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> My grandfather did welding for Bethlehem Steel as did my father.

A company from 1857 that scarcely advanced it's Health & Safety practices.

> And that's not to mention just the baseline damage from lugging and hauling and hefting heavy pieces of metal.

Exactly - modern metal fabrication workers, fitters, turners, machinists, et al use forklifts, overhead cranes, eye protection, breathing rigs that filter out toxins and cool the face, and essentially work smart .. and that's been my experience since I first TA'd in a mining locomotive shed back in the late 1970s.

You can see examples of this in the heavy industry repair domain here:

https://www.youtube.com/@CuttingEdgeEngineering/videos

[bsder]

Erm: https://youtu.be/NZf-fTK7q7E?t=592

Sure, he has eye and ear protection. But he's just inhaling the dust from that stuff.

Even worse, he's using old school stick welding that's actually been banned in multiple places because it was so stupidly toxic.

All your video did was reinforce that, yeah, industrial work looks exactly like what I expect it to look like and it still sucks.

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He's descaling with his mouth shut. Not inhaling.

> Even worse, he's using old school stick welding.

Can you show an example of that? (You linked to him using a needle gun not a stick welder)

He's got top of the range spooled feed welders and does jobs at a scale that take hundreds of metres of feed .. these are not the jobs you spend all day swapping sticks for.

If you watched more of the channel you might pick up a lot of discussion about what is and isn't toxic, what are safe and unsafe practices.

The same job | video you linked, different time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZf-fTK7q7E&t=592s

That's gouging out metal wearing a closed system breather as that's actual toxic residue.

Welding a nut on to help separate the metal sleeve - not a stick welder: https://youtu.be/NZf-fTK7q7E?t=438

> All your video did was reinforce that, ...

It honestly seems as if you saw what you wanted to see without paying attention to detail about what was actually happening.

[bsder]

He's gouging via stick. No breathing apparatus. https://youtu.be/NZf-fTK7q7E?t=253