Cut a thick-walled pipe to 3ft and welded the two discs to it. The edges of the disc were pretty sharp so I ground them down flat. Then I got to looking at the thing and decided I needed to brace the bottom so cut some 3/16 rusted plate and welded triangles to the base.

I sure learned a lot. For example, I knew I was supposed to tack the pieces in place before running a bead but I thought "they're small, what could go wrong?" HA! Mr Grinder came out and assisted removal and redoing it right.

I used an in-law's MIG just enough to recognize that MIG is where I'm going to end up eventually. But I really want to get pretty good at stick before I go to MIG.

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