Reads like "scab' work to me Superflux... I read you loud and clear regarding the interaction of crafts to get the job done correctly but nowadays more than ever, there's an ever increasing amount of work going on where these "rules of the road" do not exist on those types of work sites sadly enough!!! And I'm not going to get into a long winded diatribe about how engineering wise, the whole darn action sounds like another typical clusterf@ck which is exactly what it is!!!
According to AWS A3.0 Joe, Lawrence is correct but, I understand what you're saying with respect to the origins of the term called "slugging" since it did become the word used from the type of practices typically described by so-called welders, and associated personnel during the construction of many types of WWII maritime vessels and obviously before that!
Thank goodness for QA/QC as well as sound engineeering practices these days, otherwise this practice would still be as widespread as it was back in the day when many folks looked the other way to "giterdone" and back then the widest used excuse was: "Don't you know that there's a war going on?" At least this is what a long time AWS member here in Pittsburgh describes the way the environment was back when he was welding a lot of the huge components together in the Philadelphia shipyards which is where he ended up after being caught with has butt hanging out as were the rest of the service personnel of our Armed forces when the Japanese decided that they would have an easy time kicking our butts in the Pacific by sneak attacking us at Pearl Harbor... How little did they know with the exception of Admiral Yamamoto, that they were about to commit a grave error in awaking the sleeping giant known to them as THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and set the stage for the development of the GREATEST FIGHTING FORCE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!!
NONE OTHER THAN THE US NAVY AND THE US MARINES AS THEY KICKED THEIR BUTTS ALL THE WAY BACK TO OKINAWA WHERE WE THEN DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE BEST TO NUKE THEM INTO SUBMISSION IN THEIR HOME ISLANDS WHICH IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO TO THESE FRIGGIN TALIBAN EXCEPT INSTEAD, JUST LIKE THE RUSSIANS ARE DOING IN CHECHNYA AND GEORGIA, WE SHOULD "MOAB" THE CRAP OUT OF THEM, and start another weapons production line similar to the way we increased production of the Patriot missile system which without Israeli help, would have ended up being a really screwed up theatre defense system instead of what ti has evolved into today...
Wow! I was hoping that I wouldn't get carried away here but as usual, I went off course again!!! Oh well what are ya gonna do??? :) :) :) Anywho, that's what I heard from this gem of an elder Gentleman from back in the days of WWII.
Respectfully,
Henry