Appreciation post for the old guy who called out a bad weld on a bridge beam last Tuesday

I was on site in Columbus helping with a pedestrian bridge install and this retired ironworker just walks up and points at a gusset plate. He said 'that's gonna crack within 6 months' and showed me the slag inclusion. Foreman ignored him but I checked later with a dye penetrant kit and sure enough he was right. How often do you guys actually trust random bystanders who stop and give advice on job sites?

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amy_murphy1525d ago

Man I've learned the hard way that those old timers are almost always worth listening to. They've seen so many failures that they can smell a bad weld from 50 feet away.

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amyb5425d ago

Totally agree, that "smell a bad weld from 50 feet away" line is spot on, I once ignored an old guy's warning and ended up re-doing the whole job.