Farm and Workshop Welding: Everything You Need to Know to Weld, Cut, and Shape Metal (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 400 Step-by-Step Photos to Help You Learn Hands-On Welding and Avoid Common Mistakes Paperback – September 1, 2012

This book is perfect for me because it covers all of the types of welding that you might use around the house/farm and also as a profession if that is where you are headed. The author uses plain language that is easy to understand and there are plenty of pictures to show you what he is writing about. I have other welding books, but if I only wanted one book, this would be it. Everything is there that I need to do some solid work.

I am still in welding school right now just finished stick and moving on to mig and I found this book very helpful but so many pictures it was hard to actually learn if I was traveling at the right speeds and to see what a good weld actually looks like I showed my teacher and he said it was a decent find but once I learned what he taught me the book was really just something to add to the collection

Nothing beats experience in the field so if you are expecting to pick up a book and walk into a shop stacking dimes, think again. However, if you are looking for a great reference book that serves as a field guide you can frequent if in need, this does the job.

Don't be fooled by the title -this book is for anyone learning to weld or improve there skills. I own or have read most books on welding aimed at the beginner and non-professional or hobbyist and while most are a waste of paper, this one, along with (How To Weld (Motorbooks Workshop)), is at the top of my list. It is clearly written, with enough detail to get you pointed in the right direction. I believe that learning to weld with just written instruction would severely handicap persons efforts, but through a combination of these two books and the large amount of video instruction now available online, a beginner can make a very good start if there are no personal instruction available to them.The one caveat is that, along with How To Weld, both books try to put in so much information on different techniques that skip some areas. For instance, there is no mention of aluminum wire feed welding with a spool gun. The only mention of aluminum welding is in the TIG section.If you are looking for introductory books on welding, you won't go wrong with this one.

This is the best overall book I own regarding welding or metal working in general. I started welding 8 months ago. I took a class too at the local votech school. This book filled in the gaps in my knowledge. Some of the other books I bought were too narrow in scope, such as specifically focused on car restoration.

Great book. Down to earth that I use for reference. Wish after reading it and learning a lot, it had more tables and reference data. I end up looking elsewhere for that, but it was a great book to learn from.

I haven't welded since high school over 40 years ago. I recently purchased a welder for my home shop and needed a good refresher on the details and techniques of a good weld. This book is very well laid out, with a good mix of written and pictorial descriptions to get me back on track. I have a friend who does much more welding than I do, and he actually borrowed it because he said it had some good techniques that he would benefit by.

I like this book, I really do. However, it is not perfect. Parts of it are really well done and parts of it are....well, a little confusing..?? Overall, the general look and feel of the book are excellent. The paper is high quality, slick and glossy. Book is well laid-out and the images are well done. The images are a mixture of black/white and color, and a mix of photos and line art. I could find no real errors of fact or mislabeled photos or incorrect image citations. So, overall there is a lot to like about this book.The problems....Well, maybe its just a matter of strange subjects in the book that don't seem to really belong. The book is titled "Farm and Workshop WELDING"..."Everything You Need to Know to Weld, Cut, and Shape Metal"... So, maybe you can understand why I am perplexed by a section on thermally "welding" plastics..?? And another on the procedure for drilling and tapping holes..?? How about how to sharpen twist drills..?? There is also a nice section on Blacksmithing and another on soldering copper wire..?? I guess you could argue that Blacksmithing can be used to "weld" metals together (although it's a bit of a reach considering the welding equipment available today..). And of course soldering copper wire would correctly be called joining metal (although not welding..). So, these 'additions' to the text seem just a little odd to me.In any event, even the odd sections listed are very well done. I enjoyed reading them (well maybe not the section on plastics..), and the section on blacksmithing was indeed very interesting. I found the text to be nicely laid-out and easy to read and understand. There is a lot of valid (and valuable..) information in the book as well. There is a decent index and several appendices that are useful too. I particularly enjoyed the sections on GMAW (MIG..) and GTAW (TIG..). Both of these were very well done and presented viewpoints on some things that I had not previously considered. In reality, this book is one of two that I have found to be almost indispensable. The other one, How To Weld (Motorbooks Workshop) is just as well done and covers the subject in an excellent manner as well.If you are looking for a good general descriptive book on the welding disciplines with generous images and easy to understand text and explanations, this one will satisfy you. So, four stars for a good book with a lot of information. Without the superfluous plastic stuff, it would definitely by five stars.

Great resource. With some supplementation from YouTube and the web, this is my main resource as I teach myself stick welding. Farm focused but the information is useful to anyone learning welding, of any kind.

Just what I needed to get started. I bought it on the recommendation of a YouTuber called Maximus Ironthumper, who says it's a book he keeps going back to. The books illustrations are a mixture of line drawings and photos and the books content covers all types of welding, including soldering and welding plastics. There are some extra chapters on "Taps and Die"s, "Drill Sharpening" and "Basic Blacksmithing"; but my guess is that these chapters are an introduction to the other books in this series.

Very helpful

contains a wide variety of information on many welding types, though the British colloquialisms can go over my head.

This is a great book for anyone starting out in welding, Full of common sense approaches to safety and use of all types of welding equipment with a great sense of humour from the author, Not a textbook manual but as it says aimed at the farm and workshop welder.