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Hit 500 welds tested this month and that number caught me off guard
Been tracking my x-ray weld tests for a while now on these hydro projects. Never really added them up until my foreman asked for my log sheet last Friday. Turns out I passed 500 tests just in March alone with only 3 rejects. That 99.4% rate surprised me because most days it just feels like grinding through the routine. Anyone else ever step back and look at their actual numbers?
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black.joel5mo ago
That's a damn good rate, man. Numbers like that are easy to lose track of when you're just grinding.
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parker_park85mo ago
Jumped right into my own logs after seeing this. I started noticing the same thing with my own work, not just welding but any repetitive job. @black.joel is right, the grind makes you forget the numbers. I was shocked last summer when I added up how many feet of pipe I laid in one stretch, felt like I was crawling but the tally said otherwise. Makes you realize how much you actually get done when you just keep your head down and move.
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martin.paige5mo ago
Glad you both dug into your own logs after seeing this. It's wild how the routine blurs the actual output. I started keeping a tally on a whiteboard by my locker, just a running count of feet welded per week. Seeing that number climb every Friday makes the grind feel way more real, like it actually adds up to something solid instead of just feeling like another day of sparks and sweat.
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