Welding woes...frustrating!!

Well seems like you are setting yourself up for failure, sorry. You plan on running a 50' cord? I can't weld worth ****, but when I do and if it's for practice it's not 50' away.
Again sorry but...
I looked into that and its extremely expensive to make one a 8awg cord with no plug is like 1.88 a foot. That's 94 bucks with the ends I can buy a cord cheaper than that. I have done some research on it a guy at work recommended the same thing. Unless I can find the cord cheaper somewhere