Lincoln welder

Bodyperson said

My very talented friend was going broke during the housing bubble burst. He is a cabinet maker. North Dakota was booming with oil. He took some college courses and certified to be a pipe welder. He bought a new Miller welder and loaded up his flatbed 2500 Chevy and headed East.
A little bit later he showed up back home with his tail between his legs. They shamed him because his flatbed was not self built, his truck was not a 3500 and his welder was not Lincoln.
This only fueled his testosterone. He bought a Lincoln welder, built a badass flatbed and we shaved off his 2500 emblems and he headed east again and made a killing.
Today is quite the opposite and his mill work is making him a killing and the oil boom is not in North Dakota any more,

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Ive heard stories like that.
Your pal is talented big time
A 2500 which as far as I know is a 3/4 ton, if its single tire its a little light for a water cooled engine drive welder, especially considering the weight of tools, bottles and such.
A lot of down hand pipeline welders like Lincolns or so im told. I preferred Lincoln as it picked up RPM in a split second when you first struck a arc.
We never were allowed or certified to do down hand, we were welding hi pres and it was always up hand. So I did prefer the pure DC that Lincoln offered but I did pipe that passed a x ray with a air cooled 2 cylinder Miller
Those pipeline guys are unique breed and very good at what they do
From the U tube video's ive seen they don't even do their own grinding or set up of pipe ......We did it all from rigging to fitting to welding but again those guys know their stuff and are particular about what welder they use.