Welding ground...don't do this!

Another reminder when I was a yute, I worked for a small family shop where anything goes, from tea kettle to Caterpillars. Ol Floyd was an old CB from the Navy who taught me a ton, There for awhile we seemed to be doing alot of trailer hitches and he must of bought a bunch of random hitches we would modify to make work. Ol Floyd liked to just weld them to the frames instead of drilling and bolting.
One day he yelled everybody out of the shop! He come barreling out from under a newer car towards the bolt bin, grabbed a big screw and a driver and run back to the tank that was streaming gasoline to the floor. He had accidently hit the tank with his welding rod and burned a hole in it.
The screw stopped the leak and he soldered over it. He notified the customer and he was ok with it. :)

I had to do a few and man I was a nervous wreck striking an arc 1.5-2" away from a gas tank. I believe he told costumers to bring them in full.
A little wiser in my years, I`d do things a little different:lol: