I make good money. my 60×90 shop shows it. sucka
Ain't nothing finer than a pipeliner ('s daughter) ;) My Dad was a proud 798'er since the late 80's, Joel Mallette. He shared so many stories and pics, and friends that were like family. Hard working, extremely intelligent, and not afraid to "scratch for a penny" is what he always said. I unfortunately lost him 5 years ago, but I will always carry the 798 lifestyle with me and pass to his grandsons. My brother still has his old welding rig and it's still running! Keep the legacy going strong!! Much love + respect.
I worked with a crew of 798ers on the trans alaska pipeline putting the 48 inch over the tanana river in Delta in 1976 .My job was to cook moose burgers for the crew.They were a lot of fun.I never was lucky enough to get in the 798ers but I still had a good career as a pipe welder in Alaska and am retired now.
I never had a better Job Pipeliners are the best 798 can do it like one big happy family working together
After 33 yrs of a union pipefitter and pipelining. I learned a few things. This job has structure, content, meaning and power. Power of pay, pension and education. Thats a job no other. And let's not forget about some owners and management teams. Engineers scientists ceo to the field inspectors. Top of the line folks. Thanks to this industry and my union. I'm enjoying a little bit of retirement. I was raised on union money so were my children so thanks to all you all from Minnesota.
I am a 798 member and I love my union! Thank you local 798!
Not anymore you don’t lOl
I see a lot of resentful comments on here toward 798 Pipeliners but I will tell you as someone who grew up in a family of pipeliners that 798 Pipeliners are the elite in their field. Quality and productivity is what makes them valuable to the contractors they work for and rightfully earn the pay and reputation they receive.
On a large job... 798 is VERY, Very impressive!!! I've seen what they do. All hands on deck and the knowhow to get the job done right and on time!!! I haven't hade the opportunity to work with them direct. But I would if the opportunity came about. 798 isn't represented where I live. Or else I would have dug into that a ways back for sure. I'm a one man band and do what ever it takes to get a job done. It'd be nice to see the other side of things. Hats off to those guys!!!
Ain"t nothing finer than a Murphy pipeliner!
I worked building ski lifts for 20 years we use to splice 36" _1/2" wall pipe together using a teledyne pipe spinner and weld it in top position then my boss hired a man who came in with his own welding truck and a dog named fender with a stick welding rig , he worked 798 pipe line he welded that pipe from the bottom right around . he was the best stick welder i ever saw his name was bill bowen.
Calling a welder out working a non-union job will get him in deep shit and 86'd from the union. Good job.
Fortunes Fabrication he didn't say it was non union..
@@fortunesfabrication6021 Plus, welding water line for a ski mountain, is not 798 work.
@@fortunesfabrication6021 I doubt 798 would care if he's not building a pipeline. Building ski lifts is not under their contract.
@@fortunesfabrication6021 True, but before I left the union entirely, I would moonlight non union jobs. Combo welder in boilers and plants
As a Local 302 apprentice my first Alaska Pipeline job was in Valdez after 11 months training to operate heavy equipment in Job Corp and then Union training at White Swan Washington. They want to find out what kind of worker you are and see what you might know, do well, or not...are you too proud to grease a rig, scared of getting oil on your jeans, etc. when you actually get on the job. I was a mechanic's helper in and out of the shop for a few months then tasked with an experienced oiler learning those ropes and wearing oil and grease proudly enough. My journeyman there had his Dad there running 220 American cranes on the docks. I suppose I may have been recommended to him because I was then moved to working in and around cranes, learning signals, rigging, safety and respect for the loads I put over people's heads. Moving into many models and sizes of hydraulic cranes from there I was, one day, asked to go move some steel for the 798ers from Bald Knob Arkansas. I'd been told how they were so tight with each other and really good at what they do...put stuff together well. "You treat those guys right, be damn careful" or other phrases like that were uttered by the journeymen as I moved out to get to work. Soon I was given a bigger, newer crane and requested by the 798ers to take a crew up in a man basket to weld the flare stacks in a blizzard...the basket surrounded by a canvas tent so I'd be looking up all day (no radios), neck getting stiff, bladder full, but hangin' in there waiting, watching for a signal...one never knows if an emergency could necessitate immediate attention, lowering them, etc. I was encouraged, I guess the appropriate word might be, (not at all haughty, or puffed up) by being recalled again and again to work with these great guys and can say now in retirement, it was an honor to have worked with them. Good job guys, one and all...
Simply the BEST, most highly skilled men and women in the pipeline industry!
I had some dam good pipe welders in Siberia and Arabia.
Im one of them
Katy Herrick how long have you been doing this? i applied for a union. Waiting on interview confirmation for union out of sc.
798 Pipeliners are some tough mother truckers. Props from a fellow Union brother and Welder local 28 SMWIA NY & LI
I am a 798 hand
798 can't keep a man busy 12 months straight
Worked many 12 months season
Nope work 6 months still make over 100 grand plus bennies
looks like a nice job, when I was a kid I had worked for a small pipeline scab company and it was alright but did not last I really liked that kind of work had 5 years in then they went under that was back 31 years ago since then I was a refrigeration pipe welder mostly ammonia but as a scab, these day's I just wonder if I could have got a pipeline job with the union back years ago where I lived you had to know someone to get in it seemed like but I do know if you don't mind traveling the union would benefit you the most with pension and other benefits, I'm 50 now and realized I missed my chance, wtf was I thinking.
scott zagu I'm 19 and just getting in this fall traveling working on pipelines now I'm a Collison repair tech hopefully I take every oppertu ity that's given
I've heard of Clark Eastwood a lot. just yesterday my old welder called, and I think he said he was workin for him now in West Virginia..
@GoaldenEye There is a company up there called "Aleyska" perhaps that's what he was referring to?
Yes. amazing project
"There's nothing finer than a pipeline"
I can think of a few things
What does a track hire operator make in this field of work?
If I was a single guy this would be an awesome trade to get into. I couldn’t be away from kids on the road. I wonder how many of these guys are divorced. The local I work for has a smaller territory. Always home everyday so see the family and go to my kids games and events. Don’t get no better.
BRAVO !!!!
i was wondering how could i apply 4 training, ive been attending bishop state community college 4 about a year , i have a little stick experience with stick pipe, but not tig, besides that im about graduate in january 4 short certificate 4 structural welding if i decide to do a couple more for the pipe certificate , i was wondering how can i apply 4 train and do they got dorms, o im 22
@EastTexasClapDoctor 798 well at least your honest. I personally tell people to go to one of the UA building trades locals where you'll be working on plant shutdowns and outages. Get yourself a book with a pipefitter local and you'll be golden.
Are they same as pipefitters and is there a lot of work in this industry though ?
I was working on a 300 mile pipeline from Fort Stockton to San Antonio when I got drafted in 1968. At that time I was not a fitter, I was on the crew laying out the route and cutting 300 miles of cedar, mesquite, and black locust trees with thorns over 6" long.
In one way or another the petrochem industry has put groceries on our table since I was 17 years old.
I have been retired since 2003; are there any 300 mile + lines going on these days?
Plenty of them.
@@@timspire1059 Have you ever had to use purge paper ?
@@jamesadams5386 for what. Stainless?
@@timspire1059 That's all I ever had any needed it for. Where are some of these 300 mile pipelines being built ? I know work has been good as I was staking lots of wells in the last ten years I worked but I thought most new work was being tied in to existing facilities within a 100 miles or less.
We did lots of offshore locations also but I never knew of any long lines.
I plan on going welding school when I get out of highschool and the instructor guy told me he wouldn't really recommend it because they tell you when to do jobs but can someone please tell me if it's recommended or not?
Brady Kice it would be the best thing you could do with your life I've been welding for 25 years if I could do it all over again straight out of high school 798 would be the way to go
Robert Atwood I heard pipeline welder make a lot of 💰
Is that pipeline buried when it's all assembled, or does it sit on the surface?
Sign in Here sits on the surface
639 ohio , work with a lot of 798 guys out on the rover line best group of people I've meet you guys keep up the bad ass work #unionpride #798boys
Working on a pipelines weldings is my passion my everything am in college now just doing some hards works buts in everything we just put gods firsts
I worked gas pipelines for 25years.Not 798 but we worked all year around.
LGB
FJB !
Work union,live better !
Retired IUOE local 49 here
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When a pipeline has a leak , is it from a faulty weld ?
Not necessarily. Remember EVERY weld is x-rayed to ensure it meets code.
No, it could be damage from after the pipe is buried. Or it could be the lengthwise seam from the factory.
More modern installations use seamless pipe with better metallurgy.Most ruptures happen in very old seamed pipe.As the welded joints are rigorously inspected for quality ,even in those days,most ruptures occurr in the pipe seams of these old lines.
Hard work, dedication and pride in craftsmanship will get you where you want to be in life, and Pipeliners Union Local 798 will be happy to have you when the time comes....Good luck...mgd92659
I'm a retired Journeyman spacer out of Pipeliners Local 798
Just now finishing high school, and I've been looking into careers that involve demanding work, which I love. If I have a task that is needing to be finished, it is completed. the money is nice, however the satisfaction of a job well done is even better. I have never welded.. And am now thinking of going to a community college for my first two years of schooling, and take a welding class for the first time. The point is, when I follow through, do any of you think I would be qualified? Thank you.
Update?
Where's 798 out of ??
Tulsa, Oklahoma
local 460 here when i turn out i wanna do a job with you guys
What other union jobs are out there for welders?
Anything you can think of. What do you want to do?
Iron works, pipefitters, Steamfitters, boilermakers.
Pipelines is my dreams jobs weldings my life’s to workings on the pipelines
i was on this job they shot the video at it was a cold mother up there
I was too
@1798fch well put :)
I'm that extremely handsome workside spacer at 3 sec that leans off the pipe when he see the cameras on him lol
what happends when there is no pipelineing to be done? everyones out of work?
WhiteOwlVideo I:)
Another thing bud, it's not an easy job, I am going to school for welding, and the rods we use are the same ones they use on the pipelines, and you need a lot of practice before you go onto this job, it isn't as easy as it looks
What's up 798 just got done finishing welding school having a hard time getting a job
Call the hall in late April, AND accept the fact you won't be a welder out of the gate. Be a helper with a closed mouth and open ears. Work hard and earn your spot.
@moseseseseses That's not true at ALL today. Maybe decades ago. I filled out an application, sent it in, paid for my book and dues, and 2 weeks later I got dispatched on my first job. People are using outdated information, and it's just sad.
Iwill admit in a New York second that my information is old and probably out of date. I am 72 years old ; my experience was in the mid 70's to late 80's then I went back into land surveying for the last 20 years i worked.
am 17 and my dad is in 798 he goes to school more then i do AM NOT JOKEING they say he has bad weldes and he needs to go to there school.
Stx heat pipeliners ;)
TOM PIPPS . FOAM - BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA USA . HI HELLO . I LINK THE WORK .
UA is the only way.Quality training, quality work.Kepp it up Bros and Sisters. Joe UA Local 174 Retired.
I worked on gas pipelines in New Jersey 1960s till 1980s.Winter of 1977 worst ever.
Worked on that job it was a cold bitch bemidji minn
its funny to read some of these comments on here. There is some real butt hurt going on around here , someone sounds like they are just mad they can't get a 798 book.
To get a 798 book, you don't just show up and tell them I want to join. Plus !!!! better have pocket full of money. Its like any thing else the more higher up people you know, the more you get to work.That local is not all bad are all good.
I have been a member of the IBEW since 1961, it is a good union to work with.
shit... I build skyscrapers, now I am a thrill seeker, hard work is hard work, but all in all I did pipeline weld. after a yr, my muscles shrunk, got a belly, and BORING, hard work.....running an excavator is bout equal
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Pipeliners. Loudmouthed. Foulmouthed. Disrespectful. City Council ran them out of town. We couldn't have cared more.
Tulsa OK
Fuck that im just a fitter welder better grind his own shit i just watch him give him a rod stuff like that but not gonna grind his welds
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I've wanted to be a pipeline welder for a long time. I already had six years of welding going into school, and I know it's not gonna be easy, even after I get out.....but I'd really like to be a 798'er someday. But I guess the thing I'm having a hard time figuring out is if 798 is really the best, why do they have to bitch and picket job sites every time a non-union contractor gets a job? It's a free country, no law says you have to hire union. But if you want the best, you hire 798.
I know everything going on
Good for you
..typical rats.. Lol! Only reason why rats talk so much shit about us 798ers/union workers is cuz they just wish they had it as good. The health insurance alone..I mean, it's like we are all brothers and sisters, watching out for one another. It's tough being away from home so much.. For some, I mean, I do miss my parents every once in a while.. I'm 23/female from Minnesota and I'm so proud to be in 798. Pretty much everyone I've met is real cool-it takes a certain person to b a pipeliner. I gu
and now 798 doesn't have any work lol shocker
Eff 798
ugh i coated that pipe... glad i quit that job
Is Local 798 only pipeline? No industrial sites? Refineries, power plants etc.
Cool. Keep up the great work- 488 in Edmonton
+dbennett4 Yes, ONLY PL
Any pipe liner unions with mixed races lol all I see is snow
Best welders in the world easily out of 798. There are no substitutes.
I am a proud non union pipeline welder. live free or die
Paul Bradshaw what company can I ask? you got your own rig?
You must be a badass then
Am I a slave to my union, or my desire for a better life and future? Hmm.
I'm not going to pay every month to tell me where I can and cannot work or even better spend 3k on a book....
@@travissutton1089 They dont. I can work at any job, any where, except non union transmission pipeline. Or I could give up my book and go work non union and for less money in shitty conditions for contractors who may or may not pay. It's not a war between you and I Travis. I want the best for you and your family and if you are happy, then I am truly happy for you.
798 hands *rolls eyes*
Can anybody tell me why they used Female welders 'circa-:1978' in Siberia, Russia?
According to my auld Dad. The best (X-Rayed) Pipeline Weld results he came across, in his lifetime of working all over the globe, where the Russian FEMALE Welders used in the former USSR. Perhaps an older Spread-Boss can tell this Scotsman why this was the case?
Nothing easier than burning 6010 and 7018 on pipe.
I agree. From what I have learned pipelining is great if thats what you want but for top welders there are way better gigs out there. Be able to come home and see your kids and wife every night while being able to provide for them at the same time. No one should have to love like a pipeliner for a pay check. No one.
YEAH THEY DO IT RIGHT ALL THE TIME EVERY SINGLE TIME...JUST LIKE THE OVER 3000 WELDS THAT HAD TO BE DUG UP AND REDONE IN ALASKA, OHHHHH YEAH THATS RIGHT..
Mike Stonerd 3000 welds out of how many million?
a million??? lmao.........there were 108,000 pipeline welds to be exact!
Mike Stonerd okay so 108,000 welds *to be exact* and only 3000 had to be redone..so that's just under 3 percent. Not too bad when you think of the scale of the project. I'm sure you already knew that though, you seem to be an expert.
UNFORTUNATELY YES I AM, THANK YOU. CONSIDERING ALL OUR MESS UPS (OVER HALF) WERE BURIED, UNDER WATER, RIVERS, ETC. COST OVER A BILLOIN. IT WAS A BIG SLAP IN THE FACE. SOME DID TRY TO PIN IT ON THE SCREENING CONTRACTORS, BUT ALL IN ALL THE WELDS WERE LEFT DELIBERATELY AND WE KNOW BY WHO IN THE 798. I DECIDED TO QUIT FOR LOCAL 798 A YR AFTER RETURNING HOME ONTO MORE CHALLENGING THINGS.
So there was a repair rate of apx 2.8%!!! Well darn it, no one is perfect. LoL.
What a crock, the real pipeliners are the laborers. We actually work all day. We're outside whether it's -50 or 120 degrees. We're in the mud throwing skids, not sitting half the day in a truck.
All about 798 thats whats up
Sure, they teach you how to do it! Just go and learn! good luck to ya, maybe I'll see ya there! (going to welding college also)
@moseseseseses Stick to your shorthand in the office with the girls.
Pipeline welders are great at simple straight line fit ups and weld outs. Put the average pipe liner in a plant where he would have to read some pretty complex prints, do the rigging to get a large spool piece from the ground to three hundred feet in the air through lots of bends and elevation changes where he would use several lifting cranes and air tuggers and then construct his own scaffolding, preheat a piece of pipe with 6" walls before the welding even started and they would be lost and think it crazy for one fitter, welder and helper to have that many skills. In plants where you have to do a lot more than run a good stringer bead, hot pass, and a nice looking cap , they would be lost. How do I know ? because I have worked with a good number of them that did work non union jobs on the down low. All of them were good welders but most of the time we had to help them make it if the fitting and rigging got a little complicated.
All the union chemical plants and refineries in the Houston Ship Channel area { more pipe per square mile there than anywhere in the world } do not hire union construction companies for their new construction, expansions, or shut downs. Their daily maintenance fitters and welders are union but folks learned many years ago that those union workers just could not put out either the quantity or quality that those kind of high pressure process pipes require.
Whether it is at the post office, Veterans Administration or any other union job, you will be very unpopular if you are too skilled or too efficient. If you have been brought up to get the job done right and get it done as quick as possible and to stay busy as long as you are on company time, else you are stealing from the company, then you would not fit in a union but if you do have that kind of work ethic then there are plenty of good non union construction companies that would love to have you and make you a journeyman craftsman in several trades in the same time you would just get through one union apprentice program.
All the 798 haters is the ones that couldn't make it so we ran there ass off
I worked union for 40 years and when you 798 hands not have work we kept you ratty bitches and then promised us work in return so I not have a problem to call 798 lying bitches as we never got 1 man hour out of you worthless slugs and you junkyard welders I had many certs for many procedures including close hard to get in nuclear plants and not one 798 could cut the weld test there so go fuck yourselves
I went to their training center last year for a state welding competition and god damn, you talk about a joke 😂 all they do is 8010 downhill on like 24in pipe. I went and joined the Ironworkers Union 584 out of Tulsa straight out of high school, I absolutely love it. But when I was in welding school, all of the pipe I welded was 6010 uphill root, 6010 downhill hotpass (optional), 7018 uphill fill and cap.
I see you do not elaborate on how to join your union - a pipe welder with 30 yrs experience. So how do I join that should be one of the most important things you discuss if your promoting your brotherhood. If you do not want more union hands then you will continue to loose work !
this is an advertisement for customers. Not a hiring advertisement.
I understand that - but my comment question stands.
7000 members is to damn many and any member in that union will vouch for that. I'm in Local 92 with almost 6000 and people are having to wait 7 months to get a job. I got lucky with timing and am in good with a company for name hires but not everyone can get in that situation. Unions don't need more members, they need less.
Not to many union hands - but to much non union work.
@@zanelile515 Go online and fill out the application like everyone else does.
Women usually lay down the neatest welds...A former welder talking...
I mean LIVE like a pipeliner
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Hi, looking for a job on the pipeline.Ive got a few certifications and can work in any weather.I worked in Edson AB,and know crapper weather.lol If you can give me a number to call,i would sure like that thanks.Doug Okanagan BC
please!!!!!
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I have worked in unions, and non union jobs also, and unions are nortorious for nepotism. I bet so many of these people are blood-kin-related. Go try to get in this union, no matter how skilled you may be, and see if you get in. Unions have hurt themselves greatly with their nepotism, that is why there is so much non-union work today.
Can't imagine being union. Must be like giving up your ball sack. I earn what I work for and work for what I earn. Real sense of value and personal worth. Feels really good knowing my employers value ME and reward ME for MY hard work. Life is grand.
As you make a very mediocre paycheck with little to no benefits...
There's more than what you see little buddy.
Don't be a hater.
Fukin hater. Lol. $$$
@@mikecunningham7699 don't hate anyone. Just have a different opinion.
Watched unions ruin too many companies.
No hard feelings. I work both sides. Whatever pay the bills. Just another work option.
@7pipewelder NOTHING FINENR THEN A PIPLINER NOTHING BROKER THEN A 798ER
Forgot to mention your damn air conditioned shacks, tendency to cab up for light rain or a few snow flakes, and laying down when anybody hurts your feelings.
Some people's God is that union they belong to. Don't think that belonging to a union that you are going to have work all the time. And a lot of union jobs offer no benefits. If you are an elite welder, believe me, there are much better jobs for welders than pipe lining welding. These poor people are working harder, instead of smarter. Leave pipe lining and go get a good welding job.
My father got offered to be a 798 pipeliner and he didn't do it. And he was probably better than 98% of the 798 pipeliners. It doesn't mean your an elite welder just means you don't like being home.
You have listened to a lot of hype here. There are such much more better welding jobs to be had than doing pipe lining. Guess what, how would you like to make $3000.00 per day in your back yard on a gig table, and sit down when you want and sip cold tea? All you need is the right idea and product. You don't have to go out in 30 below zero to make a living if you are a good welder.
bunch of whiners...all unions are
Sounds like you couldn’t get in the union.
@@tommybeck9104 I was boilermaker 601 in milwaukee. non union now working for powerhouses/power piping Nuclear ASME. pay is better and I still can sweep my mess on my own without a grievance. I make good money. my 60×90 shop shows it. sucka
@@750nicko congratulations. You’re better off where you are. You would never be a union brother.