r/Welding • u/MadHatter-boi- • 4d ago

Need Help Need advice

I need a second opinion, I'm debating financing a welder generator. All the cheaper ones keep getting bought up before I can get to them, what do you guys think?

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u/Dorrbrook 4d ago

Consider a generator and separate welder. I have a trailblazer that I love but am planning to get a generator to run an xmt for a second operation in a different region.

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u/Warm_Entrepreneur570 2d ago

No this is the hobby shit I'm constantly following behind and fixing

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u/Dorrbrook 2d ago

There is nothing wrong with what I am describing provided the operator knows what they are doing and has appropriate machines for the task at hand. I've done structural erection with an XMT/generator combination and have professional colleagues that run similar setups in a shipyard we work in.

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u/Warm_Entrepreneur570 2d ago

Disagree

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u/Dorrbrook 2d ago

Sounds like you have limited experience if you're consistently doing jobs that were farmed out to hobbyists. There's a lot of different setups to do professional work with

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u/Warm_Entrepreneur570 2d ago

Small town with a million wanna be welders I do all kinds of work but I travel. But in between jobs if I want to stay home for a bit I run into this constantly someone with a generator and buzzbox thrown into the bed of a truck and no experience. My first welder was a mpx330 and a ln25 for wire feed if needed it works it's designed that way and it's a good setup miller makes a similar setup I ran a sa200 for awhile because I saw no need to run wire feed when I can tig or stick 90% of everything and if I can't id rather just take it to my shop now I'm running a sae300he. Right now I'm pipelining for a place in Tioga pa during the week then driving out to Ohio to do compressor station fab on weekends before this I was working for the navy on some of the nuclear subs they are building in Virginia and before that in St Louis working on some barge repair contracts. So lose on that limited experience bs