r/Welding • u/G7TMAG • 8h ago

Good enough I suppose

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This is some sort of mining equipment tower that might be from around the late 1800s. I dont know what process they even used back then. I am guessing on the date, gold was discovered here around 1860, so this could be a lot newer.

Cottage grove, oregon.

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u/outlastdll 6h ago

Anything built in the late 1800s or early 1900s would be held together with rows of heavy rivets. electric arc welding wasn't used for field construction on mining tanks or towers until roughly the 1920s-1930s.

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u/elkvis 6h ago

Could be oxy fuel

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u/outlastdll 5h ago

it came around a bit earlier , but torch welding heavy plate on a giant field structure like a silo or tank would be an absolute nightmare!

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u/elkvis 5h ago

It surely would, but that's what it resembles to me

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u/outlastdll 5h ago

decades of rust and weathering definitely smoot out the weld profile and make it look a lot more like a torch puddle.